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Jerzy J. Karylowski

Jerzy J. Karylowski

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Dr. Karylowski's areas of specialty are social psychology and social cognition. His professional affiliations include the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, the International Society for Self and Identity, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He holds a position of Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and Professor at the Instytut Psychologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences).

Primary Interests:

  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Person Perception
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition

Books:

  • Karylowski, J. J. (1982). O dwoch typach altruizmu: Badania nad endocentrycznymi i eqzocentrycznymi zrodlami bezinteresownych dzialan na rzecz innych ludzi. [On the two types of altruism: Studies on endocentric and exocentric sources of prosocial behavior]. Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich. (in Polish)
  • Karylowski, J. J. (1975). Z badan nad mechnizmami pozytywnych ustosunkowan interpersonalnych. [From the studies on the mechanisms of positive interpersonal attitudes]. Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich. (in Polish)
  • Staub, E., Bar-Tal, D., Karylowski, J. J., & Reykowski, J. J. (Eds.). (1984). Development and maintenance of prosocial behavior: International Perspectives. New York: Plenum Press.

Journal Articles:

  • Karylowski, J. J. (1990). Trait prototypicality and the accessibility of trait related information in self-other similarity judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 975-983.
  • Karylowski, J. J. (1989). Trait prototypicality and the asymmetry effect in self-other similarity judgments. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 4, 581-586.
  • Karylowski, J. J., & Bergeron, W. (1989). Sex role orientation of college students and their same-sex parents. Psychological Reports, 65, 699-702.
  • Karylowski, J. J., Konarzewski, K., & Motes, M. A. (2000). Recruitment of exemplars as reference points in social judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Karylowski, J. J., & Skarzynska, K. (1992). Asymmetry effect in self-other similarity judgments depends on priming. Social Cognition, 10, 235-254.
  • Karylowski, J. J., Wallace, H. M., Motes, M. A., VanLiempd, D., & Eicher, S. (2000). Proba wykorzystania techniki torowania do badania kategoryzacji spolecznej [Using priming to study social categorization]. Przeglad Psychologiczny. (in Polish)
  • Karylowski, J., Motes, M. A., Curry, D., & Van Liempd, D. (2002). "In what font color is Bill Cosby's name written?": Automatic racial categorization in a Stroop task. North American Journal of Psychology, 4, 1-12.
  • Karylowski, J., & Ranieri, J. (2006). Self as a default target in thinking about traits. Self and Identity, 5, 365-379.
  • Karylowski, J., Wallace, H. M., Motes, M. A., Harkcom, H. A., Hewlett, E. M., Maclean, S. L., Parretta, E. M., & Vaswani, C. L. (2001). Spontaneous gender-stereotypical categorization of trait labels and job labels. Current Research in Social Psychology, 6, 17-29.
  • Niewiarowski, J., & Karylowski, J. (2008). Defining traits differently for self and others. Psychological Reports, 102, 47-52.

Other Publications:

  • Karylowski, J. J. (1999). Regression toward the mean effect: No statistical background required. In M. E. Ware & D. E. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of demonstrations and activities in the teaching of psychology: Introductory, statistics, research methods, and history (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Reprinted from Teaching of Psychology).
  • Karylowski, J. J. (1993). On the (somewhat) elusive nature of asymmetric similarity judgments. In M.C. Hurtig, M.F. Pichevin, & M. Piolat (Eds.), Studies in social cognition and the self. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.

Courses Taught:

  • Computer Applications in Psychological Research
  • Experimental Social Psychology
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology

Jerzy J. Karylowski
Institute of Psychology
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Jaracza 1
00-378 Warsaw
Poland

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