Psychologist in the RöCognition project. In her research work she deals with issues of lying and lie detection as well as witness memory. She supports trial participants by pointing out cognitive techniques as well as those that reduce the stress of participating in trial activities. She has also worked with Rö’s legal team in the selection of arguments in pleadings, identifying the argumentative trajectory used by the opposing party. In addition, using her scientific knowledge of conflict resolution methods and analysing the other side’s perspective, she helped to bring about mediation and work out an amicable solution to a dispute worth several million PLN.

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Joanna is a professor at the Institute of Psychology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She trains lawyers in lie detection methods. She is the author of numerous scientific texts published in Polish and international journals and presentations at international scientific conferences. She popularises science, e.g. by writing popular science articles in Polityka and Gazeta Wyborcza. She also has many years of experience working in business. She has also worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin and led a research project funded by the National Science Centre on witness memory distortion. She collaborates with researchers from the US, UK and Germany.