Editorial Board

Former Editors-in-Chief of the Current Applied Psychology  (Alkalmazott Pszichológia):

2022-2024: Tímea Magyaródi, PhD

2020-2022: Adrienn Ujhelyi, PhD

1998-2020: Mónika Szabó † ,PhD, Founding Editor-in-Chief

Current Editor-in-Chief:

Natália Kocsel is an assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Addictions. She is a member of the Personality, Health, and Emotion Regulation Research Group and a counseling psychologist. She earned her PhD in 2020 from ELTE’s Doctoral School of Psychology, specializing in the Personality and Health Psychology program. Her research primarily focuses on how individual differences in emotion regulation shape subjective well-being and somatic complaints during adolescence and adulthood. Her work aims to understand the relationship between perseverative cognitions (rumination and worry), emotional information processing, resting heart rate variability, and various indicators of mental and somatic health under controlled laboratory conditions and in everyday life. Since September 2024, she has served as the editor-in-chief of the Current Applied Psychology.

Editors/Section Editors:

Katalin Balázs is a psychologist, an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, Non-independent Department of Social and Work Psychology.

Csilla Csukonyi is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Institute of Psychology at the University of Debrecen. In 1999, she graduated from the University of Debrecen with a degree in Psychology and English-Hungarian translation, and in 2003 at the University of Technology and Economics of Budapest with a degree as a work and organisational psychologist expert. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Debrecen in 2009.  She graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2020 on sports psychodiagnostics and counselling. Since she first enrolled at a University (25 years ago), she has been involved in the research area of social interactions, especially in HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) nowadays. She is the head of the Digital Interactions Research group and a member of the international COST WG5 and the interdisciplinary Cognitive Etho-engineering Systems and Robots research group. She is the head of the national EuroPsy Committee and the leader of the section on organisational and work psychology at the MPT. Since January 2024, she has been a section editor (work and organisational psychology) of the Current Applied Psychology.

Karolina Eszter Kovács is a psychologist, translator, and sport-psychodiagnostic counsellor. She obtained her PhD in 2019 in the Doctoral Programme on Educational Sciences at the University of Debrecen (School of Humanities). In her research, she mainly investigates health consciousness as a non-academic achievement of young people along different pedagogical and psychological factors, with a special focus on sport. She is a member of the Hungarian Educational Research Association (HERA) and the Hungarian Psychological Association (MPT) and a senior researcher at the Center for Higher Educational Research and Development (CHERD-H). Since 2019, she has worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Debrecen. Since the academic year 2019/20, she has been a mentor and lecturer in the Talent Development Programme (DETEP) of the University of Debrecen, where she is currently mentoring psychology students. In 2022, she joined the Cambridge University ReachSci Global Programme, where she will be a local mentor in the summer of 2022, supporting undergraduate students interested in research who are underrepresented in the student population (e.g. women in STEM, undergraduate and masters students with disabilities). She has been the editor of the Hungarian Educational Research Journal (HERJ) since 2016 and managing editor since 2019. She was awarded a Universitas Foundation Fellowship in 2021, the National Talent Programme National Young Talent Fellowship in 2016 and the Pro Regione (For the Hungarian Countryside) Fellowship in 2014. In recognition of her volunteering activities, she received the HERA Certificate for volunteering activity in 2019.

Katalin Oláh is an assistant professor at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, ELTE PPK, and a member of the Social Minds Research Group at ELTE. She received her PhD degree in 2018 at the Cognitive Psychology program of the ELTE Doctoral School. Her research mainly focuses on various aspects of social cognition with a special emphasis on development. Her research with preschool children explores questions on social learning, social categorization and theory of mind, and how these functions are interrelated during cognition. Her research with adults focuses on how adult attachment is related to different aspects of theory of mind. In 2022, she has also earned a degree as a counseling psychologist.

József Pántya is an assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, in the Department of Social Psychology. He is a member of the Social Groups and Media Research Lab. He earned his PhD in 2014 from the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Debrecen, specializing in the Psychology doctoral program. His research interest is focused on the social psychological antecedents and consequences of socially responsible attitudes: the social beliefs, preferences, and motives influencing the personal sense of social responsibility, as well as the effects of social responsibility views on prosocial behavioral intentions. These topics are reflected in his research activities ranging from the study of individual preferences for different social policies concerning social (in)equality to the investigation of personal and situational factors influencing the personal level of social responsibility in different contexts. Since January 2021, he has served as an editor of the Current Applied Psychology.

Eszter Szemenyei graduated as a psychologist specilizing in clinical and health psychology from the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2012. She is currently working on her dissertation at ELTE Doctoral School of Psychology, specializing in the PhD program of Personality and Health Psychology. She is a member of the Personality, Health, and Emotion Regulation Research Group at ELTE. Her research interest includes experiential avoidance (psychological inflexibility) and its connection to implicit and explicit anxiety, the multiple connection of heart rate variablilty and emotion regulational problems, the connection of avoidance with externalizing and internalizing problems in adolescents. In the academic year of 2016/2017 she had the opportunity to investigate different ways of assessing implicit self-esteem at Sapienza Universitá di Roma.

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ELTE Eötvös Publisher Ltd.
1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4.

Responsible Publisher:
Anikó Zsolnai, PhD, DSc, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology, ELTE

ISSN 1419-872X (Print)
ISSN 3004-0906 (Online)