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Lazar Stankov is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their body of work is located predominantly within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. Throughout their career, they have explored a variety of topics linking social behavior, cognitive processes, and political attitudes.

Their research frequently addresses themes in social and intergroup psychology, cognitive abilities and testing, as well as terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence. Additional areas of interest include cognitive science and mapping, child and animal learning development, COVID-19 and mental health, and behavioral health and interventions.

Stankov's recent scholarly publications include:

  • "To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • "I Choose to Opt-Out of Answering: Individual Differences in Giving Up Behaviour on Cognitive Tests," 2022, in Journal of Intelligence
  • "The Psychology of COVID-19 Booster Hesitancy, Acceptance and Resistance in Australia," 2023, in Vaccines
  • "From social conservatism and authoritarian populism to militant right-wing extremism," 2021, in Personality and Individual Differences
  • "Sociopsychological correlates of militant extremist beliefs in a postconflict society: The importance of ethnocentrism and quality of interethnic contacts," 2020, in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple publications with Stankov include Sabina Kleitman, Jihyun Lee, Matthew D. Blanchard, Marvin K. H. Law, and Eugene Aidman.

They have published in several venues, most prominently in the Journal of Intelligence, which accounts for five of their publications. Other venues include PLoS ONE, Vaccines, Frontiers in Psychology, and Personality and Individual Differences.

Best Publications

  • Emotional intelligence: in search of an elusive construct.

    Michaela Davies;Lazar Stankov;Richard D. Roberts

  • The role of individual differences in the accuracy of confidence judgments.

    Gerry Pallier;Rebecca Wilkinson;Vanessa Danthiir;Sabina Kleitman

  • Confidence: A better predictor of academic achievement than self-efficacy, self-concept and anxiety?

    Lazar Stankov;Jihyun Lee;Wenshu Luo;David J. Hogan

  • Self-confidence and metacognitive processes

    Sabina Kleitman;Lazar Stankov

  • Complexity, Metacognition, and Fluid Intelligence

    Lazar Stankov

  • Confidence: The best non-cognitive predictor of academic achievement?

    Lazar Stankov;Suzanne Morony;Yim Ping Lee

  • Unforgiving Confucian culture: A breeding ground for high academic achievement, test anxiety and self-doubt?

    Lazar Stankov

  • Self-confidence and performance on tests of cognitive abilities

    Lazar Stankov;John D. Crawford

  • Predicting achievement: Confidence vs self-efficacy, anxiety, and self-concept in Confucian and European countries

    Suzanne Morony;Sabina Kleitman;Yim Ping Lee;Lazar Stankov;Lazar Stankov

  • Patterns of thinking in militant extremism

    Gerard Saucier;Laura Geuy Akers;Seraphine Shen-Miller;Goran Kneževié

  • Aging, attention, and intelligence.

    Lazar Stankov

  • Confidence and cognitive test performance

    Lazar Stankov;Jihyun Lee

  • Individual differences in speed of mental processing and human cognitive abilities: Toward a taxonomic model

    Richard D Roberts;Lazar Stankov

  • Non-cognitive predictors of academic achievement: Evidence from TIMSS and PISA

    Jihyun Lee;Lazar Stankov;Lazar Stankov

  • Confidence judgments in studies of individual differences

    Lazar Stankov;John D. Crawford

  • Age differences in the realism of confidence judgements: A calibration study using tests of fluid and crystallized intelligence

    John D. Crawford;Lazar Stankov

  • Attention and intelligence

    Lazar Stankov

  • Ecological and person-oriented aspects of metacognitive processes in test-taking

    Sabina Kleitman;Lazar Stankov

  • Human Abilities Revealed Through Auditory Tests

    Lazar Stankov;John L. Horn

  • Conservatism and cognitive ability

    Lazar Stankov

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Saucier
Gerard Saucier University of Oregon
Gerard J. Fogarty
Gerard J. Fogarty University of Southern Queensland
Gregory J. Boyle
Gregory J. Boyle University of Melbourne
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson University of California, Berkeley
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
Raymond B. Cattell
Raymond B. Cattell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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