* 1978

Institute of Psychology, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Veveří 97, 602 00 Brno

Tel.: +420 532290 250
 
E-mail: filip@psu.cas.cz

Research interests

• psychology of personal constructs - methodology and applications in education and clinical field
• philosophy of science

Education, practice

• 2005 - 2009: full-time job at the Centre of Clinical Psychology for Children, Prague - Luziny
• 2006: Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences, MasarykUniversity, Brno
• 2004 – present: part-time job at the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences
• 2002 - 2004: part-time job at the Centre for Research of Personality Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brno
• 1997 – 2003: study of psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno

Research projects supported by grant agencies

• Grant agency of Czech Republic 406/09/P604: Psychological diagnostics from the point of view of the personal construct theory (2009-2011, postdoctoral project)
• Grant agency of Czech Republic 406/06/1577: Text analysis as a research and diagnostic tool (2006-2008, member of the research team)
• Cognitive Systems: Experiments, Modelling and Testing in Vision, Judgement and Knowledge (workshop 2.- 3. 11. 2005, Graz, founded by Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office)

Membership in associations and organizations

The George Kelly Society

Personal Construct Theory & Practice - journal editorial board

Selected publications

• Filip, M., Lukavská, K., & Poláčková Šolcová, I. (2019). Dialogical and integrated self in old adulthood: Examining two adaptive ways of growing old. International Journal of Aging and Human Development.
• Filip, M., & Kovářová, M. (2019). Will bootstrap clustering resuscitate repertory grid assessment of cognitive complexity? Convergence with integrative and dialogical complexity suggests it could. Journal of Constructivist Psychology.
• Filip, M., & Poláčková Šolcová, I. (2018). What accounts for successful aging? – A dialogical self view. In. H. Georgi, & R. Šlamberová (Eds.): Stárnutí 2018. Sborník příspěvků 4. gerontologické mezioborové konference. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 3. lékařská fakulta.
• Filip, M., & Kovářová, M. (2017). The self between cacophony and monologue: A conceptualization and empirical examination of dialogical complexity. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. 30, 270-294.
• Strobachová, B., & Filip, M. (2016). School is our common world: A constructivist-phenomenological study of the construing of Roma pupils and their teacher.In D. Winter, N. Reed (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, pp. 383-396. Chichseter: Wiley.
• Kovářová, M., & Filip, M. (2015). Integrating the differentiated: A review of the personal construct approach to cognitive complexity. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28, 342-366.
• Filip, M. (2014). Psychological meaning from the point of view of the theory of personal constructs. In S. Kreitler, T. Urbánek (Eds.), Conceptions of meaning (pp. 195-209). New York: Nova Publishers.
• Filip, M., Kovářová, M., & Urbánek, T. (2012). Relationships between Bannister's intensity and consistency in verbal and non-verbal grids. Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 9, 28-40.
• Filip, M., Urbánek, T., & Lukavský, J. (2010). Semantic Selection Test as a tool for constructivist diagnostics. In D. Bourne, M. Fromm (Eds.), Construing PCP: New contexts and perspectives (s. 233-246). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH.
• Filip, M. (2010). A manual for the Revised Semantic Selection Test and Software BARBORKA.
• Lukavský, J., Filip, M., & Urbánek, T. (2010). BARBORKA – Software for the Revised Semantic Selection Test.