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Kamil Izydorczak, Ph.D., is a psychologist.

His research interests focus on social psychology, with a particular emphasis on intergroup and interpersonal comparisons. He analyzes the mechanisms of dehumanization and polarization, investigating why we apply different standards when evaluating the behavior of our own group compared to that of outgroups. Methodology constitutes an important area of his work. He focuses on the development of open science practices and supports initiatives aimed at increasing the replicability of psychological research.

He is the Principal Investigator in a research project "Online interactions and their potential to reinforce social polarization" financed by Poland’s National Science Centre. He also conducted research on attitudes toward vaccinations as part of the project "MEDFAKE: Building trust in protective vaccinations using the latest communication and social influence tools."

He has published in international journals, including Nature, Nature: Human Behaviour, Royal Society: Open Science, Social Psychology, and Collabra: Psychology. He is also the author of a chapter in the monograph Vaccines and Vaccinations: A Psychological Perspective, edited by Professors Wojciech Kulesza, Dariusz Doliński, and Tomasz Grzyb from SWPS University, published by Springer.

He is a member of the Polish Association of Social Psychology and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.

Beyond his academic work, he collaborates with Polish popular science magazines, for example Ja, My, Oni and appears in the media as an expert in psychology.

At SWPS University, he serves as the Program Coordinator for the Psychology in English program offered in Wrocław. He also teaches courses in social psychology and introduction to social psychology (in both Polish and English), as well as critical analysis of psychological literature and empirical research.