On 24 November John Berry (Chief Researcher Fellow of our laboratory, Professor of Queens University, Canada) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Patterns and determinants of immigrants' sense of belonging to Canada and their source country, and relationships with their well-being".
Reading aloud may seem like a trivial task to a literate adult, which it is not. Reading a word aloud entails a multitude of different processes (identifying printed symbols, converting them into phonological representations and selecting the appropriate one, blending the sounds together, among others). It is not surprising that for many children, learning to read turns out to be a long and effortful process.
On November 12 Dina Birman (PhD, Associate Professor at School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Editor-in-chief of the journal "International Journal of Intercultural Relations") took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Acculturation and Adaptation of Russian immigrants in the U.S.".
On November 3, Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García, PhD in Economics, University of Barcelona, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the «Culture Matters» research seminar with the presentation of the program of the course "Money and Finacial Behavior" for master’s program "Applied social psychology" and made a report on "An overview on economic and financial behavior".
Prof. Aleskerov, the Head of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis gave a talk at the 6th Moscow Supercomputing Forum (MSCF 2015) that took place in Moscow on October 29-30, 2015
A research seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis took place at HSE. Constantine Sorokin delivered a report on 'Comparative Statics in Common Value Auctions and Beyond'.
On 15 October Elena Yureneva, MD, Executive Director of the Discerning Health, health worker of Community Development International, senior researcher at clinical safety of Merck Clinical Research Team Management (Pennsylvania, USA) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Questions of Euthanasia".
On October 8 Dmitry Podolskiy, PhD, Associate Professor of Organization Theory, of the Department of Public Policy (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Assessment of personal and professional potential of representatives of administrative elite of Russian Federation regions".
