Michał Kedra

Michał Kedra is a researcher at the Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). His work focuses on personality psychology, sports psychology, and prosocial behavior, with a particular emphasis on positive orientation and affect in athletic performance.

• Research Domains: Personality traits, motivational psychology, prosocial behavior, psychometrics, and health psychology.
• Grants: Principal Investigator for a KUL-funded project on positive orientation in marathon performance (2021–2022), and a doctoral school grant on recreational sports engagement (2022–2024). Collaborator on international projects funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, including studies on cyberbullying and prosocial interventions.
• Publications: His research examines how positive affect and prosocial goals enhance athletic performance and wellbeing, with recent works appearing in Current Issues in Personality Psychology, Nutrients, and Frontiers in Psychology.
• Conferences: Presented findings at the 4th Polish Symposium of Sport Psychology, the 17th European Congress of Psychology, and international events in Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, and Ljubljana.
• Labs: Collaborates with the SPP Lab and OSD Lab at KUL, contributing to projects like MULTEN and ProSac.