School of Psychology

'I Try to Say Surprising Things, to Keep Students on Their Toes'

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.

July 22, 2014

Automatic ultrarapid activation and inhibition of cortical motor systems in spoken word comprehension – New publication in PNAS

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

April 25, 2014

Innovative Applied Social Psychology Master’s Programme Will Prepare Graduates to Compete on the Russian, Dutch, and Global Labour Markets

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.

March 05, 2014

A Global Look at Time: A 24-Country Study of the Equivalence of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory – New publication in SAGE Open

New article "A Global Look at Time: A 24-Country Study of the Equivalence of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory" by Evgeny Osin published in SAGE Open. Abstract

February 26, 2014

Driving forces in free visual search: An ethology – New publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

New article "Driving forces in free visual search: An ethology" by W. Joseph MacInnes published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Abstract

January 21, 2014

Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups – New publication in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

New article "Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups" by Zarina Lepshokova published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Abstract

January 13, 2014

Parallel averaging of size is possible but range-limited: A reply to Marchant, Simons, and De Fockert – New publication in Acta Psychologica

New experimental article "Parallel averaging of size is possible but range-limited: A reply to Marchant, Simons, and De Fockert" by Igor Utochkin and Natalia Tiurina published in Acta Psychologica. Abstract

December 30, 2013

The Latest on Human Infants

Professor Emmanuel Dupoux, Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) will visit the HSE Faculty of Psychology for a lecture entitled ‘Quantitative modeling of early language acquisition’ on November, 15, 2013 (video). He shared a few ideas with the HSE news service and spoke about his research interests.

November 15, 2013

"Quantitative modeling of early language acquisition"

November 15, 2013

"Systems Thinking and Facilitated Decision Making"

October 30, 2013