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- 2024-07-07
Cykl kolaży "Pocztówki z wojny"
"Postcards from War" is an artistic-historical exploration inspired by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The project collages Soviet propaganda postcards with contemporary war photographs. This juxtaposition highlights both the ideological source and the grim reality of imperialist aspirations. The project also pays homage to Martha Rosler's book "House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home" (1967–1972). The works were presented as part of the exhibition "Lost Territories. Tracing Imperial Violence" by the Sputnik Photos collective (of which Agnieszka Rayss is a member and co-founder) at Fotodok in Utrecht from November 27, 2025, to March 1, 2026. The exhibition was organized with the financial support of the City of Utrecht and the Mondriaan Fund. The project was first made public as part of the international Archivo LAB 2024 project "Archivo and Conflict", during an open video meeting on July 7, 2024. Selected works from the series were printed in 50 copies, in size 24 x 30 cm, and are available on the Archivo website. - 2025-11-14
Cykl fotografii i kolaży "Szlify"
The subject of Agnieszka Rayss's "Grinds" series of photographs and collages is the materiality of raw glass and its multifaceted presence at the Julia glassworks. Crystal glass appears in several forms, at various stages of its existence in the form of decorated vessels. From its immaterial, purely pictorial presence in the drawings of design concepts in the factory archive, through semi-finished glass in the form of transparent pellets awaiting melting in the furnace, or a vessel with a mesh applied to it ready for decoration, to production-damaged waste. The series of works was presented at an exhibition at the BWA Wrocław SiC Gallery from November 14, 2025, to March 8, 2026. In addition to Agnieszka Rayss, the exhibition featured works by Aleksander Baszyński, Katarzyna Harasym, and Ewa Klekot. Agnieszka Rayss, together with Ewa Klekot, served as curators for the exhibition. The exhibition was organised by BWA Wrocław, co-organised by the Julia Crystal Glassworks, and the SWPS University was the substantive partner and co-financer of the event. - 2020
Cykl fotografii "Ostatnia rozmowa z akademikiem Sacharowem"
The series "Last Conversation with Academician Sakharov" is a 2020 photo essay about the nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. The series of photographs was presented during the exhibition "Lost Territories. Tracing Imperial Violence" at the Fotodok gallery in Utrecht from November 27, 2025 to March 1, 2026, along with the presentation of a 2022 photography book published by Sputnik Photos, containing works from the series and their descriptions. The 2025 publication was presented at an exhibition of photography books during the 15th edition of the Opole Festival of Photography and was included in the Opole Collection of Polish Photographic Books. In 2023, it received the distinction of "Photopublication of the Year 2023" awarded by the Foundation for Visual Education. The series of photographs was first presented to the public in 2020 at a group exhibition at the "Artbook Fair" festival in Kaunas, organized by the "Fotofestiwal" festival in Łódź, the Krakow Month of Photography, and the TIFF International Photography Festival in Wrocław. In 2023, the series of works was presented at the "(Un)Told" exhibition at the Zbrojownia Sztuki Gallery in Gdańsk and at the Rencontres de la Photographie Arles festival in France. - 2025-11-27
Praca video "Miru Mir"
Agnieszka Rayss's video work "Miru Mir" was filmed in Pyramiden, an abandoned Soviet mining town on the island of Spitsbergen in Arctic Norway. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was a model socialist settlement. This small settlement included a cultural center, sports complex, swimming pool, cafeteria, and school, serving a community of approximately 1,000 miners and their families. "Miru Mir" is a Soviet motto from the 1950s meaning "peace for the world." Agnieszka Rayss's video work contemplates the absurd reality that the Soviet Union, arming itself to the teeth during the Cold War (1947–1991), declared its wish for world peace. The contradictions in the word "mir" are even more profound today. In 2025, the work was presented during the Sputnik Photos collective exhibition (of which Agnieszka Rayss is a member and co-founder) entitled "Lost Territories. Tracing Imperial Violence" at the Fotodok gallery in Utrecht, from November 27, 2025, to March 1, 2026. The exhibition was organized with financial support from the City of Utrecht and the Mondriaan Fund. In 2026, the work was presented during the Sputnik Photos collective exhibition "TOGETHER" on the occasion of the collective's 20th anniversary at the Museum of Photography in Krakow. This exhibition was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund.
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- 2024-05-24
Psychologia społeczna. Wydanie drugie zaktualizowane
Nowa wersja podręcznika Psychologia społeczna ukazuje się w 14 lat po jego pierwszej edycji. Później było wiele wydań, bo podręcznik zyskał powszechne uznanie wykładowców i studentów. To wydanie jednak zasadniczo różni się od poprzednich. Współautorem został Tomasz Grzyb. W tomie przybyło wiele nowych fragmentów, niektóre kwestie zaktualizowano bądź opatrzono dodatkowymi komentarzami, odwołując się do świeżej literatury. Przede wszystkim zmienił się świat dookoła nas, pojawiły się nowe zjawiska, jak na przykład światowa pandemia COVID-19 i wraz z tym potrzeba odniesienia się do jej psychologicznych konsekwencji, a o wielu zjawiskach, którymi zajmuje się psychologia społeczna wiemy dziś więcej niż kilkanaście lat temu. Nie pozostało to bez wpływu na sam podręcznik – jego nowa, zmodyfikowana i przeredagowana treść lepiej oddaje charakter zmieniającej się, choć ciągle tak samo fascynującej dziedziny, jaką jest psychologia społeczna. Profesorowie Bogdan Wojciszke i Tomasz Grzyb, psychologowie o światowej renomie, napisali podręcznik do psychologii społecznej, jakiego jeszcze w Polsce nie było. Książka obejmuje wszystkie klasyczne zagadnienia składające się na tę dyscyplinę oraz zagadnienia relatywnie nowe, takie jak kwestie różnic płci, nowych mediów, społeczeństwa sieci, miłości i władzy. Napisana jasnym i barwnym językiem skupia się na prawidłowościach rządzących ludzką psychiką i postępowaniem. Pokazuje, w jak fascynujący sposób psychologia społeczna odpowiada na pytanie, kim jest człowiek i na czym polega jego społeczna natura. Wcześniejsze wydania tej książki stały się fundamentem dydaktyki akademickiej na kierunku psychologia. - 2025-08-11
What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style
‘Puppygirls’ is a name for a particular kinky trans feminine lesbian style, rooted in the long history of trans erotic productions, and currently thriving on social media platforms, such as Twitter (now X), Bluesky, or Discord. In this article, I provide an analysis of the style that is rooted in personal immersion in ‘puppygirl culture’. Using several examples of puppygirl media productions, I argue for the possibility of reading the puppygirl style as a critical practice: one that hints at ways of being trans that do rely on the ciscentric understanding of ‘the human’ as their point of reference. In doing so, I show how puppygirl style resonates with theoretical interventions in the field of trans studies offered by scholars such as Susan Stryker and Talia Mae Bettcher. - 2023
Wypalenie rodzicielskie: wprowadzenie do teorii i badań
The aim of the article is to present the concept of parental burnout, which has recently become a topic of interest for researchers. In the article, we review the theoretical concept of parental burnout, present the questionnaires to measure it as well as the research results indicating risk factors and consequences of parental burnout, and the first studies on the effectiveness of psychological interventions to reduce it. This article presents information in a concise, simple and understandable way, providing readers with a quick overview of the theory of parental burnout and the latest research on this phenomenon. - 2024-06
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale: Validation of the Polish Version
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS) was created to integrate different aspects of perfectionism, including the newly conceptualized concept of narcissistic perfectionism. The goal of our two studies (N = 1341) was to examine the psychometric properties of the Polish adaptation of the BTPS, supporting the validity and portability of the measure. The studies were conducted among people who had a child, thus contributing to a better understanding of parental perfectionism, one of the key factors influencing parental well-being and a child’s functioning. Our analyses included investigating the structure of the scale, intercorrelations between subscales, reliability, and convergent validity by correlating BTPS scores with other measures of perfectionism and correlates of psychopathology (borderline symptoms) and parental difficulties (parental stress and parental burnout). Results supported the structure of the original BTPS. As predicted, confirmatory factor analysis indicated that items comprising the Polish adaptation of the questionnaire, like the original version, measure three related but specific aspects of perfectionism: rigid perfectionism, self-critical perfectionism, and narcissistic perfectionism. The three dimensions were also found to be specifically related to the difficulties experienced by parents. Further, the Polish version of the BTPS was found to have good internal reliability and validity. Our results from two independent Polish samples suggest that the Polish version of the BTPS is a psychometrically robust measure of perfectionism for assessing the three perfectionism factors.
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