Maria Lewicka - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1978 PhD, University of Warsaw, "Affective and descriptive forms of information organization in the process of social perception"
  
• 1993 Habilitation, University of Warsaw, "Actor or observer? Psychological mechanisms of deviations from rationality in colloquial reasoning"
  
• 2013 Professor title in social sciences (highest academic degree in Poland, awarded by President of Poland).
  
• Member and past Vice-Chairman of Psychology Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences
  
• Member of Advisory and Consultative Bodies of the Minister of Science and Higher Education: Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Units; Commission for the Group of Humanities and Social Sciences

Areas of scientific research:

Rationality of thought and action, processes of social evaluation, environmental psychology, psychology of people-place relations (theories of place, psychology of place, local identity, memory of place), human behavior in urban environments, cognitive maps of the environment, collective memory, social activity and passivity, social and cultural capital, social perception and intergroup relations.

2 books as author and 5 as co-editor, ca. 50 research articles including >20 in JCR journals, ca. 50 book chapters, popular articles, reviews, polemics, etc., almost 100 conference/school lectures, over 20 conferences (co)organized, 12 promoted doctorates.