Márta Fülöp

Márta Fülöp (Budapest, August 5, 1956) psychologist, social psychologist, clinical psychologist, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist, scientific advisor of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences and head of the Social and Cultural Psychology Research Group.. She is Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, supervisor at the Doctoral School of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University
== Main research area ==
Psychology of competition and within that: Constructive and destructive competition Shkliaieva, O & Fülöp, M. (2019). Fair and unfair competition in the workplace: perceived by Chinese business students, In: Lippai, E. (Ed.) Összetart a sokszínűség : Abstract book of the 28th Congress of the Hungarian Psychological Association. Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Psychological Association, pp. 186-187.,;The psychology of cooperative competition Schneider, B., Benenson, J., FÜLÖP, M., Berkics, M., Sándor, M. (2011). Cooperation and Competition. In: P.K. Smith, C.H. Hart (Ed.s): The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. pp. 472-490 , Ross, A., FÜLÖP, M., Pergar Kuscer, M. (2006) (eds.) Teachers’ and Pupils Constructions of Competition and Cooperation: A three-country study of Slovenia, Hungary and England. Ljubljana:University of Ljubljana Press. pp.1-266.; Cultural differences in competition FÜLÖP, M. (2004). Competition as a culturally constructed concept. In: C. Baillie; E. Dunn, Y. Zheng (eds.) Travelling facts. The Social Construction, Distribution, and Accumulation of Knowledge. pp. pp. 124-148. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag. , Schneider, B.H, Soteras de Toro, M. P., Woodburn, S., FÜLÖP, M., Cervino, C., Bernstein, S., Sandor, M., (2006). Cross-cultural differences in competition among children and adolescents. In: Chen, X., French. D., Schneider, B. (eds.) Peer Relationships in Cultural Context. Cambridge University Press. pp. 310-339; Attitudes towards Competition; The psychology of winning and losing; The relationship between competition and psychological and somatic health; Perceptions of economic competition FÜLÖP, M. Berkics, M. (2002). Economic education and attitudes towards enterprise, business and competition among adolescents in Hungary. In: Hutchings, M., Fülöp, M., Van Den Dries, A. (ed) Young People's understanding of economic issues in Europe. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, pp. 129-153. ; Competition in business life; Fair and unfair competition; Competition in early childhood; Competition in old age; Implicit theories of competition; Prototypes of competitive and non-competitive people; Competitive behaviour of gifted children; Competition in psychoanalysis; Citizenship FÜLÖP, M, Ross A (eds.) (2005). Growing up in Europe today: Developing identities among adolescents. Stoke-on-Trent. Trentham Books and Sterling, USA.; Youth activism.
== Career and work ==
Dr. Fülöp received her MA in psychology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1980. She started her career as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1981. In 1992 she was promoted research associate, in 1997 to senior research fellow. Since 1997 she has been the head of the group of Cultural Comparative Psychology and since 2015 of the group of Social and Cultural Psychology. Between 2010-2013 she was the Scientific Director of the Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2015 she has been a scientific advisor of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology in Budapest.
She defended her doctoral dissertation on Scientific and Implicit Theories of Competition at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995. In addition to her research work, she was an associate professor at the University of Szeged, where she founded the Social and Organisational Psychology Group. From 2003 to 2009 she was an associate professor and from 2009 to 2020 a full professor at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education of Eötvös Loránd University. Since 2015 she has been a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The title of her academic doctoral dissertation is: The Psychology of Competition, Winning and Losing and Cultural Differences. Since 2020, in addition to her scientific advisor and research group leader position, she has been a professor of social and cultural psychology at the Institute of Psychology of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church.
== Professional commitments ==
=== Leadership of international committees/organisations ===
Secretary General of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) 2016-2024, Children's Identity and Citizenship European Association (CICea), scientific and publication officer (2006-2020) President-elect (2020-2022).
=== Other professional membership ===
* Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association
* International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
* International Association of Applied Psychology
* Association for Psychological Science
=== Journal editing ===
*	Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, (Hungarian Journal of Psychology); editor-in-chief since 2015 
*	Citizenship, Teaching&Learning, associate-editor since 2005 
=== Journal editorial board member ===
*	European Psychologist, since 2004
*	International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice & Consultation, since 2011
*	Journal of Social Science Education, since 2013
*	Current Issues in Personality Psychology, since 2020
*	Psychological Studies , since 2020
Category:1956 births
Category:Hungarian psychologists 
Category:People from Budapest
Category:Social psychologists