When I was a little girl, I looked like a little boy. People asked me about my favorite football players (I didn't have one) and the cars I liked the most (I didn't have an opinion). It was frustrating! I was a girl after all! However, it had it's perks: it gave me the right to behave in any way I wanted, without having to hear that ladies don't act that way. So I took advantage of it for as long as I could.

Right now I am a researcher and I study gender stereotypes. I'm interested in mis/conceptions about what does it mean to be a wo/man and the research I'm conducting for my thesis concerns the differences in social perception of men and women and of their behaviors and feelings.

I think that my childhood experiences might have had something to do with what my research is about.

I'm originally from Gdansk, Poland. I used to live in Reykjavik, Iceland. Nowadays I spend most of my time in Toulouse, France where I raise my trilingual toddler and a miniature bunny.

Publications:
Studzińska, A.M, Wojciszke. B. (2014). Przekonania o genezie różnic płci a legitymizacja nierówności kobiet i mężczyzn [Beliefs in Origins of Sex Differences and Legitimization of Inequality of Men and Women].Psychologia Społeczna.
Studzinska, A.M., & Hilton, D. (in press). Minimization of male suffering: Perception of victims and perpetrators of opposite-sex sexual coercion. Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
Bialobrzeska, O., Parzuchowski M., Studzinska, A.M., Baryla, W., & Wojciszke, B. (under review). Propensity to take the agent perspective influences the relative importance of agency versus communion in evaluations of self and others. Personality and Individual Differences.
Studzinska, A.M. (in preparation). The prevalence and consequences of sexual harassment in Poland.

Grants:
2013 - 2016 Research grant for "Differences in perception of sexual harassment, depending on the sex of victims and perpetrators - the minimization of male trauma effect" from Polish National Science Center, grant number: 2012/05/N/HS6/03973, $45000
2012/2013 two travel grants funded by the Director of Laboratory Contexte social et régulation de la cognition (University ot Toulouse II – Le Mirail)
2011/2012, 2010/2011 travel grants funded by the Doctoral School at The University of Social Sciences and Humanities
2010/2011 travel grant funded by the Dean of Psychology Department at The University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Teaching experience:
Social Psychology I, Social Psychology II, Empirical Paper (in Polish)
Data processing and analysis – quantitative data; Social Psychology 1, Social Psychology 2 (in French)

Research interests:
gender psychology, stereotypes, person perception, system legitimization, sexual harassment