Research & Expertise – News

New research by Evgeny Osin and his collaborators shows that our personal perspective on time can determine how we cooperate.

Melanie Sheldon, an instructor at the University of Missouri – Columbia, recently offered a lecture course at the HSE Winter School 2015 on the psychology of motivation, which was organized by the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation, headed by Dmitry Leontiev. She also offered an open lecture on 'Sex and Evolutionary Psychology' at HSE. Melanie recently spoke with the HSE news service about her experience taking part in the HSE Winter School.

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.