Anna Karczmarczyk, PhD

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Vice-director of the Institute of Information and Communication Research
Assistant Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to bodily self-awareness and its disturbances, early forms of social cognition, and attachment theory. I am particularly interested in integrating philosophical and psychological perspectives on the bodily self. My recent work addresses the role of interpersonal interactions in shaping affective bodily awareness. I also explore the developmental origins of emotions and interoception in relation to attachment. A central focus of my research is emotion regulation processes within the infant–caregiver dyad. In addition, I investigate the links between attachment and affective theory of mind. Currently, I am especially engaged in analyzing the notion of attachment within the framework of classical and contemporary theories of emotion.

Selected Publications

  1. Karczmarczyk, A. (2025). Embodied Beginnings: Touch as a Developmental Foundation of Self-Awareness. AVANT 16(2). https://doi.org/10.26913/ava22501
  2. Karczmarczyk, A. (2024). Bodily Self-Awareness from a Developmental Perspective. Nicolaus Copernicus University Press. (Originally published in Polish as Samoświadomość cielesna w perspektywie rozwojowej.)

Full list of publications on: Omega

Projects and Grants

  • Member of the research group “Culture, Childhood and Cognition: How Parental and Grandparental Beliefs Shape Child Development in the 21st Century” IDUB NCU (present).
  • Member of the INTERMINDS Lab, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, NCU (present).
  • Member of the research group “Emerging Research Field: Culture, Development, and Well-Being,” IDUB NCU (2024–2026).
  • Principal Investigator of the project Reading & Mind-reading contest „Nauka dla Społeczeństwa”, Minister of Education and Science (2024).
  • Scientific Supervisor of the Grants4NCUStudents project “The relation between interoceptive awareness and susceptibility to full-body illusion” (2023-2024).
  • Member of the research group “Emerging Research Field: Perception, Cognition and Language,” IDUB NCU (2021–2023).

Academic Activities

  • Co-organizer of the conference Perspectives on Child Development: Social Learning and Interaction (UMK, Toruń, 19–21 June 2025)
  • Main organizer of the conference Neuromania (UMK, Toruń, 13–14 September 2024)
  • Co-organizer of the conference Perspective Taking and Mental Rotation (UMK & University of Hong Kong, Toruń, 6–8 May 2024)
  • Co-organizer of Brain Awareness Week (BAW) (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • Reviewer for academic journals: Roczniki Filozoficzne and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
  • Co-founder of the academic journal AVANT.
  • Academic Supervisor of the Toruń Cognitive Science Student Association.
  • Member of the Polish Cognitive Science Society.

Contact

Email: a.karczmarczyk[@]umk.pl
Office: Room 214, Institute of Psychology Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 39, 87-100 Toruń, Poland