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Meet our Researchers

Daniel Boduszek

 

SWPS University is a leading research center in Poland. Results of our research find numerous practical applications in education, business organizations, and public administration. These discoveries require drive, courage, dedication, responsibility, and years of hard work. We would like you to meet the people behind the projects, see the research centers where they work, and discover the fascinating world of science, which improves the quality of life.

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Research Focus
Criminal / forensic psychology

Daniel Boduszek, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at SWPS University’s Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław and a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Huddersfiled, UK. As a young man, he moved to Ireland to study psychology. While completing his internship at Dublin’s prisons he conducted numerous conversations with offenders and asked himself: ‘Why do people get in trouble?”. He discovered that offenders display criminal social identity, which led him to develop an Integrated Psychosocial Model of Criminal Social Identity. Professor Boduszek also observed that the offenders who scored high on the psychopathy traits scale, developed the criminal social identity much faster. Based on these findings, Professor Boduszek created the Psychopathic Personality Traits Model, which has been verified during the largest study on the criminal population ever, conducted in Polish prisons, and subsequently in the United States in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Nowadays, this verified and well established Model of psychopathy is used around the world.

If you want to be a good psychologist, you have to love people. We have to have this connection with our patients and also in general with people we work with. Even when you go to prison and you deal with someone who is doing time, remember – it is a human being, and your job is to help him or her.

Daniel Boduszek
Daniel Boduszek
Professor

Hear Prof. Boduszek speak about:

Research concerning criminal offenders and his therapeutic practice that helps victims of crimes

As a researcher, Professor Boduszek aims to find out, from the psychological point of view, why people commit crimes. As a therapist, he uses the knowledge gained from his interviews with criminal offenders to help victims of crimes. Find out how these two aspects of psychology – research and therapy – are intertwined.

Read more about Prof. Boduszek's research

Research Center
Social Behavior Research Center

The Center carries out experimental research on human behavior. Some research topics include: social influence, lying and its determinants, behavioral chain analysis, compensatory behaviors, determinants and consequences of mobbing, moral foundations of vegetarianism, and the need for meaning and sense of life.
Social Behavior Research Center


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Researchers of SWPS University

Meet our researchers. Hear them talk about their passion for finding answers to scientific questions and their commitment to providing solutions, which improve the lives of individuals and communities.

The project is financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the Welcome to Poland programme.

Meet our researchers