Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

  • Postdoc Researcher for The Anna Freud Centre Baby Lab
  • Early Stage Researcher for DISCOS - Marie-Curie Research Training Network
  • Honorary RA at University College London, Research Department of Educational, Clinical and Health Psychology
Education

  • PhD, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 2008
  • Visiting Fulbright Assistant Researcher, Yale University, Language & Cognition Lab, Sep 2006 - Jan 2007
  • M.A. studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 1998-2001
  • M.A., Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, 2001
Publications

  • Platten, L., Hernik, M., Fonagy, P. & Fearon, P. (2010). Knowing Who Likes Who: The Early Developmental Basis of Coalition Understanding. European Journal of Social Psychology 40, 569-580. pdf format
  • Hernik, M. & Csibra, G. (2009). Functional understanding facilitates learning about tools in human children. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19(1), 34-38. pdf format
  • Hernik, M., Fearon, P., & Fonagy, P. (2009). There must be more to development of mindreading and metacognition than passing false belief tasks. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32(2), 147-148. [Commentary on P. Carruthers (2009). How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition. BBS 32, 121-182.] pdf format
  • Hernik, M. & Gokieli, M. (2008). Does your dog know what you think? In S.D. Hales (ed.) What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Dog. Chicago: Open Court.
  • Hernik, M. (2005). Functions, intentions and artifact concepts. In B. Bokus (ed.) Studies in the Psychology of Child Language. In honor of Grace Wales Shugar (pp. 181-191). Warsaw: Matrix.
  • Jacennik, B., Babiuk, A., Hernik, M., Plecinski, T., & Smolka, P. (2002). Ecological attitudes in student populations [in Polish]. Warsaw: MSOS UW.

Manuscripts forthcoming / in preparation

  • Hernik, M. & Southgate, V. (under review). Does preference information generate, rather than modulate, goal attribution in 9-month-old infants?
  • Hernik, M. & Haman, M. (in preparation). The Design Stance in Preschoolers.
  • Hernik (in press, 2010). Stay cognitive while waiting for a theory of enactive embodied social-cognitive development: A commentary on Fuchs & De-Jaegher.
Conference posters

  • Hernik, M. , Haman, M. (2010, Jan). Fourteen-month-olds transfer sequences of features derived from internally-driven object transformation. Cognitive Developmenat Center Opening Conference , Central European University, Budapest.
  • Hernik, M. (2009, Aug). Sensitivity to motion-cues of intentional agency across ontogeny: a nonverbal one-trial task. The 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Budapest.
  • Hernik, M. (2009, Feb). Adults' sensitivity to Motion-cues of Intentional Agency: A looking-time study. ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy.
  • Hernik, M. (2008, Sep). Looking behaviour reveals adults' sensitivity to motion cues of intentional agency. Theory of Mind 30th Anniversary Workshop, University of Nottingham, UK.
  • Hernik, M. (2007, Oct). Point it for me with your chin if you have a good reason. Cognitive Development Society 5th Biennial Meetnig, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abstract: pdf format
  • Hernik, M. (2005, Oct). Would you please turn on your goal-attribution system? Priming goal identification in adults. Cognitive Development Society 4th Biennial Meetnig, San Diego, California. Abstract: pdf format
  • Hernik, M. (2004, Jul). Functional information and development of artifact concepts. First Joint Conference of the SPP and EuroSPP, Barcelona.
  • Hernik, M., Haman, M. (2003, Oct). Intended function can be important in artifact categorization by preschoolers. Cognitive Development Society 3rd Biennial Meetnig, Park City, Utah. Abstract: pdf format

Polish translations from English: Books

  • Frith, U. (2003). Autism. Explaining the Enigma (Second edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Frith., U. (2008) Autyzm. Wyjasnienie tajemnicy. Gdansk: Gdanskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne. [with Grzegorz Krajewski]link

  • Leonard, L. (1998). Children with specific language impairment. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Leonard, L. (2006). SLI - Specyficzne zaburzenie rozwoju jezykowego. O dzieciach, ktore nie potrafia mowic. Gdansk: Gdanskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne. link

  • Glock, H. J. (1996). A Wittgenstein Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Glock, H. J. (2002). Slownik Wittgensteinowski. Warszawa: Fundacja Aletheia. [with Michal Szczubialka]

  • Williams, B. (1996). Morality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Williams, B. (2000). Moralnosc. Warszawa: Fundacja Aletheia.

