Activity: Dr Petra Hypšová specialises in work and organisational psychology. Her research focuses on the validity of non-invasive methods for measuring behavioural and physiological changes in the detection of intentional information distortion as well as on emotions and cognitive load in occupational and social contexts. She is currently a research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc, where she teaches courses in human resource management and organisational psychology and supervises and assesses dissertations. She has also taught courses in industrial psychology and managerial psychology. From 2022 to 2024, she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University as part of the GAČR project EMOACT – Emotions in Social Interaction and completed a research internship at the University of Portsmouth (UK) in 2022. Since 2024, she has been involved as a researcher in the OP JAK project New Technologies for Digital Healthcare. As Principal Investigator, she led IGA projects at the Faculty of Arts dealing with information bias in job interviews and its detection through contactless technologies (2022–2024). She has also worked on GAČR projects such as CPACT – Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text (2016–2022). She also has experience in personnel selection psychodiagnostic, coaching and lecturing on industrial psychology topics including time management, work-life balance, effective communication and negotiation. She is a member of the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP) and the Deception Research Society. Her academic contributions have been honoured with the Best Presentation Award at ICPLDM 2023 in Paris and the Dean’s Award of the University of South Bohemia (2019).

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