The Cognition & Communication Research Group (CCRG) with PhD Students
We are proud to announce that two PhD Students of Doctoral School build the team of The Cognition & Communication Research Group (CCRG).
The Cognition & Communication Research Group (CCRG) was established in September 2016 in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Szczecin,
as part of a 3-year research project founded by the National Science Centre, Poland, (Grant No. 2015/19/B/HS1/03306).
CCRG is the interdisciplinary group of researchers with backgrounds in philosophy, pragmatics, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, and behavioural economics.
Their aim is to integrate insights from these different research domains to better understand mechanisms underlying cognitive and communicative processes.
The Coordinator of CCRG is prof. dr hab. Maciej Witek (Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science).
The PhD Students angaged in the projects are:
Franciszek M. Świergiel has a background in cultural and literary studies, as well as cognitive science, focusing primarily on textual and visual communication within cultural contexts. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Szczecin’s Doctoral School, where he concentrates on pragmatic theories and methods of information transmission, as considered through the lense of a primarily philosophical approach.
Janina Mękarska holds a master’s degree from the Interdisciplinary Advanced Studies program, where she specialized in cognitive communication (dissertation subject: The Role of Empathy in the Interpretation of Ironic Statements) and sociology (dissertation subject: Mental Health Norms: The Utility of Traits Recognized as Distinctive for Psychopathy in the Labor Market). She is pursuing her PhD at the Doctoral School of the University of Szczecin. She is focusing on her dissertation titled Bias in the Study of Cognitive Processes in Non-Human Animals, Using Theory of Mind as a Case Study. Her primary research interests center on cognitive mechanisms in social cognition, especially those that influence how attitudes are adopted, maintained, and changed.