Przemysław Żywiczyński
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Przemysław Żywiczyński |
| GIVEN NAMES | Przemysław |
| FAMILY NAME | Żywiczyński |
| SIGNATURE | ŻYWICZYŃSKI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nicolaus Copernicus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0267-3845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gaze in context: Non-human eyes can be more salient under ecologically relevant conditions
Primate eyes vary strikingly in pigmentation, yet the drivers of said variation are strongly debated. Recent revisions of the cooperative eye hypothesis propose that the human eye’s sclera evolved to enhance gaze communication specifically under challenging conditions of visibility. We tested this idea under ecologically realistic conditions by presenting observers with a live model wearing contact lenses that simulated either a human-like or a c…
How much conversation content is actually social: Human Conversational Behaviour Revisited
Our study explores aspects of human conversation within the framework of evolutionary psychology, focusing on the proportion of ‘social’ to ‘non-social’ content in casual conversation. Building upon the seminal study by Dunbar et al. (1997, Human Nature , 8 , 231–246), which posited that two-thirds of conversation gravitates around social matters, our findings indicate an even larger portion, approximately 85% being of a social nature. Additional…
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice
An important quality to assess in others is their cooperativeness. We hypothesized that people use linguistic markers in their partners’ speech as a proxy of their cooperativeness in other tasks: specifically, we predicted that participants would prefer syntactically similar conversation partners as cooperation partners in a monetary game. We found that, indeed, participants preferably selected syntactically similar conversation partners as coope…
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: A motion capture investigation of differences in action performances
A commonly held assumption is that demonstration and pantomime differ from ordinary action in that the movements are slowed down and exaggerated to be better understood by intended receivers. This claim has, however, been based on meagre empirical support. This article provides direct evidence that the different functional demands of demonstration and pantomime result in motion characteristics that differ from those for praxic action. In the expe…
Pause Length and Differences in Cognitive State Attribution in Native and Non-Native Speakers
Speech pauses between turns of conversations are crucial for assessing conversation partners' cognitive states, such as their knowledge, confidence and willingness to grant requests; in general, speakers making longer pauses are regarded as less apt and willing. However, it is unclear if the interpretation of pause length is mediated by the accent of interactants, in particular native versus non-native accents. We hypothesized that native listene…
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation
Politeness and reputation in cultural evolution
Politeness in conversation is a fascinating aspect of human interaction that directly interfaces language use and human social behavior more generally. We show how game theory, as a higher-order theory of behavior, can provide the tools to understand and model polite behavior. The recently proposed responsibility exchange theory (Chaudhry and Loewenstein in Psychol Rev 126(3):313–344, 2019) describes how the polite communications of thanking and …
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation
The cooperative character of language is an empirical fact and one of the key tenets in linguistics. However, this cooperative character is what makes it evolutionarily suspect: under normal circumstances sharing honest information with biologically unrelated individuals and without any obvious costs is not an ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy) and is not expected to evolve. Here we approach this problem in the context of prototypical language …
The evolution of (proto-)language: Focus on mechanisms
Self-regulators - A hidden dimension of interaction: Movement similarity and temporal proximity increase the perception of interpersonal coordination in third party observers
The multimodal origins of linguistic communication
Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution
The age-old debate between the proponents of the gesture-first and speech-first positions has returned to occupy a central place in current language evolution theorizing. The gestural scenarios, suffering from the problem known as "modality transition" (why a gestural system would have changed into a predominantly spoken system), frequently appeal to the gestures of the orofacial area as a platform for this putative transition. Here, we review cu…
Human Honest Signalling and Nonverbal Communication
The issue of signal reliability (‘honesty’) is widely recognised in language evolution research as one of the most fundamental problems concerning the evolutionary emergence of protolanguage, i.e. early language-like communication. We propose that nonverbal communication is likely to have played an important but underestimated role in language evolution: not directly in the transfer of message contents, but rather in stabilising the emerging prot…
The evolution of (proto-)language: Focus on mechanisms
Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution
The age-old debate between the proponents of the gesture-first and speech-first positions has returned to occupy a central place in current language evolution theorizing. The gestural scenarios, suffering from the problem known as "modality transition" (why a gestural system would have changed into a predominantly spoken system), frequently appeal to the gestures of the orofacial area as a platform for this putative transition. Here, we review cu…
