Dalibor Kučera is an educator and researcher in the fields of general, social, and educational psychology. His longstanding research interests include methods based on communication analysis and their applications in psychology.
He earned his Ph.D. in General Psychology and his PhDr. in Psychology from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University. He received his associate professorship in Psychology from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University.
A key focus of his work since 2012 has been the psychology of language use. From 2016 to 2018, he led a three-year research project, CPACT, “Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text,” funded by the Czech Science Foundation (16-19087S). In 2020, he was awarded the Fulbright-Masaryk Senior Fellowship by the J. W. Fulbright Commission for his project “Personality Processes and Oral Communication” (2020-28-11) at the University of Arizona (Tucson). This project initiated a long-term collaboration with the institution and led to the formulation of significant challenges in the field, as outlined in the study “Beyond English: Considering Language and Culture in Psychological Text Analysis.”
Beyond communication research, he has long been engaged in the study of inter- and intrapersonal perception, focusing particularly on self-assessment and the evaluation of others, and their socio-psychological and technological contexts. In 2024, he received support from the ELISE Mobility Program for Experienced Researchers (Horizon 2020, 951847) for research in “Human-centric Machine Learning and Interaction.” In the field of educational-psychological research, he was awarded a Norway Grants scholarship (NF-CZ07-INP-5-4342015) in 2016 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim). Since 2022, he has been focusing on the use of virtual reality technologies in psychological research within the VR TEAM project.
Since 2021, he has been the Head of the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, where he has been employed since 2013. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Education at JU and served on the Academic Senate of JU from 2022 to 2023. In 2020, he began collaborating with the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. Since 2015, he has been a member of the executive and technical editorial board of the journal Pedagogika, published by the Faculty of Education at Charles University, and since 2016, a member of the Czech Educational Research Association. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, where he has served on the Council from 2018–2022 and 2022–2026. In the period of 2023–2024, he also serves as the elected chairman of the Association of Psychology Departments in the Czech Republic.
Dalibor Kučera is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including the books “Personality Markers in Text,” focusing on the application of quantitative psycho-linguistic text analysis in personality description, “Modern Psychology: Main Fields and Topics of Contemporary Psychological Science,” and the collective monograph “CPACT Research: Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text.”