  • Warburton, N. (1999). Philosophy: The Basic. London: Routledge.
  • Warburton, N. (1999). Filozofia od podstaw. Warszawa: Fundacja Aletheia.

  • Hanfling, O. (1997). A. J. Ayer. Analysing what we mean. Phoenix Pub.
  • Hanfling, O. (1997). Ayer. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Amber.

Polish translations from English: Papers

  • Rice, M. (1984). Cognitive Aspects of Communicative Development. In R. Schiefelbusch & J. Pickar (eds.) The Acquisition of Communicative Competence. Baltimore: University Park Press.
  • Rice, M. (2007). Poznawcze aspekty rozwoju komunikacyjnego. W: B. Bokus, G. W. Shugar (eds.). Psychologia jezyka dziecka. Gdansk: Gdanskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne.

  • Taylor, M. (1996). A Theory of Mind Perspective on Social Cognitive Development. In R. Gelman & T. KF. Au (eds.) Perceptual and Cognitive Development. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Taylor, M. (2007). Rozwoj poznania spolecznego z perspektywy teorii umyslu. In B. Bokus, G. W. Shugar (eds.). Psychologia jezyka dziecka. Gdansk: Gdanskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne.

  • Kozielecki, J. (1995). The Polish economic reform: Transgressive decision making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 16, 175-204.
  • Kozielecki, J. (2006). Reforma polskiej gospodarki: studium decyzji transgresyjnych. In E. Aranowska, M. Goszczynska (eds.). Czlowiek wobec wyzwan i dylematow wspolczesnosci. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.

  • Lukasiewicz, J. (1954). On a controversial problem of Aristotle's modal syllogistic. Dominican Studies, 7, 114-128.
  • Lukasiewicz, J. (1998). O pewnym spornym problemie arystotelesowskiej sylogistyki modalnej. In J. Lukasiewicz. Logika i Metafizyka. Warszawa: Wydzial Filozofii i Socjologii UW.

  • Lukasiewicz, J. (1998). Komentarz do uwagi Cohena. In J. Lukasiewicz. Logika i Metafizyka. Warszawa: Wydzial Filozofii i Socjologii UW.
Grants

  • 2005 European Society for Cognitive Psychology Young Researcher Grant: Priming goal identification in adults.
  • 2005 State Committee for Scientific Research: The concept of intention in the development of theory of mind and naive theory of artifacts [supervisor: Maciej Haman].
  • 2005 University of Warsaw, BST: The concept of intention in adults and preschoolers.
  • 2004 University of Warsaw, BW: Intention as a complex representation of the goal and the way to achieve it.
  • 2003 University of Warsaw, BW: From teleological stance to folk psychology.
Scholarships

  • Junior Fulbright Advanced Research Grant for a visit at Language & Cognition Lab, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Sep 2006 - Jan 2007.
  • Three SUN Scholarships for participation in summer schools, Central European University, Budapeszt, 2004, 2005, & 2007.
  • CEEPUS freemover mobility grant for participation in summer school, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 2005.
Activities

  • Research visit at Yale University, Paul Bloom's Language & Cognition Lab, Sep 2006 - Jan 2007.
  • Cognitive Development Society, student member
  • Centre for Philosophical Research, member
  • Summer schools:
    • Understanding Actions and Minds, Jul 5-16, 2004, Central European University, Budapest.
    • Cultural Learning, Jul 4-15, 2005, Central European University, Budapest.
    • Cognition and Culture, Jul 4-12, 2007, Central European University, Budapest.
    • 12th International Summer School in Cognitive Science, Jul 25 - Aug 13 , 2005, New Bulgarian University, Sofia.
    • 13th International Summer School in Cognitive Science, Jul 3 - 22, 2006, New Bulgarian University, Sofia.
  • Ad hoc reviewer for: Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Infancy.
Teaching

  • Naive Theories of Mind [a seminar, 30 hours, 7 times 2003-2007, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology]
  • Representational Theory of Mind in Philosophy and Psychology
    [interdisciplinary workshop with Marcin Gokieli, 60 hours in 2003-2004, University of Warsaw, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities]
  • Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development [lectures in English, 15 hours, 2007, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology]
  • E-prime workshop [6 hours, 2009, The Anna Freud Centre / Yale Child Study Center, PDN MSc programme]