Social and Applied Psychology Research Team

Krystyna Adamska, serves as Associate Professor, University of Gdansk, she also serves as the Head of Ethics Committee krystyna.adamska@ug.edu.pl Krystyna currently works in the Institute of Psychology, at the University of Gdansk in the position of Associate Professor. She is interested in organizational and social psychology. She defined the conditions under which the organization operates rationally. Her research questions addressed the psychological contract in organization, conditions of willingness to speak up, and determinants of organizational cynicism and self-censorship. These issues are related to employees' agency in organizations. Her current research interests focus on the relationship between individual autonomy and emotions. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3605

Paweł Jurek, serves as Associate Professor. He takes over the administration office and serves as the Director of Institute of Psychology, Social Science Department, University of Gdansk pawel.jurek@ug.edu.pl Paweł currently works at the Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, in the position of Associate Professor. He is the author or co- author of original measurement methods (e.g. Job Satisfaction Scale – SAT20, Occupation Personality Questionnaire, Multidimension Self- Competence Scale), as well as adaptation of foreign tools (e.g. Stanford- Binet Intelligence Scales, Delaying Gratification Inventory, Forms of Employees Silence and publications in work and organization psychology. His main research interests include psychometric and research methods in psychology. Paweł teaches methodology and is an expert on “R” program. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-3941

Joanna Różycka – Tran, serves as Associate Professor, she takes over the administration position as vice-Dean of the Social Science Department, University of Gdansk joanna.rozycka-tran@ug.edu.pl Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna-Rozycka-Tran Joanna currently works at the Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, in the position of Associate Professor. Her scientific research concerns social and cross-cultural psychology, including social beliefs and worldviews (also religious and supernatural beliefs), both at the individual and national/cultural levels, such as: social axioms (on the epistemological dimension of culture e.g. perceived antagonism in social relations) and values, attitudes and psychological well-being (on the axiological dimension of culture). Her interests concern also Southeast Asia culture: she conducted many indigenous research in Vietnam. She published three scientific monographs and over 30 original scientific articles, in prestigious journals.  She also popularizes knowledge by writing articles in the popular-science press and during media presentations. She is working with numerous academic centers and publishes articles with scientists from all over the world. She worked on cross- cultural aspects of metacognitive self in research project supervised by Hanna Brycz. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1131-3910

Agnieszka Fanslau, serves as Assistant Professor in Social Psychology Division, University of Gdansk agnieszka.fanslau@ug.edu.pl Agnieszka was  interested in values, temptations and self- regulation, during her PhD research. She worked in research project on metacognitive self – longitudinal studies, supervised by Hanna Brycz. Her current scientific interests are humor and language (irony use in particular) from cross – cultural as well as individual differences perspective. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3081-3235   Michał Olech, servs as Assistant Professor, University of Gdansk. michal.olech@ug.edu.pl Michał currently works at the Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, in the position of Assistant Professor. He is mathematician, expert in the field of data analysis in human resource management, psychometrics, and statistical methods. His scientific interests (differential equations and numerical methods dedicated to them) are successfully used in analytical work in the field of psychometrics and business intelligence. He has experience in the standardization of many diagnostic tests in the classical test theory and IRT. He took part in the process of validating the Polish version of the 5th edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. He was the main analyst and manager in over a dozen projects, the aim of which was, among others, to create innovative tools used in the recruitment and selection process and to design algorithms to support decisions about undertaking development activities. Currently he is a researcher and teacher in the Institute of Psychology of the University of Gdańsk and the Department of Psychology of the Medical University of Gdańsk. Michał specializes in working with the statistical computing environment R. He created and implemented a series of programming workshops in this language for academic staff and students. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3612-0568   Magdalena Wyszomirska – Góra, serves as assistant in Social Psychology Division at University of Gdansk. magdalena.wyszomirska-gora@ug.edu.pl Magdalena currently works in the Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, in the position of assistant. She is finishing her doctoral thesis about the role of metacognitive self in searching and processing social information. She worked in research project on metacognitive self supervised by Hanna Brycz. Her interest are: metacognition, social influence, and social interactions. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0236-767X

Adamska, K., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Jurek, P., & Konarski, R. (2022). Gender perspectives on self-censorship in organizations: The role of management position, procedural justice and organizational climate. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2838   Brycz, H., Atroszko, P., Wyszomirska-Góra, M., & A. Wright, R. (2021). The role of metacognition, type of feedback, and kind of incentives for motivation to learn. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 9(4), 316-327. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2021.107070   Szczepanik J. E., Brycz H., Kleka P., Fanslau A., Zarate C., Nugent A. (2020) Metacognition and emotion - How accurate perception of own biases relates to positive feelings and hedonic capacity, Consciousness and Cognition, 2020, vol. 82, s.1-10, DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2020.102936   Olech, M., Jurek, P., & Brycz, H. (2021). Perceived technostress while learning a new mobile technology: Do individual differences and the way technology is presented matter? Human Technology, 17(3), 197–212. https://doi.org/10.14254/1795-6889.2021.17-3.2   Różycka-Tran, J., Jurek, P., Olech, M., & Dmochowski, T. (2021). A Measurement Invariance Investigation of the Polish Version of the Dual Filial-Piety Scale (DFPS-PL): Student-Employee and Gender Differences in Filial Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology 12:713395. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713395