Andrey Vorchik studies happiness, delivers popular science lectures, and believes that science should address social issues as well. In an interview for the Young Scientists of HSE University project, he spoke about how emotions influence decision-making, the Bermuda Triangle formed by the bathroom, refrigerator, and bed, and the ideal formula for education.
Physicist Nina Dzhanayeva, recipient of a Vladimir Potanin Foundation scholarship, focuses her research on nanophotonics. In this interview for the HSE Young Scientists project, she discusses nanowells, scientific intuition, and how physics can help in making frangipane cream puffs.
A team of Russian researchers, including scientists from HSE University–St Petersburg, has developed the first open multimodal dataset containing recordings of brain activity, heart function, and video observations to help researchers understand what happens in the human brain during deep concentration. In the future, the dataset could accelerate the development of neural interfaces, rehabilitation technologies, and AI systems. The article has been published in Scientific Data.
Most psychological theories and research on shame focus on the uglyaspects and negative consequences of this emotion. Theories on moral emotions, however, assume that shame acts as a commitment devicemotivating prosocial behavior. To solve this apparent paradox, the authors studied the effects of shame on prosocial behavior. Shame was hypothesized to motivate prosocial behavior when it was relevant for the decision at hand (endogenous). In contrast, shame that was not relevant for the decision at hand (exogenous) was hypothesized to have no such effects. Four experiments with three different shame inductions and two different measures of prosocial behavior confirmed that endogenous shamemotivated prosocial behavior for proselfs but that exogenous shame did not.Shame is shown to have a clear interpersonal function in the sense that itacts as a commitment device.
The article proposes an affective theory of social order, taking as its starting point the phenomenon of "Spanish shame" (ispanski styd) – the vicarious embarrassment experienced by a bystander witnessing another person's social failure. Tracing three competing etymological accounts of the expression, the author argues that the uncertainty of its origin is not a defect ...
Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Prosocial behavior measures validated across diverse cultural contexts remain limited. We validated the Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale (APBS) in 7,965 Russian adults (52.0% women; Mage = 42.4, SD = 12.1) using sampling weights to approximate population representativeness. Split-sample analyses supported a two-factor structure with correlated Prosocial Actions and Prosocial Feelings dimensions (χ² = 2,754.87, CFI = .978, TLI ...
Rean A., Alexandrov Y., Ставцев А. А. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2025 Т. 18 № 3 С. 101–119
Context and relevance. This article presents empirical findings from a study examining the relationship between psychological well-being indicators (life satisfaction, self-esteem, and self-efficacy), 24 personal strengths (based on the Values In Action model, VIA), and the analytical-holistic scale. The research draws on data from socio-psychological and experimental psychophysiological studies. The primary objective is to investigate how the 24 ...
Реан А. А., Шевченко А. О., Ставцев А. А. et al., Российский психологический журнал 2024 Т. 21 № 3 С. 250–263
Introduction. Positive neuroscience is an integrative area that aims to study physiological mechanisms in a positive-psychological context. The research of this field touches the problematics of prosocial behavior, personality strengths (VIA), well-being and altruism. The novelty of this research includes theoretical substantiation of the formation of a new direction for the scientific space in Russia ...
Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Melville A. Y., Каберник В. В., Mironyuk M. et al., / МГИМО МИД России. 2024.
Данный аналитический доклад является одним из результатов исследований в рамках консорциума НИУ ВШЭ и МГИМО. В нем прежде всего раскрыты вопросы концептуализации национальной мощи и сопутствующих категорий и дается обзор прецедентов. Далее рассматриваются вопросы операционализации предлагаемых нами компонентов национальной мощи. В следующих разделах доклада предлагается анализ вопросов методологии, используемой в докладе. На этой основе предложен ...
Nastina E., Andiappan M., Miles A. et al., Journal of Social Psychology 2026 Vol. 166 No. 3 P. 316–329
In this paper, we use data from a longitudinal online study to examine how characteristics of prosocial behaviors influence the level of positive affect they produce. Although much work has found that prosocial behaviors benefit those who enact them, the question remains if and how these effects vary based on characteristics of those acts. Using ...
Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2024.
This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample ...
Лебедева Е. И., Виленская Г. А., Уланова А. Ю. et al., Психологический журнал 2023 Т. 44 № 1 С. 43–54
The aim of this study was to explore the role of theory of mind - the ability to attribute mental states to other people to explain their behavior - in the development of social competence and prosocial behavior in adolescence. It is assumed that there is a difference in the manifestation of prosocial behavior and ...
This study focuses on examining the role of language as an attribute in the construction of ethnicity within the Korean community in Kazakhstan. The research examines how language functions as an attribute in the categorization and identification processes, and how it interacts with other ethnic attributes such as descent and appearance. Drawing on qualitative methods, ...
Микаелян А. Л., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Literary Studies". 2024. No. 28.
The article presents an attempt to examine Goethe's poem "Reineke Fox" in connection with the discussion between Goethe and Schiller about the nature of epic poetry and the principles of its renewal within the poetics of "Weimar Classicism". Goethe introduced into his interpretation of the medieval story of the Fox a number of innovations at various ...
Remnev N., Obiedkov S., Rakhilina E. V. et al., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2023.
Grammatical error correction is one of the fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing. For the Russian language, most of the spellcheckers available correct typos and other simple errors with high accuracy, but often fail when faced with non-native (L2) writing, since the latter contains errors that are not typical for native speakers. In this paper, ...
Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
In this paper, I apply linguistic methods of analysis to non-linguistic data, chess plays, metaphorically equating one with the other and seeking analogies. Chess game notations are also a kind of text, and one can consider the records of moves or positions of pieces as words and statements in a certain language. In this article ...
Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
Burrows' Delta was introduced in 2002 and has proven to be an effective tool for author attribution. Despite the fact that it was applied to different languages, they mostly belong to the same grammatical type and use the same graphic principle to convey speech in writing: a phonemic alphabet with word separation using spaces. The question ...
Zolotareva A., Социальная и клиническая психиатрия 2024 Т. 34 № 2 С. 36–42
In order to examine the association between shame of a skin disorder and psychopathology, 190 persons with skin disorders (dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, urticaria and neurodermatitis) have been interviewed. Results showed that 39.5% of respondents had anxiety symptoms, 43.7% had depressive symptoms, 65.8% had somatic symptoms, 54.2% had excessively intense thoughts, feelings or behavioral reactions associated ...
M. V. Efremova, Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2023 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 40–48
The COVID-19 pandemic has unprecedentedly influenced social interactions, which can be implemented both in real life (offline) and on the Internet. Prosocial behavior as a type of social interactions has a positive impact on individuals and society, especially during crises. Prosocial behavior is determined by various factors, including individual values and contextual factors as the ...
M. А. Bultseva, Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2023 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 31–39
The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant negative impact on people’s life and behavior. This happens due to circumstances beyond the control of people, which lead to social isolation, increase in fear, anxiety, and other negative feelings and states. However, these negative feelings and states may have not only negative consequences, but also trigger prosocial behavior as a coping strategy. Prosocial ...
Nastina E., Deviatko I. F., Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2023 Vol. 40 No. 9 P. 3004–3027
Numerous studies show that prosocial behavior leads to positive emotional outcomes for the actor, yet does it matter, who the beneficiary is? The present paper explores differential effects of helping acts towards close versus distant recipients on subjective well-being and the role that basic psychological needs play in this relationship. Two studies using event-recall (N ...
Shepelenko A., Kosonogov V., Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 2023 Vol. 53 No. 2 P. 242–246
Prosocial behavior is a complex process of social interactions whose cerebral support has received insufficient study. Two major groups of factors motivating people to donate their resources for others' benefit have been identified – the altruistic and the egoistic. Regardless of motivation, activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is seen during donation-related decision-taking. In addition, ...