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Why economic growth does not necessarily contribute to human happiness

Why the institution of fatherhood is taking so long to change

Russian companies' corporate values are not associated with higher profits.

Altruism based on individual values is changing Western society. People in Western countries have seen a rise in individualism for quite some time, and this in turn helps to create generations of people with altruistic mindsets. Christian Welzel, Chief Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE and Leuphana University of Lüneburg), teamed up with researchers from the University of Lausanne to conduct a study showing the connection between emancipative values and prosocial behaviour. The results of the study were published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Attitudes to hipsters differ from judgmental in Moscow to fairly positive in Nizhny Novgorod.

Commercials could be far more effective by addressing consumers’ attitudes and values.

A comparative cross-cultural study conducted by the HSE International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation has found that Russians tend to be as open with their friends as Americans, but unlike Americans, Russians prefer to hide their happiness when talking to strangers or government officials.

Europeans tend to be tolerant towards immigrants of their own ethnicity, but not always willing to live next to ethnic outsiders.

A Russian translation of Christian Welzel's Freedom Rising has been released.

Students with high levels of risk acceptance are more likely to have problems with adapting to academic life and making it to graduation.

Once married, women tend to feel better off financially, while men report higher respect from others.