Łukasz D Kaczmarek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Łukasz D Kaczmarek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Łukasz D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaczmarek |
| SIGNATURE | KACZMAREK Ł D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5565-8334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emodiversity in social interactions. Dissecting affect, physiology and behavior
Experiencing an abundance of positive and negative emotions (emodiversity) can predict better outcomes than positive or negative emotions in separation. We tested whether state and trait emodiversity influence behavior in challenging social situations and whether this link is mediated by parasympathetic activation. Two hundred ten undergraduate students reported their emotions from the preceding month and were then randomly assigned to one of fou…
The psychophysiology of interpreting emotional language in the audiovisual modality
Recent decades have shown a growing interest in the psychophysiological aspects of interpreting. Among various methods employed to study the process of interpreting, electrodermal activity (EDA) and cardiac measurements have gained prominence, particularly in the context of affective processing. Recent EDA research has suggested that interpreters respond to the affective content present in the source language (Korpal & Jankowiak, 2021; Korpal & J…
Video game play and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, video gaming was often suggested as a way to help maintain physical distancing by encouraging people to stay indoors and play games instead of seeking social activities. However, there was concern about whether the increased time spent on video gaming could negatively affect players’ mental health. In our meta-analysis, we synthesized studies to evaluate changes in gaming time during the pandemic and examine its asso…
Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy with Hospitalized Depressed Individuals–The Temporal Order of Change in Mindfulness, Rumination, and Affect
Mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) is an interdisciplinary intervention that integrates mindfulness techniques with art activities. While previous research has examined MBAT’s effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms, little is known about the temporal dynamics of change during participation. This study explored session-to-session changes in mindfulness, rumination, and affect among hospitalized patients with depressive episodes. The study…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
How Curiosity Enhances Performance
Research has shown that curiosity plays a crucial role in human performance and well-being. Based on multi-dimensional models of curiosity, we examined potential underlying mechanisms for this relationship. Extending prior research, we expected state and trait variants of curiosity to predict more challenge and less threat appraisals for novel tasks (i.e., joyous exploration dimension), stronger dissatisfaction when denied opportunities to do som…
Motivational intensity and valence are married, but they are not the same person
Comments on the article by Campbell et al. (see record 2021-21096-001). Campbell et al. (2021) claimed motivational intensity (approach-avoidance) is a redundant construct that is merely another label for valence (positive-negative). They based their conclusion on a high correlation between valence and motivational intensity when participants rated pictures. We present arguments that their conclusion was based on inadequate evidence. First, we ex…
The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions
The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect by presenting conflicting results. To address this issue quantitatively, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 16 studies ( N = 1,220; 72 effect sizes) measuring sympathetic recovery during elicited positive emotions and neutral conditions. Findings in…
Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Positive Emotions
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is a fundamental component of emotional responding. It is not clear, however, whether positive emotional states are associated with differential ANS reactivity. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 120 articles (686 effect sizes, total N = 6,546), measuring ANS activity during 11 elicited positive emotions, namely amusement, attachment love, awe, contentment, craving, excitement, gr…
How Healthy and Unhealthy Values Predict Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
Despite a strong link between values and well-being, little is known about dimensions moderating this link, e.g., whether individuals who act upon their values experience greater well-being for healthy values (e.g., self-transcendence) and lower well-being for unhealthy values (e.g., self-enhancement). Moreover, research on values and value-related behavior has rarely accounted for hedonic and eudaimonic well-being at the same time. Thus, we aime…
Positive Emotions Boost Enthusiastic Responsiveness to Capitalization Attempts. Dissecting Self-Report, Physiology, and Behavior
When individuals communicate enthusiasm for good events in their partners' lives, they contribute to a high-quality relationship; a phenomenon termed interpersonal capitalization. However, little is known when individuals are more ready to react enthusiastically to the partner's success. To address this gap, we examined whether positive and negative emotions boost or inhibit enthusiastic responses to partner's capitalization attempts (RCA). Parti…
Acting on Values
Individuals increase well-being by acting on their values rather than merely endorsing them. We developed a novel intervention (“Acting on Values,” AoV), motivating individuals to initiate values-related behavior over four weeks. Building upon the theory of Basic Human Values, we expected that intervention recipients would increase their hedonic and eudaimonic well-being relative to a control group. We also expected the AoV interventions to cause…
Evil joy is hard to share
Capitalization is an interpersonal process in which individuals (capitalizers) communicate their accomplishments to others (responders). When these attempts to capitalize are met with enthusiastic responses, individuals reap greater personal and social benefits from the accomplishment. This research integrated the interpersonal model of capitalization with moral foundations theory to examine whether accomplishments achieved through immoral (vs. m…
Gratitude Texting Touches the Heart
Gratitude-based interventions are effective in facilitating positive relationships and increasing life satisfaction. However, for some individuals (e.g., with high levels of depression and low trait-gratitude) gratitude expression is threatening and rarely undertaken spontaneously. In this study, we expected to replicate this gratitude expression threat effect. Moreover, we aimed to understand psychophysiological mechanisms of this effect by acco…
