Denise Andrzejewski

Role
Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology
Section
School of Social Sciences
Email
Denise Andrzejewski

About

Denise Andrzejewski holds a BSc in Psychology from University of Derby and an MSc of Applied Psychology from Middlesex University, which she both completed with summa cum laude. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in Psychology at the Doctoral School of Cognition, Behavior, and Neuroscience at University of Vienna, Austria.

Biography

As an educator, Denise is teaching a broad range of courses but particularly enjoys making complex topics more accessible and comprehensible to students. She has supervised more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations so far.

She also has over a decade of international corporate industry experience in administration, management, human resources, training, and leadership.

Research

Besides her PhD research on human intelligence and the Flynn Effect, her interdisciplinary research is wide-ranging but generally focusses around social and psychological aspects of Mental Health, culture, and identity.  

Areas of interest: Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Personality Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology

Active research interests:

  • Intelligence and the Flynn Effect
  • Creativity & Curiosity
  • Stigma, Identity, and Mental Health in the Middle East
  • Mortality salience, Terror Management Theory, and threats to self
  • Sleep & Bedtime procrastination
  • Body Image across cultures
  • Research Methods
Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FRelD4QAAAAJ&hl=en

Kotera, Y., Andrzejewski, D., Dosedlova, J., Taylor, E., Edwards, A.-M. & Blackmore, C. (2022) Mental Health of Czech University Students: Negative Mental Health Attitudes, Mental Health Shame, and Self-Compassion. Healthcare https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10040676

Kotera, Y., Dosedlova, J., Andrzejewski, D., Kaluzeviciute, G., & Sakai, M. (2021). From Stress to Psychopathology: Relationship with Self-Reassurance and Self-Criticism in Czech University Students. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00516-z

Bertl, B., Andrzejewski, D., Hyland, L., Shrivastava, A., Russell, D., & Pietschnig, J. (2019). My grade, my right: Linking academic entitlement to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-019-09509-2