MACROPSYCHOLOGY

My motives:

I firmly believe that cultural sensitivity is key to achieving a harmonious future. In today's multipolar world, there is room for diverse worldviews, ways of living a good life, and values to thrive.

As of the mid-2020s, a multipolar world is evident. To mitigate potential tensions, it is imperative that we recognize and honor cultural diversity. The concept of being a 'good human' varies significantly across cultures.

In my professional endeavors, I embrace a post-disciplinary approach. This entails examining psychological phenomena on a macro-social scale and drawing abundantly from disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology, and other fields within the scientific realm.

In my pursuit to comprehend the diverse facets of human nature, I actively traverse the cultural boundaries that confine us.

Professional background:

• I am an associate professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

• Large cross-cultural studies covering several dozen countries from all inhabited continents are my speciality.

• Cultural sensitivity applied to societal development and well-being is currently my main area of scientific interest (for more please see here and here).

• I love Japan. I lived in Kyoto and worked at the Kyoto University (as JSPS Fellow). My sensei was Yukiko Uchida. 

JCCP's special section on "Bridging Cross-Cultural Psychology with Societal Development Studies":

In 2019, with Yukiko Uchida and Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, we announced the Call for Papers to a Special Section of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology on "Bridging Cross-Cultural Psychology with Societal Development Studies: Discussion on the Idea of Cultural Sensitivity in Conceptualizing and Measuring Societal Development". In 2023 it got published - please see here.

Publications:

In my publications, I describe the cultural nuances of wellbeing and societal development. Recently, I have begun studying civicness as a psychological model to further explore these topics. For more on my publications, please see here.

Ad-hoc reviewing for journals:

• American Psychologist,

• Psychological Science,

• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,

• Journal of Happiness Studies,

• Psychology of Men & Masculinities,

• Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,

• Asian Journal of Social Psychology,

• International Journal of Psychology,

• and other minor journals (e.g., Frontiers, Polish Psychological Bulletin, Japanese Psychological Research).

Ad-hoc reviewing for granting agencies:

• As an expert appointed by the European Commission, I review grant applications in the EU research and innovation programmes (H2020 - MSCA).

Major awards:

• Our paper entitled "Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals" was selected as one of the ten most important papers in the forty years long history of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (2016). This paper attracted high readers' and media attention - downloads from the publisher site: over 40,000; Altmetric score: ~400 (as of September 2020).

• Our paper entitled "Open society fosters satisfaction: Explanation to why individualism associates with country level measures of satisfaction" was awarded as one of the best scientific papers in the area of positive psychology published by Polish authors by the Polish Society of Positive Psychology (2019).

• Our paper entitled "Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries" was awarded as the best scientific paper in the area of positive psychology published by Polish authors by the Polish Society of Positive Psychology (2021).

• Our paper entitled "Putting the “We” Into Well-being" received the Misumi Award from the Asian Association of Social Psychology for the most cited paper published in the Asian Journal of the Social Psychology (2021).

• Our paper entitled "Societal Emotional Environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study" was awarded as the best scientific paper in the area of positive psychology published by Polish authors by the Polish Society of Positive Psychology (2022).

Grants:

• I act or acted as principal investigator in eight externally funded grants (NCN, NCBiR, MNiSW), and in several minor grants (e.g., FSS). 

• I was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship.

External profiles (I do not update these profiles):

• Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55981945600

• Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kuba_Krys 

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0365-423X

• Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1534377/kuba-krys/

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=IDKaw9MAAAAJ&hl=en

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