The role of emotions in esports performance
Emotions that differ on the approach-avoidance dimension are thought to have different functions. Based on the motivational dimensional model of affect, we expected high-approach tendency (and not valence) to facilitate sports performance in a gaming context. Moreover, we expected the influence of high-approach emotions on performance to be mediated by higher levels of cognitive and physiological challenge as an approach-related response. To test…
Mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between anxiety and health behaviors of obese adolescents
Mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between anxiety and health behaviors of obese adolescents Obesity is one of the major health problems in adolescents. Health-detrimental lifestyle (i.e. lack of physical activity, inappropriate nutrition) as well as maladaptive styles of coping with stress are regarded as belonging among determinants of obesity. The aim of the study was to establish factors mediating between anxiety and diet-rel…
Validation of the voluntary participation in online surveys scale
A comprehensive understanding of participants’ motives to complete web-based surveys has the potential to improve data quality. In this study we tested the construct validity of a scale developed to measure motivation to participate in webbased surveys. We expected that 7 different motivations observed in our previous study will form a 3-factor structure, as predicted by Self-Determination Theory. This web-based questionnaire study comprised 257 …
Psychosocial coping resources and health among Germans and Poles
Psychosocial coping resources and health among Germans and Poles Culture has a substantial impact on mechanism of coping with stress and related health outcomes. We proposed a model emphasizing the mediating role of coping resources and competences in the relationship between controllability of demands in professional/educational life and health in the cross-cultural context. The model is based on the transactional model of stress. 595 participan…
Adaptation and Validation of the Steen Happiness Index into Polish
Adaptation and Validation of the Steen Happiness Index into Polish Authentic happiness is a construct comprising 3 factors: pleasure, engagement, and meaning (Seligman, Parks, & Steen, 2005). Three studies involving altogether 464 participants adapted and validated the authentic happiness measure Steen Happiness Index (SHI; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005) into Polish. In Study 1 the Polish version of the scale was developed and its conve…
Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect and cardiovascular activity
Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect and cardiovascular activity In accordance with the undoing hypothesis (Fredrickson, Levenson, 1998), evoked positive affect speeds up the cardiovascular system recovery in a stressful situation. An attempt was made to replicate this finding in an experimental study. Individuals characterized by high resiliency levels are capable of more efficient utilization of positive emotions in a stressful situati…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect and cardiovascular activity
Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect and cardiovascular activity In accordance with the undoing hypothesis (Fredrickson, Levenson, 1998), evoked positive affect speeds up the cardiovascular system recovery in a stressful situation. An attempt was made to replicate this finding in an experimental study. Individuals characterized by high resiliency levels are capable of more efficient utilization of positive emotions in a stressful situati…
Adaptation and Validation of the Steen Happiness Index into Polish
Adaptation and Validation of the Steen Happiness Index into Polish Authentic happiness is a construct comprising 3 factors: pleasure, engagement, and meaning (Seligman, Parks, & Steen, 2005). Three studies involving altogether 464 participants adapted and validated the authentic happiness measure Steen Happiness Index (SHI; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005) into Polish. In Study 1 the Polish version of the scale was developed and its conve…
Psychosocial coping resources and health among Germans and Poles
Psychosocial coping resources and health among Germans and Poles Culture has a substantial impact on mechanism of coping with stress and related health outcomes. We proposed a model emphasizing the mediating role of coping resources and competences in the relationship between controllability of demands in professional/educational life and health in the cross-cultural context. The model is based on the transactional model of stress. 595 participan…
Mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between anxiety and health behaviors of obese adolescents
Mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between anxiety and health behaviors of obese adolescents Obesity is one of the major health problems in adolescents. Health-detrimental lifestyle (i.e. lack of physical activity, inappropriate nutrition) as well as maladaptive styles of coping with stress are regarded as belonging among determinants of obesity. The aim of the study was to establish factors mediating between anxiety and diet-rel…
Validation of the voluntary participation in online surveys scale
A comprehensive understanding of participants’ motives to complete web-based surveys has the potential to improve data quality. In this study we tested the construct validity of a scale developed to measure motivation to participate in webbased surveys. We expected that 7 different motivations observed in our previous study will form a 3-factor structure, as predicted by Self-Determination Theory. This web-based questionnaire study comprised 257 …
The role of emotions in esports performance
Emotions that differ on the approach-avoidance dimension are thought to have different functions. Based on the motivational dimensional model of affect, we expected high-approach tendency (and not valence) to facilitate sports performance in a gaming context. Moreover, we expected the influence of high-approach emotions on performance to be mediated by higher levels of cognitive and physiological challenge as an approach-related response. To test…
Gratitude Texting Touches the Heart
Gratitude-based interventions are effective in facilitating positive relationships and increasing life satisfaction. However, for some individuals (e.g., with high levels of depression and low trait-gratitude) gratitude expression is threatening and rarely undertaken spontaneously. In this study, we expected to replicate this gratitude expression threat effect. Moreover, we aimed to understand psychophysiological mechanisms of this effect by acco…
Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Positive Emotions
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is a fundamental component of emotional responding. It is not clear, however, whether positive emotional states are associated with differential ANS reactivity. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 120 articles (686 effect sizes, total N = 6,546), measuring ANS activity during 11 elicited positive emotions, namely amusement, attachment love, awe, contentment, craving, excitement, gr…
How Healthy and Unhealthy Values Predict Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
Despite a strong link between values and well-being, little is known about dimensions moderating this link, e.g., whether individuals who act upon their values experience greater well-being for healthy values (e.g., self-transcendence) and lower well-being for unhealthy values (e.g., self-enhancement). Moreover, research on values and value-related behavior has rarely accounted for hedonic and eudaimonic well-being at the same time. Thus, we aime…
Positive Emotions Boost Enthusiastic Responsiveness to Capitalization Attempts. Dissecting Self-Report, Physiology, and Behavior
When individuals communicate enthusiasm for good events in their partners' lives, they contribute to a high-quality relationship; a phenomenon termed interpersonal capitalization. However, little is known when individuals are more ready to react enthusiastically to the partner's success. To address this gap, we examined whether positive and negative emotions boost or inhibit enthusiastic responses to partner's capitalization attempts (RCA). Parti…
Acting on Values
Individuals increase well-being by acting on their values rather than merely endorsing them. We developed a novel intervention (“Acting on Values,” AoV), motivating individuals to initiate values-related behavior over four weeks. Building upon the theory of Basic Human Values, we expected that intervention recipients would increase their hedonic and eudaimonic well-being relative to a control group. We also expected the AoV interventions to cause…
Evil joy is hard to share
Capitalization is an interpersonal process in which individuals (capitalizers) communicate their accomplishments to others (responders). When these attempts to capitalize are met with enthusiastic responses, individuals reap greater personal and social benefits from the accomplishment. This research integrated the interpersonal model of capitalization with moral foundations theory to examine whether accomplishments achieved through immoral (vs. m…
The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions
The undoing hypothesis proposes that positive emotions serve to undo sympathetic arousal related to negative emotions and stress. However, a recent qualitative review challenged the undoing effect by presenting conflicting results. To address this issue quantitatively, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 16 studies ( N = 1,220; 72 effect sizes) measuring sympathetic recovery during elicited positive emotions and neutral conditions. Findings in…
How Curiosity Enhances Performance
Research has shown that curiosity plays a crucial role in human performance and well-being. Based on multi-dimensional models of curiosity, we examined potential underlying mechanisms for this relationship. Extending prior research, we expected state and trait variants of curiosity to predict more challenge and less threat appraisals for novel tasks (i.e., joyous exploration dimension), stronger dissatisfaction when denied opportunities to do som…
Motivational intensity and valence are married, but they are not the same person
Comments on the article by Campbell et al. (see record 2021-21096-001). Campbell et al. (2021) claimed motivational intensity (approach-avoidance) is a redundant construct that is merely another label for valence (positive-negative). They based their conclusion on a high correlation between valence and motivational intensity when participants rated pictures. We present arguments that their conclusion was based on inadequate evidence. First, we ex…
Video game play and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, video gaming was often suggested as a way to help maintain physical distancing by encouraging people to stay indoors and play games instead of seeking social activities. However, there was concern about whether the increased time spent on video gaming could negatively affect players’ mental health. In our meta-analysis, we synthesized studies to evaluate changes in gaming time during the pandemic and examine its asso…
Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy with Hospitalized Depressed Individuals–The Temporal Order of Change in Mindfulness, Rumination, and Affect
Mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) is an interdisciplinary intervention that integrates mindfulness techniques with art activities. While previous research has examined MBAT’s effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms, little is known about the temporal dynamics of change during participation. This study explored session-to-session changes in mindfulness, rumination, and affect among hospitalized patients with depressive episodes. The study…
Emotional content affects interpreters
There has been a growing interest recently in the psychophysiological correlates of interpreting affect-laden content. Such an examination could provide crucial insights into affective language processing in the highly cognitively taxing task of interpreting. We tested how professional interpreters process affect-laden and neutral content when interpreting. Using a multi-method approach, we employed psychophysiological measures (electrodermal act…
Emodiversity in social interactions. Dissecting affect, physiology and behavior
Experiencing an abundance of positive and negative emotions (emodiversity) can predict better outcomes than positive or negative emotions in separation. We tested whether state and trait emodiversity influence behavior in challenging social situations and whether this link is mediated by parasympathetic activation. Two hundred ten undergraduate students reported their emotions from the preceding month and were then randomly assigned to one of fou…
The psychophysiology of interpreting emotional language in the audiovisual modality
Recent decades have shown a growing interest in the psychophysiological aspects of interpreting. Among various methods employed to study the process of interpreting, electrodermal activity (EDA) and cardiac measurements have gained prominence, particularly in the context of affective processing. Recent EDA research has suggested that interpreters respond to the affective content present in the source language (Korpal & Jankowiak, 2021; Korpal & J…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works)