Tomasz Besta (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Speaker: Prof. Tomasz Besta (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Talk: Public Understanding of Biotechnology
Time: Friday, 5th of September 2014, 8:30 (gr. A), 10:45 (gr. B)
Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2014, OW Syrenka, Stegna
Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School
Tomasz Besta, biographical note
Social psychologist and an associate professor at the University of Gdansk, Institute of Psychology. He obtained his PhD in 2010 from the Polish Academy of Science and since then has been involved as a principal investigator or main researcher in national and international research projects (granted by, for example, the Polish National Science Center, the European Commission Jean Monet Programme and Norway Grants in the Polish-Norwegian Research Programme). His main research area is social and personality psychology; he analyzes the mechanisms of intergroup relations, dynamics of social identities, and the consequences of the need for certainty and predictability. Recently, he has been involved in research into public understanding of technology and human cognitive distortions related to the protection of world-views and beliefs. He is also an ad-hoc reviewer in national and international journals and one of the editors of the Current Issues in Personality Psychology.