doc. PhDr. Michal Hajdúk, PhD.

Teaching specialization

clinical psychology, psychopathology, neuropsychology, neuroscience

Teaching activities

Bachelor's level:

Clinical psychology

Master's level:

Psychopathology
Clinical Neuropsychology
Psychological Diagnostics in Practice
Introduction to social, affective, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience I and II.
Experimental Psychopathology

Doctoral level:

Selected Chapters from Clinical Psychology I, II, III.
Psychological Research Methods
Statistics in Applied Psychological Research

Research focus

Mental disorders, schizophrenia, social isolation and loneliness, social cognition, neuroscience

Currently ongoing grants

VEGA 1/0493/23, Sociálne stiahnutie a fenotpy psychózy - psychologické mechanizmy a neurobiologické koreláty na kontinuu norma patológia, Prinicipal Investigatior

VAIA excelentná veda 09I03-03-V03-00035, Sociálne stiahnutie v bežnej a klinickej populácii: porozumenie komplexným vzťahom medzi sociálnymi, psychologickými a neurobiologickými procesmi, Prinicipal Investigatior

Horizon 945263, The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry, Co-investigator

Most significant publications

Hajdúk, M., Sasson, N. J., Park, S., & Pinkham, A. E. (2024). Paranoia: From Passive Social-Threat Perception to Misattunement in Social Interaction. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(6), 1262-1275. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026231218639

Hajdúk, M., Abplanalp, S. J., Jimenez, A. M., Fisher, M., Haut, K. M., Hooker, C. I., Lee, H., Ventura, J., Nahum, M., & Green, M. F. (2024). Linking social motivation, general motivation, and social cognition to interpersonal functioning in schizophrenia: insights from exploratory graph analysis. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 274(6), 1385–1393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-023-01733-4

Hajdúk, M., Straková, A., Januška, J., Ivančík, V., Dančík, D., Čavojská, N., Valkučáková, V., Heretik, A., Pečeňák, J., Abplanalp, S. J., & Green, M. F. (2023). Connections between and within extended psychosis and autistic phenotypes and social relationships in the general population. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 157, 36–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.11.022

Hajdúk, M., Pinkham, A. E., Penn, D. L., Harvey, P. D., & Sasson, N. J. (2022). Heterogeneity of social cognitive performance in autism and schizophrenia. Autism Research, 15(8), 1522–1534. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2730

Hajdúk, M., Dančík, D., Januška, J., Svetský, V., Straková, A., Turček, M., Vašečková, B., Forgáčová, Ľ., Heretik, A., & Pečeňák, J. (2020). Psychotic experiences in student population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schizophrenia research, 222, 520–521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.05.023

Other tasks, responsibilities, experiences

Member of the team of guarantors for Bc, Mgr, PhD study programme
Head of the Centre for Research on Psychiatric Disorders, UK
Co - chair - International Consortium for Paranoia Research
Member of the Council for Social Sciences APVV - chair of the international panel
Member of The Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Mental Health - vice-chair of the Research Committee
Member of the Scientific Council of the FSVaZ UKF Nitra
Associate editor in the journal Československá psychologie