Head: Prof. dr hab. Anna Kwiatkowska
Staff/Researchers: dr hab. Joanna Mizielińska, dr hab. Piotr Szarota, dr hab. Kuba Kryś, dr Agata Stasińska
Research Themes:
- Psychology and Culture (prof. dr hab. Anna Kwiatkowska, dr hab. Piotr Szarota)
Research areas: Psychology of acculturation; personal, social and cultural identity; pro-ecological attitudes; cultural models of love and dating; non-verbal communication; cultural patterns of emotional expression; social history.
Ongoing grant:
- The role of culture in perception and interpretation of smiles” (Kyoto University, Japan; lead: P. Szarota)
- Well-being and development of societies (dr hab. Kuba Kryś)
Research areas: Positive cross-cultural psychology; macropsychology, development of societies, well-being; emotions.
Ongoing grants:
- OPUS – 2020/37/B/HS6/03142 – Bridging Psychology with Societal Development Science: Fifty Countries Research into Folk Theories of Societal Development (Lead: K. Kryś),
- SONATA BIS – 2020/38/E/HS6/00357 – Ideal Types of Well-Being – Over Fifty Countries Research Into Culturally Sensitive “National Accounts of Well-Being” (Lead: K. Kryś)
- Gender and queer studies (dr hab. Joanna Mizielińska, dr Agata Stasińska)
Research areas: Cultural representations of gender, body and sexuality; new forms of family and intimate relationships; families of choice; new kinships and queer kinship; parenthood of LGBTIQ+ persons.