Profile

Magdalena Kękuś is a psychologist and clinical sexologist. Her research focuses primarily on memory distortions in forensic and legal contexts, with particular emphasis on memory conformity, the misinformation effect, eyewitness memory, and mechanisms underlying susceptibility to misinformation. She is also interested in intrusive sexual thoughts and other phenomena related to human sexuality.

Research Projects

In addition to teaching at SWPS University in Kraków, she serves as a researcher at Jagiellonian University’s Applied Memory Research Laboratory, where she is the Principal Investigator for the project “Mechanisms, determinants and methods of reducing the memory conformity effect,” funded by the National Science Centre under the PRELUDIUM 20 scheme.

Her current research also explores innovative approaches to studying memory conformity, including the use of virtual reality and eye-tracking technology.

Research Collaborations

She has established international research collaborations with researchers and research centers in Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Denmark, and France. She has also completed research internships at the University of California, Irvine (USA), the University of Grenoble Alpes (France), and Aichi University, Nagoya (Japan).

Publications

Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as:

• Nature Human Behaviour
• Memory
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• British Journal of Psychology
• Psychology & Sexuality

Conferences

She has presented her research at more than 30 national and international scientific conferences hosted by various professional organizations, including:

• American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS)
• European Association of Psychology and Law (EA-PL)
• Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
• European Association of Social Psychology (EA-SP)

Teaching

At SWPS University, she is the Coordinator of the Psychology in English program and teaches courses in social psychology.