Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Dr. Blazej Baczkowski

Dr. Blazej Baczkowski is a cognitive (experimental) psychologist with passion for methodology and statistics. His past research was concerned with how individuals learn to protect themselves from danger. To this end, he pursued the idea that individuals estimate the risk of harm using a 'cognitive map' of their environment built from multiple separate learning episodes acquired in safety on the one hand, and minimal aversive experience on the other.

At the Hector Research Institute for Education Sciences and Psychology, where he is a postdoctoral researcher since October 2023, he continues studying fundamental aspects of memory but in a naturalistic setting with the aim to better elucidate how we learn and remember.

 

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Baczkowski, B. M., Haaker, J., Schwabe, L. (2023). Inferring danger with minimal aversive experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., ... , Baczkowski, B. M., ... , Nichols, T. E., Poldrack, R. A., Schonberg, T. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many groups. Nature, 582, 84-88.
  • Reinelt, J., Uhlig, M., Muller, K., ..., Baczkowski, B. M., ..., Villringer, A., Gaebler, M. (2019). Acute psychosocial stress alters thalamic network centrality. Neuroimage, 199, 680- 690.
  • Baczkowski, B. M., Johnstone, T., Walter, H., Erk, S., Veer, I. M. (2017). Sliding-window analysis tracks fluctuations in amygdala functional connectivity associated with physiological arousal and vigilance during fear conditioning. NeuroImage, 153,168-178.
  • Baczkowski∗, B. M., van Zutphen∗, L., Siep, N., Jacob, G. A., ... , Arntz, A., van de Ven, V. (2017). Deficient amygdala-prefrontal intrinsic connectivity after effortful emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 267(6),551-565 (∗ denotes equal contribution)
  • Isgett, S., Kok, B., Baczkowski, B. M., Algoe, S., Grewen, K., Fredrickson, B. (2017). Influences of oxytocin and respiratory sinus arrhythmia on emotions and social behavior in daily life. Emotion, 17(8): 1156-1165.
  • McCall, C., Hildebrandt, L. K., Hartmann, R., Baczkowski, B. M., Singer, T. (2016). Introducing the Wunderkammer as a tool for emotion research: Unconstrained gaze and movement patterns in three emotionally evocative virtual worlds. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 93-107.

 

Curriculum Vitae

2023 - now
Postdoctoral researcher

Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany

2021 – 2023
Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Cognitive Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Germany

2020 – 2021
Researcher

Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institut for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2015 – 2019
Researcher (Doctorate)

Department of Neurology, Max-Planck-Institut for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2015
M.Sc. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Freie Universität Berlin

2014 – 2015
Promovendus

Department of Clinical Psychological Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

2012
M.A. Psychology

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland