Gabriela Czarnek is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University. She is also a Research Affiliate na Massachussets Institute of Technology. Gabriela earned her PhD at Jagiellonian University under the supervision of Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska and Prof. Michael Richter in 2018. Her research focuses on political and science-related beliefs, including how people form these beliefs, respond to information and persuasive communication, and how ideology shapes attitudes toward science and scientists, climate change, and public policy. Her work combines experiments, survey data analysis, psychophysiological measures, and automated text analysis.
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Social and Political Psychology
Projects
- Updating beliefs regarding science and politics: The role of motivation and information processing strategies. SONATA grant (2022-2026, #UMO-2021/43/D/HS6/03353) from the National Science Centre.
- Human-AI dialogues in climate change communication. Project in collaboration with prof. David Rand and researchers from MIT and Cornell University. Funded by The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative.
- Eliciting willingness to pay for domestic and international climate change policies. Project coordinate by Hendrik Vrijburg with researchers from Leiden University, University College Dublin, and Jagiellonian University, funded by Una Europa – Kiem grant.
- The role of doubt in belief updating: a motivational perspective. NAWA BEKKER (2023-2025, #BPN/BEK/2022/1/00295) to fund stay at Massachussets Institute of Technology.
- Well-being in older age: investigation using automatic content analysis of social media texts. MOBILNOŚĆ PLUS grant (2018-2019, #1614/MOB/V/2017/0) received from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland. Project is carried out at Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University
Publications:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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