Author

My professional passions are moral psychology and experimental philosophy. I am primarily interested in how we perceive our and other people’s morality. Moreover, I study moral judgments.

course of education

2009-2012

University of Silesia
Faculty of Social Sciences
Full-time Doctoral Program

OBTAINED TITLE:
Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude

2005-2010

University of Silesia
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
Full-time Masters Program – Psychology

OBTAINED TITLE:
Master of Psychology, magna cum laude

2004-2009

University of Silesia
Faculty of Social Sciences
Full-time Masters Program – Philosophy

OBTAINED TITLE:
Master of Philosophy, magna cum laude

EXPERIENCE

2022-2024

Postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (USA): https://neuroaesthetics.med.upenn.edu/

2022

Principal investigator of the scientific NAWA grant "Moral thinking and unethical behaviors". Cooperation with Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2022 – now

Institute of Psychology at the University of Silesia, research and teaching staff member at the position of professor at the university

2018

Principal investigator of the scientific grant “Moral Coherence: the relationship between people’s behavior and their moral views and emotions – pilot studies” carried out as a part of MINIATURA 1 National Science Center in Poland

2018-2022

Participant in the scientific grant “The importance of individual differences in explaining cognitive processes underlying the foreign language effect in judgments and decisions” headed by Michał Białek, PhD (Kozminski University), financed in SONATA 13 National Science Center

2017-2020

Participant in the scientific grant “Moral psychology and partner violence – Phase 2” led by prof. Maria L. Vecina (Complutense University of Madrid) funded by Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Spain)

2016-2018

Deputy Director for Didactics at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Silesia

2013-2022

Institute of Psychology at the University of Silesia, research and teaching at the position of assistant professor in the Department of General Psychology

2012-now

Członek zespołu naukowo-dydaktycznego kierowanego przez prof. Philipa Zimbardo (Stanford University) w Projekcie Bohaterskiej Wyobraźni (Heroic Imagination Project)

2010-2013

Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia, research and teaching assistant in the Department of General Psychology

the most prominent internships and foreign visits

2022-2024

USA

University of Pennsylvania

2022

Spain

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2019

USA

University of Pennsylvania

2018, 2017

Italy

University of Verona

2015

Czech Republic

National Institute of Mental Health

2012

Spain

Complutense University of Madrid

2012

Spain

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

2012

Greece

University of Athens

2011

Turkey

Bahcesehir University

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

I have participated in over 80 local and international scientific conferences.

22-24.09.2023

Congress of the Polish Association of Social Psychology (Lodz)

"How to change others' moral judgments?"

30.06-04.07.2023

EASP (Kraków)

"The limits of the primacy of morality hypothesis" (with Kasia Stasiuk, Romuald Polczyk, Józef Maciuszek), "Mechanisms underlying negative bias to people with facial anomalies" (with Clifford I. Workman, Noha El Toukhy, Anjan Chatterjee)

26-28.05.2023

"Zabawa" (Influence Research Team Conference) (Krakow)

"Moral Conformism in the Online World" (with Dries Bostyn, Dominika Wojciechowska)

16-19.02.2022

SPSP (San Francisco)

"Prisoners do not assess themselves as immoral"

09-13.02.2021

SPSP (virtual)

"People do not see themselves in a better light when drunk" (with Paweł Bianga, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Sam Gosling), "Moral hypocrites are judged as less immoral in the virtual world than moral hypocrites in the real world" (with Natalia Marońska, Artur Domurat)

19-21.11.2020

Psychonomics (virtual)

"The Moral Superadditivity Effect Among Children" (with Artur Domurat), "The influence of alcohol on moral decisions" (with Katarzyna Pypno, Michał Białek, Bertram Gawronski)

15-18.11.2019

JDM (Montreal)

"Foreign language reduces sensitivity to consequences and norms without affecting general action tendencies" (with Michał Białek, Bertram Gawronski)

14-17.11.2019

Psychonomics (Montreal)

"Moral superadditivity effect" (with Michał Białek)

AWARDS

  • 2023 – Individual award of the first degree granted by the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific activity
  • 2022 – NAWA Scholarship
  • 2021 – "International Registration Award recipient for the 2021 Convention", Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 2020 – Individual award of the first degree granted by the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific activity
  • 2019 – Laureate of the "Mobility Program" financed by the Rector of the University of Silesia
  • 2017 – Team Award of the third degree awarded by the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific activity
  • 2015 & 2014 – The distinction in the “Student Laurel” competition of the University of Silesia in the category “Students’ Friend”, the award granted by students for the best lecturers
  • 2014 – “Graduate with Passion” University of Silesia
  • 2013 – Individual award of the third degree granted by the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific activity
  • 2012 – Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the best 100 Ph.D. students for outstanding achievements in science
  • 2011 – Conference Scholarship, Foundation for Polish Science
  • 2010 – The distinction of the Rector of the University of Silesia for graduates
  • 2010 & 2009 – Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for achievements in science
  • 2009 – Distinction of the Rector of the University of Silesia for active students

Projekt finansowany przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki, konkurs Miniatura 1, numer: 2017/01/X/HS6/01332.

Project financed by National Science Center, Poland, Miniatura 1, number: 2017/01/X/HS6/01332.

Narodowe Centrum Nauki