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation
An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation
The cooperative character of language is an empirical fact and one of the key tenets in linguistics. However, this cooperative character is what makes it evolutionarily suspect: under normal circumstances sharing honest information with biologically unrelated individuals and without any obvious costs is not an ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy) and is not expected to evolve. Here we approach this problem in the context of prototypical language …
Self-regulators - A hidden dimension of interaction: Movement similarity and temporal proximity increase the perception of interpersonal coordination in third party observers
The multimodal origins of linguistic communication
Human Honest Signalling and Nonverbal Communication
The issue of signal reliability (‘honesty’) is widely recognised in language evolution research as one of the most fundamental problems concerning the evolutionary emergence of protolanguage, i.e. early language-like communication. We propose that nonverbal communication is likely to have played an important but underestimated role in language evolution: not directly in the transfer of message contents, but rather in stabilising the emerging prot…
Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution
The age-old debate between the proponents of the gesture-first and speech-first positions has returned to occupy a central place in current language evolution theorizing. The gestural scenarios, suffering from the problem known as "modality transition" (why a gestural system would have changed into a predominantly spoken system), frequently appeal to the gestures of the orofacial area as a platform for this putative transition. Here, we review cu…
An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation
The cooperative character of language is an empirical fact and one of the key tenets in linguistics. However, this cooperative character is what makes it evolutionarily suspect: under normal circumstances sharing honest information with biologically unrelated individuals and without any obvious costs is not an ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy) and is not expected to evolve. Here we approach this problem in the context of prototypical language …
The evolution of (proto-)language: Focus on mechanisms
Self-regulators - A hidden dimension of interaction: Movement similarity and temporal proximity increase the perception of interpersonal coordination in third party observers
The multimodal origins of linguistic communication
Politeness and reputation in cultural evolution
Politeness in conversation is a fascinating aspect of human interaction that directly interfaces language use and human social behavior more generally. We show how game theory, as a higher-order theory of behavior, can provide the tools to understand and model polite behavior. The recently proposed responsibility exchange theory (Chaudhry and Loewenstein in Psychol Rev 126(3):313–344, 2019) describes how the polite communications of thanking and …
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
Pause Length and Differences in Cognitive State Attribution in Native and Non-Native Speakers
Speech pauses between turns of conversations are crucial for assessing conversation partners' cognitive states, such as their knowledge, confidence and willingness to grant requests; in general, speakers making longer pauses are regarded as less apt and willing. However, it is unclear if the interpretation of pause length is mediated by the accent of interactants, in particular native versus non-native accents. We hypothesized that native listene…
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice
An important quality to assess in others is their cooperativeness. We hypothesized that people use linguistic markers in their partners’ speech as a proxy of their cooperativeness in other tasks: specifically, we predicted that participants would prefer syntactically similar conversation partners as cooperation partners in a monetary game. We found that, indeed, participants preferably selected syntactically similar conversation partners as coope…
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: A motion capture investigation of differences in action performances
A commonly held assumption is that demonstration and pantomime differ from ordinary action in that the movements are slowed down and exaggerated to be better understood by intended receivers. This claim has, however, been based on meagre empirical support. This article provides direct evidence that the different functional demands of demonstration and pantomime result in motion characteristics that differ from those for praxic action. In the expe…
How much conversation content is actually social: Human Conversational Behaviour Revisited
Our study explores aspects of human conversation within the framework of evolutionary psychology, focusing on the proportion of ‘social’ to ‘non-social’ content in casual conversation. Building upon the seminal study by Dunbar et al. (1997, Human Nature , 8 , 231–246), which posited that two-thirds of conversation gravitates around social matters, our findings indicate an even larger portion, approximately 85% being of a social nature. Additional…
Gaze in context: Non-human eyes can be more salient under ecologically relevant conditions
Primate eyes vary strikingly in pigmentation, yet the drivers of said variation are strongly debated. Recent revisions of the cooperative eye hypothesis propose that the human eye’s sclera evolved to enhance gaze communication specifically under challenging conditions of visibility. We tested this idea under ecologically realistic conditions by presenting observers with a live model wearing contact lenses that simulated either a human-like or a c…
Psychology (11 works) · Language and cultural evolution (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Communication (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)