Team role: design and coordination of epidemiological studies, psychological testing of participants, standardization of foreign questionnaires, adaptation of CBT and its effects evaluation using fMRI, statistical analyses, writing publications

Publications with IF:

1. Polák J., Rádlová S., Janovcová M., Flegr J., Landová E., Frynta D. (2018): Scary and nasty beasts: a factor analysis and the role of fear and disgust in perception of common phobic animals. Submitted to Behaviour Research and Therapy.

2. Polák J., Sedláčková K., Landová E., Frynta D. (2018): Faster detection of snake and spider phobia: revisited. Under review in Current Psychology.

3. Polák J., Landová E., Frynta D. (2018): Undisguised disgust: a psychometric evaluation of a disgust propensity measure. Current Psychology, First Online. IF = 1.28 [Full-text]

4. Vlček P., Polák J., Brunovský M., Horáček J. (2018): Role of glutamatergic system in obsessive-compulsive disorder with possible therapeutic implications. Pharmacopsychiatry, First Online. IF = 2.06 [Download PDF]

5. Landová E., Bakhshaliyeva N., Janovcová M., Peléšková Š., Suleymanova M., Polák J., Guliev A., Frynta D. (2018). Evaluation of snake beauty and fear: a comparison of two countries with different risk levels of snake bite. Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 333. IF = 2.32 [Download PDF]

6. Polák J., Sedláčková K., Nácar D., Landová E., Frynta D. (2016): Fear the serpent: a psychometric study of snake phobia. Psychiatry Research, 242: 163-168. IF = 2.47 [Download PDF].

7. Landová E., Musilová V., Polák J., Sedláčková K., Frynta D. (2016): Antipredatory reaction of the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) to snake predators. Current Zoology, 62: 439-450. IF = 1.76 [Download PDF]

8. Polák J., Frynta D. (2015): Offspring sex ratio in domestic goats: Trivers-Willard out of natural selection. Czech Journal of Animal Science, 60: 208-215. IF2015 = 1.18 [Download PDF]

9. Polák J., Frynta D. (2010): Patterns of sexual size dimorphism in cattle breeds support Rensch's rule. Evolutionary Ecology, 24: 1255-1266. IF2010 = 2.40 [Download PDF]

10. Polák J., Frynta D. (2009): Sexual size dimorphism in domestic goats, sheep, and their wild relatives. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 98: 872-883. IF2009 = 2.04 [Download PDF]

Publications without IF:

1. Polák J. (2018): Can we recognize cheaters? Psychologie Dnes, 24: 42-43.

2. Polák J. (2007): Mother and child in conflict. Psychologie Dnes, 13: 30-33.

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Evoluční psychologie, psychodiagnostika, projektivní testování, behaviorální ekologie, kopytníci.

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