Marta Kowal
martakowal.bsky.social
Marta Kowal
@martakowal.bsky.social
PhD, Postdoc at the University of Wrocław (Poland)
1/2 In the late 1600s, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked into a microscope and saw “small animals” living in his saliva. A few centuries later, we meta-analyzed what those tiny organisms - our microbiome - might mean for our well-being.
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Interested in love and mate preferences? Our dataset includes responses from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. You're welcome to use it for your own research! Paper and dataset linked below. @ with amazing collaborators from the large-scale cross-cultural consortium <3
July 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just got back from #HBES2025 - what an absolute blast! Fantastic conference and even more fantastic people and the society. Loved both the big talks and the between-session chats. Only downside? Wish I could clone myself to be in several places at once! :)
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
May 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
1/2 I’d be lying if I said I’m a serious, always-composed academic and that hearing about grant funding was no big deal... Well, it was! I'm so thrilled to share that I received SONATA from @NCN_PL!
Topic: Love & well-being
Amount: ~275,000 EUR
May 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Such a tremendous loss... I never had the pleasure of meeting Ellen Berscheid, but her work has had a lasting impact on me. Her legacy shall live on.
May 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The day has finally come... or rather, the 1,227th day. Today, I completed the Spanish course on @duolingoverde.bsky.social
I never thought it would be such a long, fun (and sometimes frustrating:) journey. Entonces, que debo hacer ahora con mi tiempo libre?!
April 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Does a history of infectious diseases shape how we perceive our health? Our preliminary study finds mixed evidence across countries. Some analyses suggest a small positive effect, but overall, no clear link [link to the paper below] @ Amazing Large-Scale Cross-Cultural Team!
March 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We found consistent evidence across two studies (Study 1 N = 61,067 individuals from 81 countries; Study 2 N = 6,620 individuals from 50 countries) that higher individualism predicts lower intensity of experienced love. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
1/2 Happy Valentine's Day! Want to study romantic love? Our team validated the TLS-15 - a short, reliable love scale - in 37 languages! You can freely use it in your research. Link to the paper below:
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
1/4 Are you considering SSRIs for mental health reasons but you are worried about their impact on your romantic life? For years, researchers speculated that SSRIs might negatively impact romantic love. But, to date, nobody actually tested this! Well, we did. Here's what we found.
February 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM