CHAIR STAFF
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Sękowski
Head of the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. He is author of 230 publications, among others the books Achievement of Gifted Students, Personality and Artistic Achievement of Music School Students, Personality-based Determinants of Attitudes towards the Disabled, and Psychology of Abilities: Current Research Trends. He has published in prestigious international scientific journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Science, High Ability Studies, Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, and Zeitschrift fűr Heilpädagogik. Currently, he holds the positions of Vice-chair of the Polish Psychological Society, Editor-in-chief of Przegląd Psychologiczny (Psychological Review), and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at KUL. As a Fulbright and Humboldt Fellow and a Kościuszko Fund Fellow, Professor Sękowski has been on placement in numerous foreign scientific institutions, among others in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. During the scholarship period, he conducted research at Yale University’s PACE Center (Investigating the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise) run by Prof. R.J. Sternberg and at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he co-operated with Prof. Kurt Heller. His scientific interests primarily concern giftedness and social attitudes towards disabled persons. For the last ten years, he has run training courses and workshops in psychology for gifted children and adults in Poland, Germany, and the USA.
Dr Waldemar Klinkosz, PhD
Dr Klinkosz conducts research in the psychology of individual differences with special focus on achievement, abilities, personality, and motivation of above-average or particularly gifted persons, also those with disabilities. He is interested in the methodology of psychology, in testing the psychometric properties of psychological tests translated in the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences, and working out norms for the translated tests. Dr Klinkosz has participated in comparative and inter-cultural studies coordinated by Professors R.R. McCrae and A. Terracciano, and by dr F. De Fruyt. He is author of the book "Sukces akademicki studentów niewidomych i słabo widzących a ich osobowość" [Academic Success of Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Their Personality]. He has published in Polish and foreign scientific journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Science, Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness.
Dr Beata Łubianka, PhD
Assistant at the Department of the Psychology of Individual Differences. In 2011 she defended a doctoral dissertation: “Psychological analysis of value systems in young people of various school achievements”. Her scientific interests are focused around issues of the preference of the value of gifted people and youthful idealism.
Weronika Augustynowicz, MA
Writes a PhD thesis entitled “Selected psychosocial correlates of high school achievements. Research in Poland and Ukraina”. She has graduated European Collegium of Polish and Ukrainian Universities. Her scientific interests concern social functioning, high achievements and social psychoprevention. She teaches social psychoprevention in a Chair of Social Psychoprevention.
Tomasz Knopik, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. The graduate of Akademia Artes Liberales. The main regions of his interests are: political psychology (analysis of Polish post-colonial discourse), psychology of individual differences (epistemological and psychological indications of wisdom and the ordinary evaluation), aesthetics (he writes a master’s thesis devoted to the primary of aesthetical experience in John Dewey’s captivation on the Faculty of Philosophy).
Barbara Cichy, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. In 2009 she earned her Masters degree for her thesis entitled “The educational techniques of parents and hope for the success among youth in the stage of late adolescence”. The main regions of her interests are psychology of individual differences, positive psychology (subjective quality of life of gifted people), art therapy. For the last two years, she has run workshops for children with ADHD.
Małgorzata Rachwał, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. Her scientific interestsconcern determinants of job satysfactionin reference to the prestige of occupation. Works with disabled children and youth.
Angelika Bąk, MA
Jakub Górecki, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. The graduate of Faculty of Law and Administration of Warszaw University and faculty of psychology of Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Educational psychologist. Social activist, member of the menagment board of a nongovernament organization. His scientific interests concentrate on psychology of abilities and humor. He is also interested in social differentiation problems. He gets psychological support from his wife and cat.
http://kul.academia.edu/JakubG%C3%B3recki
Agnieszka Mioduchowska, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. She works at the Family Assistance Center in Ryki as a consultant for people with disabilities in the project system "Program promoting active inclusion among people with disabilities and students leaving the institution and foster families". In addition, she works as a psychologist in the Foundation for People with Disabilities and socially excluded "TO BE" acting in Ryki and she’s a member of the Foundation. Her scientific interests include issues of creativity, structure I, psycho-transgression and internal dialogical activity.
ks. Marek Rudź, MA
Fr. Marek Rudz is a doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. In 2010 he earned his Masters degree for his thesis entitled “Personaity and Cognitive styles of Linguistically Gifted Persons.” His interests include psycholinguistics, glottodidactics, the psychology of intercultural differences as well as the psychosocial problems of the environment of the immigrant.
In the 2nd term of academic year 2008/09 he studied at University of Rome “La Sapienza” as a scholar of the Erasmus program.
Martyna Płudowska, MA
A doctorate student of the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences and a student of sociology, in 2011 defended her master’s thesis: Existential anxiety and fear in people with varied level of creativity. Her focus concentrates on creativity, contemporary social transformations and their consequences on the psychosocial functioning of the individuals.
Sylwia Gwiazdowska, MA
She graduated psychology at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, her master’s thesis: Achievement motivation of full time and part time workers and their personality, supervisor o. dr Waldemar Klinkosz.
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. Her scientific interests concentrate on the problems of families of gifted.
ks. Marek Szołdra, MA
Agata Kapeluszny, MA
A doctoral student in Psychology of Individual Differences Department. Interested in achievement motivation, the question of success, and interpersonal relationship.
Monika Niziołek, MA
A doctoral student at the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences.
A member of the committee for the development, implementation and execution of “The mental health program”. She works as a psychologist
in the hospital and the early intervention support. She leads a support group for foster families. Her scientific interests include attitudes towards people with disabilities, neuropsychology and psychiatry.
Olha Bilyakovska, MA
