Professor Maria Lewicka from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń has been awarded this year’s prize by the Foundation for Polish Science. She was awarded in the area of humanities and social sciences, the university reports. 

Her research interests include the psychology of place, local identity, memory of place (Central and Eastern Europe with particular emphasis on Ukraine and Lithuania), as well as social valuation processes, social and cultural capital, social perception and intergroup relations, and mechanisms of human (in)rationality.

The prizes of the Foundation for Polish Science, known as the Polish Nobel Prizes, have been awarded since 1992 for outstanding scientific achievements and discoveries that push the boundaries of cognition and open new cognitive perspectives, make an outstanding contribution to the civilisational and cultural progress of the country and ensure Poland’s prominent place in tackling the most ambitious challenges of the contemporary world. 

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