Zea Szebeni

Zea Szebeni is a researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki, where Szebeni completed both undergraduate and graduate education. Szebeni's research interests encompass collective psychological ownership, collective epistemic ownership, intergroup relations, and the psychological dimensions of national identity and immigration attitudes. Szebeni has published extensively on populism, nationalism, and territorial ownership across Central and Eastern European contexts, with particular focus on how psychological ownership relates to welfare chauvinism, identity construction, and attitudes toward immigrants and diaspora communities.