doc. PhDr. Martina Hřebíčková, Dr., DSc.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Veveří 97
602 00 Brno
Phone: +420 532 290 258
E-mail: martina@psu.cas.cz
Web: Brno Lab of Intergroup Processes

Research Interests

personality psychology
lexical approach, Five-Factor Model
cross-cultural perspectives on personality
personality judgment, social cognition, stereotypes
psychodiagnostics

Education

2020 - 2021: Teacher Training Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Oxford Mindfulness Centre
2013: Habilitace a získání titulu docentka obecné psychologie na Filozofické fakultě MU v Brně
2009: DSc. title, thesis defended at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1991 - 1995: Dr. title (equivalent to Ph.D title), Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Dissertation thesis: "Five-factor structure of personality description"
1990 - 1992: Mgr. title (equivalent to MA), extended studies in Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (formerly University of J.E. Purkyne in Brno). Diploma thesis: "Language and personality determinants of social cognition"
1988: PhDr. title ("small doctorate" does not amount to PhD), Faculty of Arts, University of J.E. Purkyne in Brno
1982 - 1987: MA program in Psychology and Russian language, Faculty of Arts, University of J.E. Purkyne in Brno. Diploma thesis: "Mental hygiene in the life of young sportsmen"

Proffesional Practice

since 2008: Senior scientist at the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic
1997 - 2008: Scientist at the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1989 - 1997: Associated scientist at the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Research Projects

Principal researcher or coordinator

2024 - 2028: Grant project EH22_008/0004583 Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, co-funded by the Europian Union "Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing"
2017 - 2019: Grant project GA17-14387S Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "The effect of intergroup contact on acculturation strategies and support for minority rights: A longitudinal perspective in majority and minority"
2010 - 2012: Grant project P407/10/2394 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Intergroup Attitudes and Intergroup Contact in five Central European Countries"
2007 - 2009: Grant project 406/07/1561 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Judgement of national stereotypes in the kontext of a five-factor model"
2000 - 2002: Grant project 406/01/1507 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Agreements and the differences in self-judgments and judgments by others"
1993 - 1995: Grant project 406/93/1255, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "The structural model of personality based on lexical analysis"

Co-worker

2020 - 2022: Co-worker on grant project with prof. Mgr. Sylvie Graf, Ph.D., 20-01214S Grant Agency of the Academy of Science"Mutual perception of acculturation preferences in majority and immigrants: An intergroup perspective"
2013 - 2016: Co-worker on grant project with prof. Mgr. Sylvie Graf, Ph.D., 13-25656S Grant Agency of the Academy of Science "Determinants of Intergroup Relations: An Integrated Model of Intergroup Attitudes, Contact, Personality-, and Socially-Anchored Factors"
2007 - 2009: Co-worker on grant project with prof. PhDr. Marek Blatný, DrSc., IAA 700250702 Grant Agency of the Academy of Science "Psychological chracteristics of emerging adulthood“

International Research Projects

since 2022: Coping with Corona (CoCo), coordinators Mitja Back, University Muenster, Maarten van Zalk, University of Osnabrueck and Markus Bühner, LMU Munich
since 2021: Body Image in Nature Survey (BINS), coordinator Viren Swami, Anglia Ruskin University
since 2021: The International Investigation of the Social Perception of Protagonists in the COVID-19 Pandemic, coordinator Patrick Kotzur, Durham University
since 2019: Towards Gender Harmony, coordinator Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Gdansk University
since 2018: The International Study of Meta-norms, coordinator Kimmo Eriksson, Stockholm University
since 2017: The Cross-Cultural Project on Fundamental Social Motives, coordinator Douglas T. Kenrick Arizona State University
since 2017: Valence and Arousal Project (VAP 2017), coordinator Mischelle Yik, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
since 2012: International Situations Project, coordinator David Funder, University of California Riverside
since 2012: Value Orientation, Trust, and Social Mindfulness, coordinator Paul van Lange, Ryan Murphy and Niels van Doesum from VU University Amsterdam and ETH Zurich
2007 - 2009: Multi-Nation-Study on Gelotophobia, coordinators Willibald Ruch and René Proyer, University of Zurich
since 2007: Comparison of Six-factor Structures among Thirteen Languages, coordinator Boele De Raad, University of Groningen
since 2005: Personality Profiles of Ages across Cultures, coordinators Filip De Fruyt, University of Ghent, Robert McCrae, Antonio Terraciano NIA, Baltimore
2006 - 2007: Dispositional Resistance to Change: Measurement equivalence across cultures, coordinator Shaul Oreg, Univerity of Haifa
2001 - 2004: Personality Profiles across Cultures, coordinator Robert McCrae, NIA, Baltimore

Teaching

2021: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L), Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno
2002, 2003: Five-Factor Model in psychodiagnostics, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno

Organisational Activities in Scientific Community

2007 - 2017: Deputy director in the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
since 2013: Head of the Department of Personality Psychology and Social Psychology in the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
2012 - 2022: Členka Rady Psychologického ústavu AV ČR, v. v. i.
since 2016: Členka Expertního panelu Společenské vědy – SHVc při RVVI
since 2021: Členka Odborného panelu 5. Social Sciences při RVVI
since 2016: Členka, od r. 2021 místopředsedkyně Komise programů na podporu vědy na UK pro oblast humanitních a společenských věd (HUM)
since 2018: Členka vědecké rady UK
2007 - 2010: member, since 2008 Chairwoman of the Department council "Social and economical sciences" of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2011 - 2015: Member, since 2014 Chairwoman of Ethics commission CMPS

Scientific Award

2002: Awarded the Otto Wichterle prize for an excellent young scientific professional, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Membership in Scientific Associations

European Association of Personality Psychology
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology

Selected Publications

Hrebickova, M., Graf, S.: Accuracy of national stereotypes in central Europe: Outgroups are not better than ingroup in considering personality traits of real people. European Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1002/per.1904
Hrebickova, M. (2013): Přesnost regionálních stereotypů a mechanismy jejich vytváření. Československá psychologie, 57, 3, 230-245
Borkenau, P., Hrebickova, M., Kuppens, P., Ralo, A., Allik, J. (2013): Sex differences in variability in personality: A study in four samples. Journal of Personality, 81,1, 49-60.
Hrebickova, M., Kourilova, S. (2012). Jak se vidime, jak nas vidi a jaci jsme: porovnani narodnho auto- a heterostereotypu s posuzovanim realnych lidi v kontextu petifaktoroveho modelu osobnosti. [How do we see ourselves, how are we seen and how we are: Comparison of national auto- and heterostereotypes with ratings of real people in context of five-factor model of personality.] Ceskoslovenska psychologie.
Hrebickova, M. (2011): Petifaktorovy model v psychologii osobnosti: pristupy, diagnostika, uplatneni [Five-Factor Model in Personality Psychology: Approaches, Diagnostics, Application]. Praha, Grada.