Marta Zakrzewska’s award symposium

On 21 November 2025, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, we held a symposium celebrating our former PhD student Mart Zakrzewska.

The event, titled “The Psychology of Disease,” explored how illness shapes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and social interactions.

The programme featured talks on:

• Why some individuals react strongly to everyday sensory stimulation (Linus Andersson)

• The different faces of feeling sick (Julie Lasselin)

• Sex differences in pathogen disgust from an evolutionary perspective (Marco Tullio Liuzza)

• How olfaction relates to social attitudes and prejudice (Marta Zakrzewska)

The symposium concluded with the award ceremony of the 2024 Young Researcher in Psychology Prize.