Associate Professor at the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Co-Leader of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab, Jagiellonian University.
Krzysztof Cipora obtained his MSc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2016) in psychology at Jagiellonian Unviersity in Kraków. Afterwards, he spent four years as a Post-Doc researcher at the Department of Psychology of the University of Tuebingen (Germany), and five years as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University (United Kingdom). Afterward, he came back to the Jagiellonian University in October 2025.
Krzyszfof's research interests include elementary number processing (especially Spatial-Numerical Associations), links between elementary number processing and mathematical skills, math anxiety (its measurement and links to mathematics achievement in different groups), linguistic and cultural influences on number processing as well as research methods, open science, and reproducibility.
Currently, Krzysztof is involved in two grants conducted at the MCLL: "Mind, number, space: Spatial-numerical cognition in professional mathematicians" (Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, 2024-2027), and "ErasMAs+ Enriching HEI training to help future primary school teachers tackle math anxiety in themselves and their pupils" (European Comission, Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education, 2025–2028).
Krzysztof authored several papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Royal Society Open Science, Psychological Research, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Scientific Reports, Acta Psychologica, Journal of Numerical Cognition, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Behavior Research Methods, Mind, Brain, and Education. He also co-edited special issues of Journal of Numerical Cognition, Psychological Research, and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Contact: krzysztof.cipora@uj.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0003-0077-9336
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Lunardon, M., Artemenko, C., Rossi, S., Nuerk, H., & Cipora, K. (2025). More than just anxiety: Math attitudes as key driver of university choice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, nyas.70060. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70060
Lunardon, M., Artemenko, C., Rossi, S., Nuerk, H.-C., & Cipora, K. (accepted). More Than Just Anxiety: Math Attitudes as Key Driver of University Choice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u2ptg_v1
Moorkens, J., Vonck, J., Cipora, K., van Dijck, J.-P., & Fias, W. (2025). The mental number line and the working memory line: Their relationship investigated throughout the school years. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 21(2), 176-188. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0455-3
Roth, L., Huber, J., Kronenthaler, S., van Dijck, J., Cipora, K., Butz, M. V., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2025). Looks like SNARC spirit: Coexistence of short- and long-term associations between letters and space. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251324437
Roth, L., Caffier, J. P., Reips, U.-D., Cipora, K., Braun, L., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2025). True colors SNARC: Semantic number processing is highly automatic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001431
Roth, L., Caffier, J., Reips, U.-D., Nuerk, H.-C., & Cipora, K. (2025). One and only SNARC? Spatial-Numerical Associations are not fully flexible and depend on both relative and absolute magnitude. Royal Society Open Science, 12: 241585. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241585
Bulut, M., Roth, L., Bahreini, N., Cipora, K., Reips, U.-D., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2025). One direction? Cultural aspects of the mental number line beyond reading/writing direction. Psychological Research 89, 37 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02038-4
Loenneker, H.D., Cipora, K., Artemenko, C., Soltanlou, M., Bellon, E., De Smedt, B., … Huber, J. (2024). Math4Speed - a freely available measure of arithmetic fluency. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000347
Cipora, K., Lunardon, M., Masson, N., Georges, C., Nuerk, H.-C., & Artemenko, C. (2024). The AMATUS Dataset: Arithmetic Performance, Mathematics Anxiety and Attitudes in Primary School Teachers and University Students. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12: 10, pp. 1–17. https://doi.org/ 10.5334/jopd.115
Roth, L., Jordan, V., Schwarz, S., Willmes, K., Nuerk, H.-C., van Dijck, J.-P., & Cipora, K. (2024). Don’t SNARC me now! Intraindividual variability of cognitive phenomena – insights from the Ironman paradigm. Cognition 248, 105781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105781
Hohol, M., Szymanek, P., & Cipora, K. (2024). Analog magnitude representation of angles and its relation to geometric expertise. Scientific Reports 14, 8997. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59521-6
Krajcsi, A., Chesney, D., Cipora, K., Coolen, I. E. J. I., Gilmore, C., Inglis, M., … Reynvoet, B. (2024). Measuring the acuity of the approximate number system in young children. Developmental Review 72, 101131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2024.101131
Rossi, S., Xenidou-Dervou, I., & Cipora, K. (2023). Emotions and mathematics: Anxiety profiles and their influence on arithmetic performance in university students. Royal Society Open Science 10:230861. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230861