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zan.lep@ff.uni-lj.si
Cabinet
125
Department of Psychology
Asst. Prof. Dr. Žan Lep
Žan Lep is an assistant professor in social psychology and a scientific associate with a background in developmental psychology. He teaches social and economic psychology subjects at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he also graduated, and conducts his research at the Centre for Applied Epistemology, Educational Research Institute. He is the head of the Social Psychology and Policy Lab, the Chair of Social Psychology, and the deputy head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Ljubljana.
His research focuses on motivational and cognitive underpinnings of behaviour and decision-making broadly related to civic participation, politics, money, and health – issues that can help us understand complex social phenomena.
Regularly, he publishes in national and international scientific journals and edited volumes, serves in organisational and programme committees of scientific conferences, and contributes as a reviewer for numerous journals and awards. He is a member of several scientific associations and an alumnus of the Junior Researcher Programme, where he also led his research project. He (co-)edited two scientific monographs, published over 40 journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, and is active on the European Journal of Psychology Open editorial board. The University of Ljubljana awarded him a Special commendation for young higher education teachers and staff for his research and teaching achievements.
He believes that scientific findings can and should contribute to positive social changes. Therefore, he finds it necessary to share them with different audiences through talks, workshops, and media appearances. He thrives in interdisciplinary research groups and participates in several national and international research projects. He is a management committee member of a COST project and the leader of bilateral cooperation on political identities and their link with prosocial and pro-environmental behaviour in youth with colleagues from the University of Banja Luka.
Selected publications
Lep, Ž. (2024). Pristrasnost ishoda i pristrasnost propuštanja: nije uvek sve dobro kada se dobro završi. In K. Damnjanović (Ed.), Zbirka kognitivnih pristrasnosti i pogrešaka (pp. 347–368). Heliks. https://doi.org/10.31212/kogn.prist.2024.lep.18
Babnik, K., & Lep, Ž. (2024). Psychological factors and determinants of sustainable behavior : models, mechanisms, and socialization agents. In T. Žiljak, P. Ristord, N. Alfirević in J. Pavičić (Eds.), Lifelong learning for green skills and sustainable development: Southern European perspectives (pp. 125–144). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66947-7_11
Zupančič, M., & Lep, Ž. (2024). Predicting satisfaction with money management and life satisfaction in parents of emerging adult students. Journal of adult development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-024-09476-9
Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S.A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., Cichocka, A., Douglas, K. M., Rand, D. G., van der Linden, S., Cikara, M., Finkel, E. J., Druckman, J. N., Wohl, M. J. A., Petty, R. E., Tucker, J. A., Shariff, A., Gelfand, M., … Lep, Ž., … Van Bavel, J. J., & Willer, R. (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625, 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06840-9
Alfirević, N., Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, M., & Lep, Ž. (2023). The role of higher education and civic involvement in converting young adults’ social responsibility to prosocial behavior. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 2559. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29562-4
Zupančič, M., Poredoš, M., & Lep, Ž. (2023). Intergenerational model of financial satisfaction and parent-child financial relationship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(8), 2568–2591. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231153352
Lep, Ž., & Zupančič, M. (2023). Civic identity in emerging adulthood: Validation of the civic identity status scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 39(2), 114–123. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000696
Ruggeri, K., Panin, A., Vdovic, M., Većkalov, B., Abdul-Salaam, N., Achtenberg, J., Akil, C., Amatya, J., Amatya, K., Andersen, T., Aquino, S., Arunasalam, A., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Dahl Askelund, A., Ayacaxli, N., Bagheri Sheshdeh, A., Bailey, A., Barea Arroyo, P., Basulto Mejia, G., Benvenuti, … Lep, Ž., … & Garcia-Garzon, E. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 1386–1397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w
Lep, Ž., Zupančič, M. & Poredoš, M. (2022). Saving of freshmen and their parents in Slovenia: Saving motives and links to parental financial socialization. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 43, 756–773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-021-09789-x
Lep, Ž., & Kirbiš, A. (2022). Political orientation in youth beyond the left-right divide: Testing a three-factor model of political orientation and its relatedness to personal values. Journal of Youth Studies, 25(8), 1088–1107. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1939285
Boštjančič, E., & Lep, Ž. (Eds.) (2022). Kako (še) spodbujati zaposlene: nov izbor psiholoških pristopov od A do Ž [How (else) to motivate employees: A new selection of psychological approaches]. Založba Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789617128529
Lep, Ž., & Hacin Beyazoglu, K. (Eds.) (2020). Psihologija pandemije: posamezniki in družba v času koronske krize [Psychology of a pandemic: Individuals and the society in times of corona crisis]. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789610603979