Ivana Hromatko started working as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology in 2001. She worked on projects Stress and social reintegration, Biopsychosocial determinants of experience and behaviour in health and disease, and Testing the evolutionary model of adaptation and health. In 2007. she won the young scientists’ award from the Society of university teachers, scholars and other scientists in Zagreb. After earning her PhD in biological psychology in 2009, she spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the University of South Carolina (as a recipient of the 2010 JFDP scholarship from the U.S. Department of State Bureau). She has participated in numerous workshops and training seminars, most of them in the field of behavioral neuroscience. Ivana is a member of several scientific and professional associations, and has presented her work at numerous domestic and international conferences. She has published 40+ articles and book chapters. Currently, she works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Selected publications
Hromatko, I. & Mikac, U. (2023). A Mid-Cycle Rise in Positive and Drop in Negative Moods among Healthy Young Women: A Pilot Study. Brain Sciences, 13 (1), 13010105, 10 doi:10.3390/brainsci13010105.
Vranić, A., Hromatko, I. & Tonković, M. (2022). “I Did My Own Research”: Overconfidence, (Dis)trust in Science, and Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 931865., 9 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.931865.
Hromatko, I., & Hrgović, J. (2020). The how and the why of the human inability to accept evolutionary explanations. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14(4), 336–341. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000225
Walter, K.V, Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M., et al. (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science, 31, 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620904154
Hromatko, I., Tadinac, M., Jokić-Begić, N., Lauri Korajlija, A., Kotrulja, L (2019). Evolutionary medicine perspective on coping style and health outcomes: an exploratory study. Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 70(4), 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1127/homo/2019/1094
Hromatko, I., Fajfarić, M., Tadinac, M. (2019). What feeds the green-eyed monster: sociodemographic and sociosexual determinants of jealousy. Evolution, Mind and Behaviour, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1556/2050.2019.00009
Conroy-Beam, D., Roney, J.R., Lukaszewsk, A.W., Buss, D.M. et al. (2019). Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation, Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(5), 479-491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003
Hrgović, J., Hromatko, I. (2018). The time and social context in sunk-cost effects. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4(3), 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-017-0134-4
Bibliography
https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/18091?report=1
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivana-Hromatko
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-1929
Ivana Hromatko, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Room: C-310, Tel. 4092-193
E-mail: ivana.hromatko@ffzg.hr
Actively participates in popularizing psychological profession and psychology as a science: she held several public lectures, publishes popular science articles, and participates in events such as the Festival of science and PsihoFest.
She also does professional translations and has participated in the translation of several scholarly books and textbooks.