Séllei Bianka
Bianka carried out one of the mandatory research practices and is also preparing a work for the National Conference of Scientific Students' Associations in our lab.
Zsuzsanna Fehér
I am a second-year BA student, my main interest lies in how technology affects attention and shapes various cognitive functions. I am currently working on a project which analyzes the importance of older adults' ICT usage.
Why people fear the supernatural?
The evolution of supernatural fears is an undermined field of research, therefore our main goal was to establish a potential model to explain these phenomena.
Threat anticipation in the case of Blood- Injury-Injection phobia
As part of our current project, we are conducting a behavioral study related to blood-injury-injection phobia. We would like to examine anticipatory attentional bias towards threatening content related to BII phobia.
Brigitta Váradi-Borbás
Brigitta is a PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University. She obtained her Research Master's degree in Psychopathology at Maastricht University in 2020. Her drive for conducting research is to improve the understanding of phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder by finding out more about the psychopathology of these conditions.
Julia Basler
Julia received her BA and MA degrees in psychology at the University of Pécs in 2020 and 2022, respectively. She is mostly interested in cognitive biases related to social phobia and social anxiety. She uses emotional facial and body expressions in her research. She also plans to use VR technology in future research.
Julia is currently a PhD student in the lab.
Publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Basler
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=hu&user=Z_9hHkMAAAAJ
Botond Kiss
Botond received his BA and MA in psychology at the University of Pécs in 2020 and 2022, respectively. Botond studies the unique characteristics of specific phobias such as animal phobias and blood-injury-injection phobias. He uses survey methods and behavioral experiments.
Botond started his PhD studies in the fall of 2022 and is currently a fellow research assistant in our Lab.
Links to publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Botond-Kiss-2
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=hu&user=lJUrhKcAAAAJ
Cintia Bali
Cintia graduated with her master's degree in Psychology from the University of Pécs in 2020. Cinta's research interest lies in the usage of Information and Communication Technology devices in the field of education. Within this area, she is especially concerned about the electronic storybooks’ effects on information processing among preschoolers. In her future work, she intends to examine the performance of children with special needs - e.g. risk of Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - while they are using these multimedia devices.