In 2005, at the encouragement of Prof. Jerzy Brzezinski, as a first-year doctoral student under the supervision of Prof. Helena Sęk, I applied for a research grant for my Ph.D. thesis. It was to be an attempt to reactivate laboratory experiments in our department. This type of research had not been conducted at our department since the 1960s. With the funds, I bought a simple psychophysiological apparatus and carried out three experiments on the effect of positive emotions on the stress response. These were difficult beginnings full of mistakes, sweat, and tears. Nevertheless, the youthful sense of accomplishment was priceless, resulting from the impression that "this is really happening!" In our region, psychophysiological research was being produced - as if from one of the international journals that we all read and cited.
After completing my Ph.D., I submitted another grant proposal to continue research on the psychophysiology of positive emotions and purchased better equipment. This was followed by a third application for research going one step further - positive emotions among people in love supporting each other in a task situation. More and more laboratory research began to emerge around us with the appearance of dr David Wiener and Prof. Grzegorz Króliczak at our department. I conducted my research thanks to the kindness of Prof. Grzegorz Króliczak, who made his laboratory space available to me and supported me emotionally as well as technically. To my great joy, Prof. Jerzy Brzezinski (then head of the Institute of Psychology) assigned our "flying laboratory" its own space and allocated considerable funds to adapt it for research purposes.
In 2013, we received another grant from the National Science Center. The best available equipment for psychophysiological research was purchased. Mainly from the companies ADInstruments and Finapres. The Health Psychophysiology Lab (as we called ourselves) began to attract graduate students and postdocs who helped with the research by learning how to conduct their own. With this grant, I established a partnership with the Medical University and cardiologist Prof. Przemyslaw Guzik, who brought to our research not only excellent subject matter expertise but also an attitude of courage and a desire to push the boundaries.
In 2015 we managed to win another grant from the National Science Center. Another highly rated application allowed us to expand our laboratory with the second set of apparatus. Thus, we were able to start research in so-called social psychophysiology at the highest possible level. Plus, new methods of behavior analysis (head and leg movements) and some other data analyses not used anywhere else, such as heart rate asymmetry.
Papers from our research began to appear in top-tier journals such as Psychophysiology, Emotion, Emotion Review, and Scientific Data. The symbolic culmination of the hard road was establishing a collaboration with the Stanford University Psychophysiology Laboratory - project work and academic exchange.
Our team contributed its brick to the psychophysiology of positive emotions. We have researched to understand the physiology and beneficial function of positive emotions, including the functioning of romantic couples in task situations or esports players. I hope that we have become a team that is beginning to be recognized internationally as an ambitious and creative group in psychophysiology and the psychology of emotions.
After completing my Ph.D., I submitted another grant proposal to continue research on the psychophysiology of positive emotions and purchased better equipment. This was followed by a third application for research going one step further - positive emotions among people in love supporting each other in a task situation. More and more laboratory research began to emerge around us with the appearance of dr David Wiener and Prof. Grzegorz Króliczak at our department. I conducted my research thanks to the kindness of Prof. Grzegorz Króliczak, who made his laboratory space available to me and supported me emotionally as well as technically. To my great joy, Prof. Jerzy Brzezinski (then head of the Institute of Psychology) assigned our "flying laboratory" its own space and allocated considerable funds to adapt it for research purposes.
In 2013, we received another grant from the National Science Center. The best available equipment for psychophysiological research was purchased. Mainly from the companies ADInstruments and Finapres. The Health Psychophysiology Lab (as we called ourselves) began to attract graduate students and postdocs who helped with the research by learning how to conduct their own. With this grant, I established a partnership with the Medical University and cardiologist Prof. Przemyslaw Guzik, who brought to our research not only excellent subject matter expertise but also an attitude of courage and a desire to push the boundaries.
In 2015 we managed to win another grant from the National Science Center. Another highly rated application allowed us to expand our laboratory with the second set of apparatus. Thus, we were able to start research in so-called social psychophysiology at the highest possible level. Plus, new methods of behavior analysis (head and leg movements) and some other data analyses not used anywhere else, such as heart rate asymmetry.
Papers from our research began to appear in top-tier journals such as Psychophysiology, Emotion, Emotion Review, and Scientific Data. The symbolic culmination of the hard road was establishing a collaboration with the Stanford University Psychophysiology Laboratory - project work and academic exchange.
Our team contributed its brick to the psychophysiology of positive emotions. We have researched to understand the physiology and beneficial function of positive emotions, including the functioning of romantic couples in task situations or esports players. I hope that we have become a team that is beginning to be recognized internationally as an ambitious and creative group in psychophysiology and the psychology of emotions.
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