Kuba Krys
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I received a master degrees in international affairs and economics from Warsaw School of Economics in 2005. However, I became fascinated with psychology and completed my PhD degree at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, researching the social functions of amusement under the supervision of Bogdan Wojciszke.
Since 2012, I've worked in the Cultural Psychology Laboratory. I focus on the areas common to cultural psychology and positive psychology (e.g., smiling, positive emotions). But my economic background makes me uncomfortable with the small-scale cooperation between cross-cultural psychologists and macroeconomists; I would like to launch a broad intercultural project on a culturally sensitive development index soon.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
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Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Measuring Happiness Across the World
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Webinar hosted by the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies
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Journal Articles:
- Krys, K. (2010). May amusement serve as a social courage engine? Polish Psychological Bulletin, 41(2), 67-73.
- Krys, K., Dominguez-Espinosa, A., & Uchida, Y. (2023). Bridging Cross-Cultural Psychology With Societal Development Studies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(2), 165-169.
- Krys, K., Hansen, K., Xing, C., Espinosa, A. D., Szarota, P., & Morales, M. F. (2015). It is better to smile to women: Gender modifies perception of honesty of smiling individuals across cultures. International Journal of Psychology, 50(2), 150-154.
- Krys, K., Hansen, K., Xing, C., Szarota, P., & Yang, M. M. (2013). Do only fools smile at strangers? Cultural differences in social perception of intelligence of smiling individuals. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(2), 314-321.
- Krys, K., Kostoula, O., van Tilburg, W. A. P., Mosca, O., Lee, J. H., Maricchiolo, F., Kosiarczyk, A., Kocimska-Zych, A., Torres, C., Hitokoto, H., Liew, K., Bond, M. H., Lun, V. M.-Ch., Vignoles, V. L., Zelenski, J. M., Haas, B. W., Park, J., Vauclair, Ch. M., Kwiatkowska, A. ... Uchida, Y. (2024). Happiness maximization is a WEIRD way of living. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20(5), 874-902.
- Krys, K., Vauclair, C-M., Capaldi, C. A., Lun, V. M-C., Bond, M. H., Domínguez-Espinosa, A., Torres, C., Lipp, O. V., Manickam, L. S. S., Xing, C., Antalíková, R., Pavlopoulos, V., Teyssier, J., Hur, T., Hansen, K., Szarota, P., Ahmed, R. A., Burtceva, E., Chkhaidze, A., ... Yu, A. A. (2016). Be careful where you smile: Culture shapes judgments of intelligence and honesty of smiling individuals. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 101-116.
- Krys, K., Vignoles, V., Uchida Y., & de Almeida, I. (2022). Outside the "cultural binary": Understanding why Latin American collectivist societies foster independent selves. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(4), 1166-1187.
- Krys, K., & Wojciszke, B. (2013). Analysis of selected changes in the social functioning of amused individuals. Psychologia Społeczna, 8, 277-289.
- Krys, K., de Almeida, I., Wasiel, A., & Vignoles, V. L. (2025). WEIRD–Confucian comparisons: Ongoing cultural biases in psychology’s evidence base and some recommendations for improving global representation. American Psychologist, 80(2), 247-263.
- Krys, K., & Świderski, F. (2014). Heaven may be sought not only in the sky, but also on the ground. Compensation of affiliative and sense needs. Przegląd Psychologiczny, 57, 515-526.
- Olechowski, M., Górski, M. R., Joshanloo, M., Hussain, M. A., Wasiel, A., Yeung, V. W. L., Bond, M. H., Haas, B. W., Guemaz, F., Boussena, M., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Iter, N., Vlasenko, O., Lun, V. M.-C., Li, L. M. W., Aminnuddin, N. A., Işık, İ., Ndiaye, D. G., Fülöp, M., ... Krys, K. (2025). Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102227.
- Palikot, E., Marszalek, M., & Krys, K. (2025). Words of well-being: Language reveals differences in the relational nature of five components of subjective well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-15.
- Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Górski, M. R., Joshanloo, M., Krys, K., Tønnessen, M., Li, L. M. W., Akaliyski, P., Haas, B. W., Hussain, M. A., Guemaz, F., Boussena, M., Iter, N., Vlasenko, O., Lun, V. M.-C., Vignoles, V. L., Aminnuddin, N. A., Işık, İ., Ngom-Dieng, L., Fülöp, M., Igbokwe, D., ... Bond, M.H. (2025). Mind the gap: Perceived economic inequality and the well-being gap around the globe. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Wasiel, A., Górski, M., Bond, M. H., Yeung, V., Akaliyski, P., Akello, G., Park, J., Joshanloo, M., Sokolov, B., Hussain, M. A., Li, L. M. W., Olechowski, M., Vignoles, V. L., Guemaz, F., Boussena, M., Reza-A-Rabby, M., Okvitawanli, A., Myślińska-Szarek, K., Haas, B. W., ... Krys, K. (2025). Examining the connection of position-based power to social status across seventy cultures. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12871.
Other Publications:
- Hekiert, D., Safdar, S., Boski, P., Krys, K., & Lewis, J. R. (2016). Culture display rules of smiling and personal well-being: Mutually reinforcing or compensatory phenomena? Polish-Canadian comparisons. In C. Roland-Lévy, P. Denoux, B. Voyer, P. Boski, & W. K. Gabrenya Jr. (Eds.), Unity, diversity and culture. Proceedings from the 22nd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.
- Krys, K. (2012). I don’t like Russia, because I don’t like myself—about the role of lowered self-esteem in prejudice towards Russia, In J. Karwat (Ed.), Komunikowanie społeczne (pp. 219-232). Poznań: Wydawnictwo WSHiU.
Courses Taught:
- Cultural Diversity of Positive Aspects of Human Behavior
Kuba Krys
Institute of Psychology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Jaracza 1
00-378 Warsaw
Poland
