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Katalin Eva Balint is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2018. She defended her PhD dissertation in 2012 at Pécs University, Hungary, in the field of Psychology. Balint conducted postdoctoral research at Utrecht University on a project focused on the determinants of narrative absorption in literature and film from 2012 to 2014. Subsequently, she taught and researched at the University of Augsburg in Germany in the Department of Media, Knowledge, and Communication from 2014 to 2016. She then joined Tilburg University in 2017, where she was involved in the New Media Design track at the Department of Communication and Cognition until 2018. Balint has received several grants, including a three-year individual research grant from the German Science Foundation in 2017 to investigate the role of audio-visual formal features in eliciting empathy and prosocial behavior among film viewers. More recently, she was awarded the prestigious Aspasia grant from NWO for her project on narrative complexity and real-life understanding. Balint's research interests are centered around media psychology with a special focus on empathy, narrative engagement, and the formal features of cinema.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Teaching and researching in the Department of Communication Science.
Utrecht University • Utrecht, Netherlands
Conducted research on narrative absorption in literature and film.
University of Augsburg • Augsburg, Germany
Taught and researched in the Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication.
Tilburg University • Tilburg, Netherlands
Joined the New Media Design track at the Department of Communication and Cognition.
Administered under the Department of Clinical Psychology for Master's in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology.