Mgr. et Mgr. Kristína Czekóová, Ph.D.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Veveří 97
602 00 Brno
Phone: +420 532 290 282
E-mail: czekoova@psu.cas.cz

Research Interests

• Individual differences in social cognition, emotions, and decision-making in healthy and clinical populations
• Neuropsychology
• Neuroscience
• Evaluation of experimental methods
• Data-driven analytical techniques

Education

• 2011: General psychology (Ph.D.), Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University
• 2006: Psychology (Mgr.), Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Research Stays

• 2-10/2010: Brain & Body Centre, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
• 2-7/2005: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)

Past Projects

• 2018-2020: Back-and-forth: Investigating the balance between self- and other-goals in negotiation with dual-fMRI (GA18-21791S)
• 2017-2019: The styles of ego integrity in the life stories of older adults: a narrative approach (GA17-02634S)
• 2016-2018: Improving driver rehabilitation programs: A neurobehavioural evaluation of Empathy Induction (GA16-18261S)
• 2017-2018: Understanding social deficits in autism: A dual-fMRI investigation using the iterated Ultimatum Game, Czech Bioimaging
• 2015-2017: Individual differences in self-other distinction (GA15-16738S)
• 2012-2014: Complexity as an expression of the psychological life of an individual (GAP407/12/2432)

Selected Publications

• Czekóová, K., & Urbánek, T. (2024). Validity of Intelligence Assessment Among the Roma Minority Population. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 42(2), 192-206. doi:10.1177/07342829231213791 
• Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Mareček, R., Špiláková, B. H., & Brázdil, M. (2023). The interacting brain: dynamic functional connectivity among canonical brain networks dissociates cooperative from competitive social interactions. NeuroImage, 269, 119933. doi: 1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119933
• Czekóová, K., Shaw, D. J., Lamoš, M., Špiláková, B. H., Salazar, M., Roman, R., & Brázdil, M. (2022). A high‐density EEG investigation into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying differences between personality profiles in social information processing. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 63(5), 484-494. doi: 1111/sjop.12824
• Salazar, M., Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Staněk, R., & Brázdil, M. (2022). The role of generalised reciprocity and reciprocal tendencies in the emergence of cooperative group norms. Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102520. doi: 1016/j.joep.2022.102520
• Czekóová, K., Shaw, D. J., Lamoš, M., Špiláková, B., Salazar, M., & Brázdil, M. (2021) Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3758/s13415-020-00860-y
• Salazar, M., Shaw, D. J., Gajdoš, M., Mareček, R., Czekóová, K., Mikl, M., & Brázdil, M. (2021). You took the words right out of my mouth: Dual-fMRI reveals intra-and inter-personal neural processes supporting verbal interaction. NeuroImage 228, 117697. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117697
• Czekóová, K., Shaw, D. J., Pokorná, Z., & Brázdil, M. (2020). Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 563. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00563
• Špiláková, B., Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Mareček, R., & Brázdil, M. (2020). Getting into sync: Data‐driven analyses reveal patterns of neural coupling that distinguish among different social exchanges. Human Brain Mapping, 41(4), 1072-1083.doi: 10.1002/hbm.24861
• Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Špiláková, B., Salazar, M., Řezáč, P., Kurečková, V., Zámečník, P., & Brázdil, M. (2020). A neuroscientific evaluation of driver rehabilitation: Functional neuroimaging demonstrates the effectiveness of empathy induction in altering brain responses during social information processing. PLoS one, 15(4), e0232222. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232222
• Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Pennington, C. R., Qureshi, A. W., Špiláková, B., Salazar, M., & Urbánek, T. (2020). You ≠ Me: Individual differences in the structure of social cognition. Psychological Research, 84, 1139-1156. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1107-3

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