I was very happy to attend the Spring School of Evolutionary Psychology, It was an educational event for young scholars where I was invited to teach psychophysiological and observational methods. It was organized on May 4-6, 2018 in Poland by the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies and the Institue of Psychology at the University of Wroclaw. Piotr Sorokowski and Agnieszka Sorokowska were the primary facilitators.
I presented a practical introduction to well-established and some new methods for the measurement of emotions via peripheral and behavioral responses. My impression was that the audience was the most responsive to the facial expression analysis via computer software (namely, Xpress Engine that we have used in our laboratory successfully). Many people were interested in facial expression analysis. I was very happy to hear it because I have a very strong impression that facial expression analysis has been a greatly undervalued and overlooked method.
I much enjoyed this meeting despite the fact that I do not consider myself an evolutionary psychologist. In fact, I do not consider myself any type of a psychologist. I find myself just a psychologist - a scientist that is eager to integrate various subdisciplines in psychology that are often studied separately. I think that it is important to start integrating after decades of differentiation among psychologists. However, what is always important to me is using objective methods to study subjective phenomena. This is very much in line with W. Wundt's view; an approach that resulted in the emerge of psychology as a discipline aspiring to be a part of the natural science rather than the product of solely philosophical reasoning.
I presented a practical introduction to well-established and some new methods for the measurement of emotions via peripheral and behavioral responses. My impression was that the audience was the most responsive to the facial expression analysis via computer software (namely, Xpress Engine that we have used in our laboratory successfully). Many people were interested in facial expression analysis. I was very happy to hear it because I have a very strong impression that facial expression analysis has been a greatly undervalued and overlooked method.
I much enjoyed this meeting despite the fact that I do not consider myself an evolutionary psychologist. In fact, I do not consider myself any type of a psychologist. I find myself just a psychologist - a scientist that is eager to integrate various subdisciplines in psychology that are often studied separately. I think that it is important to start integrating after decades of differentiation among psychologists. However, what is always important to me is using objective methods to study subjective phenomena. This is very much in line with W. Wundt's view; an approach that resulted in the emerge of psychology as a discipline aspiring to be a part of the natural science rather than the product of solely philosophical reasoning.
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