przemyslaw.babel@uj.edu.pl

Zakład Psychologii Ogólnej

ul. Ingardena 6, room 3.21, room 5.19
tel. 12 663 24 73

Office hours
Monday 10:00-11:00, romm 3.21 

Office hours for students
Tuesday 11:30-12:30, romm 5.19

director of Jagiellonian University Institute of Psychology
chair of Jagiellonian University Research Discipline Council for Psychology
head of the Pain Research Group
member of the Rector’s Research Board
member of the Faculty of Philosophy Scientific Board
president of the Polish Society of Behavioral Psychology
member of the Committee on Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences 
member of the Committee on Psychological Sciences of the Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow
thematic editor for clinical psychology of the Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology
executive editor of the Annals of Psychology
member of the Scientific Board of Pain
member of the Scientific Committee of Psychological Review

• psychology of pain with a special interest in psychological factors that modulate pain perception and pain memory
• psychology of placebo with a special interest in learning mechanisms of placebo effects
• behavior analysis with a special interest in the therapy of persons with autism spectrum disorder
• psychology of education with a special interest in increasing the effectiveness of teaching and upbringingand memory training 

• The observation that does (not) hurt. Observational learning of placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by operant conditioning (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2022-03-15-ako9z8/streszczenia/554553-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 21, 2023-2026, Supervisor) 
• PANACEA “Special Needs by Placebo”: Programme to Advise, Normalize And Control its European Administration – the research project funded by the European Union (ERASMUS+, 2022-2025, Principal Investigator of the Jagiellonian University team)
• Reinforcement of the open-label placebo effect. Determining and comparing the effectiveness of different learning processes in producing the non-deceptive placebo effect (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2021-03-15bhga1/streszczenia/521441-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 20, 2022-2025, Supervisor) 
• Un(learning) pain by consequences. Development of the learning theory of placebo effects (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2020-06-15vpaw/streszczenia/491348-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (MAESTRO 12, 2021-2026, Principal Investigator)
• Overcome the nocebo effect with the placebo effect. The use of learning processes to reverse nocebo hyperalgesia (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2020-09-30apsv2/streszczenia/498301-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (OPUS 20, 2021-2026, Key Investigator)
• Learning and unlearning pain from others. Verification and extension of the social learning model of placebo effects in pain (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2019-09-16/streszczenia/463390-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (OPUS 18, 2020-2024, Principal Investigator)
• Colors of pain. Mechanisms of the effects of colors on pain perception (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2019-09-16/streszczenia/465477-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 18, 2020-2023, Supervisor)
• Social context of pain. The effect of social information concerning pain on pain experience and pain memory (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2016-09-15/streszczenia/352662-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (OPUS 12, 2017-2022, Principal Investigator) 
• The role of classical and operant conditioning in the origin of subjective and physiological pain experiences (Podlinkować: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2016-09-15/streszczenia/352391-en.pdf) – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 12, 2017-2022, Supervisor)
• The role of expectancy and anxiety in the genesis of placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by classical conditioning and verbal suggestions – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (SONATA BIS 4, 2015-2020, Principal Investigator)
• Placebo mechanisms in voluntary joystick movement paradigm – factors influencing the formation and magnitude of the resulting effect – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 5, 2014-2017, Investigator)
• Time perspective, postoperative pain perception and coping strategies in pain – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (OPUS 5, 2014-2017, Key Investigator)
• Does the affect fade when the pain grows? Memory for pain and the fading affect bias – the research project funded by the National Science Centre (2011-2014, Principal Investigator)
• Memory for pain and the fading affect bias: Dental pain and experimental pain – the research project funded by the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (2011-2012, Principal Investigator)
• Factors determining distortions of memories for pain – the research project funded by the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (2010, Principal Investigator)

For the publications list visit RUJ.

• Komitet Psychologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk 
• Association for Psychological Science (APS Fellow) 
• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 
• Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS) 
• Psychonomic Society
• Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) 
• Canadian Pain Society
• Komitet Psychologii Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie 
• Polskie Towarzystwo Psychologii Behavioralnej 
• Polskie Towarzystwo Badania Bólu

Awards

• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2021)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2020)
• Association for Psychological Science Fellow (2019) awarded for having made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2019)
• The Prime Minister’s Award for highly valued achievements based on which the degree of a habilitated doctor of science was awarded (2018)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2018)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2017)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2016)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2014)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in work for an organization (2013)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2012)
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in teaching (2011) received on the basis of the results of students’ evaluation of the classes
• The Rector’s of the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in work for an organization (2009)
• The Head’s of the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University Award for achievements in scientific work (2009)
• The President’s of Polish Academy of Sciences Award „Golden Mind - Master in Knowledge Promotion” (2008)
• The Scholarship of St. Estreicher’s Foundation (2000-2001)