علم النفس الاجتماعي
Born in Lille, Rutkowski received her MA in Social psychology at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 1993, and her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Social Psychology in 1999 at the Tilburg University with a thesis entitled "The social co-construction of the referential world : a redefinition of human morality" under supervision of John Rijsman.