Research & Expertise

Together with a team from England, Portugal and Switzerland the head of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research Peter Schmidt has won a competition for a revised module on immigration “Attitudes towards immigration and their antecedents” for the European Social Survey.

The seminar of ILSCR took place on 21^st June. The theme was “Male reproductive success in small-scale societies (Hadza and Datoga of Tanzania)”, the lecturer was
Marina Butovskaya, world-wide renowned Russian anthropologist, doctor of history sciences, head of the Center for evolutionary anthropology of the Institute of ethnology and anthropology RAS.

The second summer school of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research “Designing research and writing papers on culture and behavior: an intensive training seminar” took place in Moscow oblast on 15-20 June.

The regular scientific seminar of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research took place on 31st May. The lecturer was Pavel Sorokin, researcher at the Center for Study of Social Organization of a Firm in Higher School of Economics.

The regular meeting of the scientific seminar of the International Laboratory for socio-cultural research took place on 29^th May. The lecturer was prof. Alexander Sukharev, PhD, senior researcher at the Institute of Psychology RAS, Director of the Center for ethno-functional research, Dean of the Psychology Department in State Academy of Slavic Culture. 

The new special issue on the Theory of Human Values edited by Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt and Shalom Schwartz is now available in the online journal “Survey Research methods” for free.

The spring cycle of professional development courses organized by the International Laboratory for socio-cultural research completed. A course of lectures "Intercultural and Acculturation Psychology" read by John Berry, the author of the theory of acculturation, professor emeritus at Queen's University, Canada, continued from April 16 to 20. A series of seminars "The Psychology of Economics” led by researchers of the department of social psychology of Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Marcel Zeelenberg and Seger Breugelmans, continued from April 23 to 26.

The seminar on “Acculturation and Adaptation of Immigrant Youth” was held on 19 April in the ILSCR. The lecturer was John Berry, professor emeritus in Queen’s University of Kingston, Canada.

XIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development of National Research University Higher School of Economics took place on 3-5 April in Moscow. Researchers of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research took an active part in the section "Culture and Society”.

On March 29^th at the Department of Psychology was held a regular scientific seminar of ILSCR.  Peter Schmidt, the head of the lab, professor of University of Giessen and Higher School of Economics made a report on “An integrated theory of creativity and innovation”.