Faculty of Psychology

Academic Center for Educational and Social Innovation (AKCES)

AKCES was established by Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak, Ph.D./Assistant Professor, who is also the Head of the Center. The goal of the interdisciplinary Center is to introduce positive and lasting changes in education, in particular, those concerning methodology of teaching mathematics and using new information technology tools.

Department of Behavioral Psychology

The Department of Behavioral Psychology comprises not only academic teachers but also researchers, who are interested in human behavior and factors that influence that behavior. For us, “behavior” comprises everything people do, say, and experience in their minds. We analyze the functional meaning of the above-noted phenomena, while favoring a holistic approach assuming that behavior is context dependent.

Department of Biological Psychology

The Department of Biological Psychology comprises academic teachers and researchers who are passionate about biology and psychology. We strive to explain various aspects of human behavior, including emotions, cognitive functions, and social behaviors, while looking at the underlying biological factors, such as genes and the nervous system, especially the brain.

Department of Business and Economic Psychology

The Department of Economic and Business Psychology combines science with business. We analyze decisions that people make as consumers, employees, entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers of advertising, and we research emotions and cognitive processes that underlie these decisions.

Department of Clinical Psychology

The Department of Clinical Psychology includes specialists who combine research, teaching and psychological practice. Members of our Department work as psychotherapists specializing in various types of psychotherapy. As clinical psychologists, they work with children, youth and adults, at psychiatric wards of various institutions. They also develop preventive interventions and provide expert opinions for courts and other institutions.

Department of Cognitive Psychology, Development and Education

Cognitive psychology involves the study of fundamental mental processes, such as perception, attention, memory and thinking. Extended study includes the differences and changes that occur in these processes at different stages of personal development, from birth to old age, as well as interventions that can modify these processes.

Department of Health Psychology

The Department of Health Psychology comprises researchers and practitioners specializing in clinical health psychology and public health. The team engages in research of different aspects of health psychology, knowledge transfer for practical applications, and teaching at the graduate, post-graduate and doctoral level.

Department of Personality Psychology

The Department of Personality Psychology specializes in research concerning emotions, personality psychology, cognitive social psychology, and cross-cultural psychology.

Department of Psychological Research Methods

The Department of Psychological Research Methods oversees the teaching process involving basic and applied research projects, including statistics and methodology of psychological research. Our goal is to teach students how to apply scientific methods and knowledge to solve practical problems.The Department comprises experienced researchers and practitioners specializing in various areas of psychology, such as cognitive psychology, applied social psychology, and ecopsychology.

Department of Psychology of Individual Differences, Diagnosis and Psychometric Research

The Department of Psychology of Individual Differences, Diagnosis and Psychometric Research strives to find out why every person is different. Theories formulated in the paradigm of individual differences are rooted in the assumption that discovering the structure, mechanisms, origins, and functions of psychological traits is the best way of learning about temperament, personality or cognitive abilities of an individual. The measurement of psychological traits is also an integral part of the individual differences subdiscipline. Therefore, the Department comprises academic teachers and researchers who specialize in psychology of individual differences and psychological assessment.

Department of Social Psychology

The Department of Social Psychology comprises academics specializing in social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and related disciplines.Historically, this has been one of our oldest and most significant departments, as social psychology was the main pillar of the Warsaw School of Social Psychology SWPS, established in 1996, which has become SWPS University. The founder of the Department and its first, long-standing Head, was Professor Krystyna Skarżyńska. Over the years, the Department of Social Psychology became a part of the Department of Social and Personality Psychology, only to become separate once again in 2021. The Department of Social Psychology comprises academics specializing in social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and related disciplines. The current Head of the Department is Professor Wojciech Kulesza.

Experimental Research Laboratory

The Experimental Research Laboratory manages SWPS University’s research infrastructure supporting the teaching process, including specialized software, research rooms for single-subject or focus group studies as well as labs with specialized equipment for measuring physiological reactions.