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.
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
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
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
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)
E-mail:
mariola.paruzel-czachura@us.edu.plRead about my publication here:
Research Gate Silesian academia Google scholar Institute of Psychology US Penn Center of NeuroaestheticsProjekt 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.