Denise Andrzejewski

Role
Assistant Professor - Department of Psychology
Section
School of Social Sciences
Email
Denise Andrzejewski

About

Denise Andrzejewski is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Heriot-Watt University Dubai, having joined in 2023. She teaches various undergraduate courses in the Psychology programme, specializing in dissertation writing, research methods, and social psychology. Denise has over a decade of international corporate experience in administration, management, human resources, training, and leadership.

Biography

Academic Leadership and Affiliations:

  • Doctoral Fellow, Doctoral School of Cognition, Behavior, and Neuroscience, University of Vienna

Qualifications:

  • MSc Applied Psychology, Middlesex University, 2018
  • BSc Psychology, University of Derby, 2022
Research

Besides her PhD research on human intelligence and the Flynn Effect, her interdisciplinary research is wide-ranging but generally focusses around social and psychological aspects of Mental Health, culture, and identity.  

Areas of interest: Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Personality Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology

Active research interests:

  • Intelligence and the Flynn Effect
  • Creativity and Curiosity
  • Stigma, Identity, and Mental Health in the Middle East
  • Mortality salience, Terror Management Theory, and threats to self
  • Sleep and Bedtime procrastination
  • Body Image across cultures
  • Research Methods
Publications
  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FRelD4QAAAAJ&hl=en
  • Andrzejewski, D., Zeilinger, E. L., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Is there a Flynn effect for attention? Cross-temporal meta-analytical evidence for better test performance (1990–2021). Personality and Individual Differences, 216, 112417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112417
  • Kotera, Y., Andrzejewski, D., Dosedlova, J., Taylor, E., Edwards, A.-M. & Blackmore, C. (2022) Mental Health of Czech University Students: Negative Mental Health Attitudes, Mental Health Shame, and Self-Compassion. Healthcare https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10040676
  • Kotera, Y., Dosedlova, J., Andrzejewski, D., Kaluzeviciute, G., & Sakai, M. (2021). From Stress to Psychopathology: Relationship with Self-Reassurance and Self-Criticism in Czech University Students. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00516-z
  • Bertl, B., Andrzejewski, D., Hyland, L., Shrivastava, A., Russell, D., & Pietschnig, J. (2019). My grade, my right: Linking academic entitlement to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-019-09509-2