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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Head of HSE School of Psychology Vasily Klucharev showed what occurs in the human brain when a person’s opinion conflicts with the majority’s opinion. What happens in the brains of nonconformists? What causes the «herd mentality»?

On October 28, 2014 Jeremy M. Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, USA) spoke on ‘Hybrid Search: How Long-term Memories Interact with Visual Search’

On October 27, 2014 Jeremy M. Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, USA) spoke on ‘Dancing Chickens and Gorillas in the Lung: If I Can See So Much, Why Do I Miss So Much?’

Professor Gerrod Parrott from Georgetown University has come to the HSE for a brief visit to deliver a series of lectures to master’s students at the Faculty of Psychology. On October 17 he also gave a public lecture on ‘Effects of American and Russian Cultures on Emotions’. The aim of the presentation was to introduce several research topics, describe preliminary findings and explore possibilities of collaboration with Russian researchers in this field.

Marco Colosio, M.Sc., the first foreigner PhD student in the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, came to Moscow three weeks ago. In this brief interview Marco tells about his scientific interests, background and first impression about Moscow and CDM-Centre.

New article "Perceptual merging contributes to cueing effects" by , W. Joseph MacInnes et al. published in Journal of Vision. Abstract

Anna Shpektor (research assistant in the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making and student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University) this summer participated in the Yale Summer Session. She tells about her experience.

Kennon M. Sheldon is Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri (USA), a leading expert in psychology of motivation and goals and one of the 20 most quoted psychologists in the USA. He is Academic Supervisor of the HSE’s new Laboratory of the Positive Psychology of Motivation and Personality. In an interview for the HSE English Language news service, News Editor Anna Chernyakhovskaya asked Professor Sheldon how his cooperation with the HSE began.

New article "Automatic ultrarapid activation and inhibition of cortical motor systems in spoken word comprehension" by Yury Shtyrov et al. published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Abstract

A new master’s programme in Applied Social Psychology is set to launch at the HSE in 2014. Nadezhda Lebedeva, Head of the programme, and Marcel Zeelenberg, Professor of Economic Psychology, and Academic Director of Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, took turns telling us about its specifics.