prof. dr hab. Trempała Janusz JózefEnglish
Janusz Trempała got his MA (1977), PhD (1983) and Habilitation (1993) degrees at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). In 2001 the President of the Republic of Poland conferred him a title of Professor of Humanistic Sciences. He has taught, lectured, and conducted seminars on general and developmental psychology at many universities in Poland, including the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz where he was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Psychology (1996-2003), the Dean for Research and International Affairs of Pedagogical and Psychological Faculty (2005-2006), the Rector for Organization and Development (2006-2008), and where he has been the Head of the Department of Human Development Psychology (since 1994) and the Director of the Institute of Psychology (since 2009).
He is involved in the study on human development in the life-span, especially cognitive and moral development, measure of developmental changes and developmental psychology applications.
The member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Psychology (since 2011-), where he is the member of the Presidium (2015-); the expert of National Center of Science; the member of the Polskie Towarzystwo Psychologiczne [Polish Psychological Association] where he was the vice-President of the Developmental Psychology Section (1995-1998). He was also a member of the International Society of the Study on Behavioral Development (ISSBD) and the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA). He is a founder and editor of journal entitled Polskie Forum Psychologiczne [Polish Psychological Forum] and a member of several Editorial Boards, including journals: Przegląd Psychologiczny [Psychological Review], Roczniki Psychologiczne [Annuals of Psychology], Psychologia Rozwojowa [Developmental Psychology], and from the Web of Sciences: the New Educational Review, and Journal of Moral Education. He was the founder and Deputy Director (2004-2010) of the Kurt Lewin Center for Psychological Research (at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz), which members are many distinguished 'Lewinians' from Europe, USA and Israel.
Janusz Trempała has written about 110 articles and chapters in books on human development and applications of developmental psychology to education and social policy. He is an author of three monographs: Rozumowanie w okresie wczesnej dorosłości [Reasoning in Early Adulthood] (1989), Rozumowanie moralne i odporność dzieci na pokusę oszustwa [Moral Reasoning and Children's Resistance to Temptation] (1992), and Modele rozwoju psychicznego. Czas i zmiana [Models of Human Development. Time and Change] (2000). He is an editor of seven books, including Edukacja i rozwój dzieci w młodszym wieku szkolnym [Education and Development in Late Childhood] (1989), Rozwijający się człowiek w zmieniającym się świecie [Developing Individual in a Changing World] (1995), and in the frame of international cooperation a coeditor of Adolescents' Future-Orientation: Theory and Research (2004, with L.-E. Malmberg) and Lewinian Psychology (2006, with A. Pepitone & B. Raven). Besides, he is a co-author and editor or coeditor of four scientific manuals, including Psychologia, tom 1 [Psychology, vol. 1] (2000) and Psychologia rozwoju człowieka [Psychology of Human Development] (2011).
He was a coordinator of a national research project entitled "Cognitive and moral development of children and youth in Poland" (CPBP 08.17.III.8). He cooperated with Lars-Erik Malmberg (Ǻbo University in Vaasa, Finland, and now Oxford University, GB) in cross-cultural study on future-orientations of European youth, and with Brigitte Trippmacher (Bamberg University, Germany) in the study on effects of change in the socio-cultural milieu in the development of maladjusted adolescents. Last time he participated in the research project entitle Identification of patients at high risk of psychological distress after BRCA1 genetic testing (KBN 2 P05D 129 29). He also cooperates with many 'Lewinians' in the frame of Kurt Lewin Center for Psychological Research.
