Marta Marchlewska

Dr. hab Marta Marchlewska, prof. IP PAN

STANOWISKO/POSITION

Członek  Ośrodka Badań Psychologicznych   /Member of the Center for Psychological Research

ZAINTERESOWANIA BADAWCZE/RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social &  Political Psychology

Head of the Political Cognition Lab – Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences
(http://politicalcognition.psych.pan.pl/pl/), lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology (University of Warsaw), associate of the Political Psychology Lab based at the University of Kent (UK). Specialist in the field of psychometrics and quantitative data analysis.
She has acquired broad experience by collaborating with a variety of different academic
(Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw; Centre for Social Cognitive Studies, Jagiellonian University; Political Psychology Lab, University of Kent), as well as corporate institutions (Maison& Partners, ARC). In her projects she concentrates mainly on the functions that different forms of psychological threat play in the way of perceiving the world of politics. She draws particular attention to personality variables: self-esteem, narcissism, in-group identification methods, and links them to political preferences: support for democracy, populist policy or belief  in conspiracy theories relating to politics.

e-mail: mmarchlewska@psych.pan.pl

WYKSZTAŁCENIE/EDUCATION
  • Ph.D. , Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. (10/2017) Doctoral dissertation
    Doctoral Program, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 06/2015 – 07/2015
    ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S
  • 10/2008 – 07/2013
    M.A., Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland (Psychometrics & Work and Organization Psychology)
DOŚWIADCZENIE BADAWCZE/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2019 – present
Director of Political Cognition Lab, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences

a. Principal Investigator of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY research grant: „Polish identity in the 21st century. Types of national identification, their causes and consequences” (2022-2024), Budget of the project: 1714305 PLN

b. Principal Investigator in the National Science Centre OPUS research grant: „The role of emotion and stress regulation processes in the endorsement of conspiracy theories” (2020- 2024), Budget of the project:1 123 440 PLN

c. Principal Investigator in the NORFACE programme (Horizon 2020): „Threat, identity, and dissent: Understanding and addressing political polarization in European democracies” (2020- 2023), Budget of the project:  1 440 076 PLN

d. Principal Investigator of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education DIALOG research grant:”Civic participation in Poland: determinants, consequences and methods of social activation” (2019-2021), Budget of the project: 1 130 578 PLN

2019 – 2022
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw Investigator of the Polish National Science Center General
Grant: HARMONIA (PI: Paulina Górska): ”Collective action as a dynamic phenomenon,,

2015 – 2019
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw Investigator of the Polish National Science Center General Grant OPUS (PI: Mirosław Kofta):
“Control deprivation, (inter)groups relations, and political cognition”

2015 – 2018
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw Principal Investigator of the Polish National Science Center General Grant PRELUDIUM:
”Autobiographical memory in the service of the self – on the role of visual perspective in retrieving self-threatening events among individuals with genuine and narcissistic self esteem,,

2016 – 2017
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw & School of Psychology, University of Kent
Principal Investigator of the Polish National Science Center General Grant ETIUDA:
”Autobiographical memory in the service of the self,,

2014 – 2015
Centre for Social Cognitive Studies, Jagiellonian University Investigator of the Polish National Science Center General Grant MAESTRO (PI: Małgorzata Kossowska):
”Motivational, affective, and cognitive sources of knowledge formation process: Implications for intrapersonal, interpersonal and intergroup phenomena,,

2012 – 2014
Centre for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw Investigator in:
(1) the Foundation for Polish Science FOCUS Grant (PI: Michał Bilewicz): „Political and social communication: psychological and linguistic underpinnings,,
(2) the Polish National Science Center General Grant (PI: Aleksandra Cichocka): „Effects of individual and collective control on in-group identification,,
(3) the Faculty of Psychology Research fund (PI: Aleksandra Cichocka): „Self-esteem and ideology.”

2010 – 2012
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Research Assistant in the Faculty of Psychology Research fund
(PI: Ewa Czerniawska):”Visual perspective in autobiographical memory”.

DOŚWIADCZENIE DYDAKTYCZNE /TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring 2019/2020 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
– Political Psychology (seminar)

Autumn 2019/2020 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
– On the underpinnings of out-group prejudice and ways to reduce it (seminar with elements of training)
– Quantitative research methods (seminar)

Spring 2018/2019 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
– Political Psychology (seminar)
– On the underpinnings of out-group prejudice and ways to reduce it (seminar with elements of training)

Autumn 2018/2019 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
On the underpinnings of out-group prejudice and ways to reduce it (seminar with elements of training)

Spring 2017/2018 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
Introduction to Psychology (seminar)

Autumn 2016/2017 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology,
On the underpinnings of out-group prejudice and ways to reduce it (seminar with elements of training)

Spring 2015/2016 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, Psychology for teachers (seminar & e-learning course)

Spring 2014/2015 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, Introduction to Psychology (seminar)

Spring 2013/2014 University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw,
How to measure behavior and mental functioning? Methodology with elements of psychometrics, use of computers in statistics (practical workshop).

PUBLIKACJE/PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
  • 2020: Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Researchers
  • 2017: „START” Fellowship from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) for the young researchers.
  • 2016: Minister of Science and Higher Education Doctoral Scholarship for Excellence in Academic Achievements
  • 2016: Etiuda Scholarship – Polish National Science Center Travel Grant (University of Kent, the U.K)
  • 2014: European Association of Social Psychology Graduate Travel Grant (University of Kent, the U.K)
  • 2013 – 2016: Doctoral Student Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • Polskie Stowarzyszenie Psychologii Społecznej (PSPS)
  • European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
  • International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)