HSE University-St Petersburg opened a representative office of the Satellite Laboratory on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Campinas in Brazil. The platform is going to unite research and educational projects in the spheres of sustainable development, communications and social innovations.
Women are more likely than men to avoid political and economic news, but the reasons for this behaviour are linked less to structural inequality or family-related stress than to personal attitudes and the emotional perception of news content. This conclusion was reached by HSE researchers after analysing data from a large-scale survey of more than 10,000 residents across 61 regions of Russia. The study findings have been published in Woman in Russian Society.
The HSE International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy studies logic and rationality in a transformed world characterised by a diversity of logical systems and rational agents. The laboratory supports and develops academic ties with Russian and international partners. The HSE News Service spoke with the head of the laboratory, Prof. Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, about its work.
Kistler D., Thöni C., Welzel C., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2017 Vol. 48 No. 4 P. 461–489
Since decades, cross-cultural psychology examines moral values using data from standardized surveys, assuming that values guide human behavior. We add to this literature by studying the link between moral values and various forms of prosocial behavior, using data from respondents of the sixth World Values Survey in Germany who participated in an online behavioral experiment. ...
Gavrilov K. A., В кн.: Онлайн-исследования в России: тенденции и перспективы.: М.: ООО "Онлайн маркет интеллидженс", 2016. С. 185–200.
In our study we analyze the influence of two factors on the acceptance of an invitation to participate in an online survey among university students. The first factor is the acquaintanceship with the invitation initiator, the second — the professional solidarity of sociology students (when they are invited by a sociologist). We used a sample ...
Mavletova A. M., Deviatko I. F., Maloshonok N., Bulletin of Sociological Methodology 2014 Vol. 123 No. 1 P. 68–79
This paper investigates the effects on response and breakoff rates in Web surveys of e-mail invitation design elements including: subject line, estimated survey duration, and invitation length. The analysis is focused not only on the main effects, but also on an issue which has not yet been studied systematically: interaction effects between these design elements. ...