Zea Szebeni

Zea Szebeni is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki, where Szebeni completed both undergraduate and graduate training. Szebeni's work centres on collective psychological ownership, intergroup relations, and immigration attitudes, with a recurring focus on how majority and minority groups stake territorial and epistemic claims over national identity. Much of this research draws on the Hungarian and Finnish contexts, including studies of welfare chauvinism, diaspora attitudes toward the Russia-Ukraine war, and the social psychology of misinformation and fake news belief. Szebeni has also contributed to the study of populist visual communication, examining how figures such as Viktor Orbán construct authenticity and emotional engagement through social media.