Research Team

Natasza
Kosakowska-Berezecka

Jennifer Bosson

Joseph Vandello

Deborah Best

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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Main collaborator

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Full Professor in the Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). Her main area of research interest are cultural cues fostering gender equality within societies across the world. She also conducts research on backlash against communal men and universality of precarious manhood.

(PhD, 2000, University of Texas at Austin) is a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, USA. Most of her research examines the contents and consequences of widespread beliefs about sex and gender. Current projects look at the implications of precarious manhood for men’s and women’s occupational outcomes, and the effects of hostile and benevolent sexism on women’s cognitive and physiological outcomes.

(PhD, 2000, University of Illinois) is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, USA. He is a social and cultural psychologist who studies topics related to gender, honor, aggression, perceptions of disadvantaged groups, and morality. Much of his recent work aims to understand how people understand manhood and the implications of this understanding for health, well-being, work, interpersonal relationships, and conflict.

(PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1981) Is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University. A developmental psychologist by training, one line of her research focuses on children’s cognitive development and memory strategies. Also a cross-cultural psychologist, she has explored the nature and development of gender, racial, and age stereotypes and attitudes of children and adults around the world.

Tomasz Besta

Paweł Jurek

Saba Safdar

Anna Wlodarczyk

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Research Team

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Works at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His research focuses on personality and social psychology, especially collective action, crowd dynamics, and intergroup relations. He studies identity fusion and strong group identification among women’s rights advocates, political activists, participants of religious events and music festivals, football fans, and charity volunteers.

(PhD, 2008, University of Gdansk) works as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Psychology at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His main area of research interest is psychological assessment, research methods in social science, and psychometrics. He also conducts research on employee’s competencies and organizational behaviors.

She is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Guelph (Canada) and Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research. She earned her PhD from York University in 2002. Her research focuses on cross-cultural and minority adaptation, well-being, and cultural diversity.

(PhD, 2015, University of the Basque Country, Spain) is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile). Her research focuses on coping and emotion regulation, posttraumatic growth, political psychology, social identity, intergroup relations, and gender, with particular interest in the intersection of gender, culture, and social norms.

Dr Magdalena Zawisza

Magdalena Żadkowska

Jurand Sobiecki

Anna Wlodarczyk

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Research Team

Research Team

Research Team

She is an academic psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, with a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on gender, sexism, and advertising. She is a co-editor of a Routledge handbook, review editor at Frontiers, runs a research consultancy on responsible advertising, and publishes widely.

(PhD) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Gdansk, Poland. She is a researcher whose methodology is based on quantitative methods. She studies topics related to gender, intimate relationships and family. In the context of cultural differences, migration dynamics and workplace environments she focuses on couple’s relationship and works on comparative analysis of gender stereotypes and challenges for femininity and masculinity.

PhD student; University of Gdansk; religiosity, gender, evolutionary psychology, cognitive dissonance. Psychologist and medical biologist working on broadening scientific toolkit by being responsible for statistical analyses, creating scientific tools, and writing publications.

His research interests include psychometrics and statistical methods in social sciences. More psychologically, he studies the motive of self-enhancement, especially narcissism in its various manifestations.

Agata Bizewska

Aleksandra Głobińska

Andy Milewski

Aleksandra Szulc

Resarch Assistant

Resarch Assistant

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Resarch Assistant

Mariya Amiroslanova

Olga Żychlińska

Piotr Piotrowski

Stanislav Romanov

Resarch Assistant

Resarch Assistant

Resarch Assistant

Resarch Assistant