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On the 1st of February, a workshop on validity/validation of psychologicalmeasures was held. It was presented by Matúš Adamkovič. After a short general introduction to the topic of measurement in behavioural sciences and alternatives of conceptualization of the variables (i.e., formative model vs. reflective model vs. network model), the workshop continued with examples of practical

PhDr. Tatiana Pethö, PhD. At the beginning of my psychology studies, I had a clear idea of my professional future, namely how my client is lying on the couch and I am in a position as a psychotherapist. That means I’ve been thinking about the path of clinical psychologist and long-term psychotherapeutic training. Over time,

Mať volá! Propaganda výmeny obyvateľstva medzi Československom a Maďarskom – teoretické aspekty – is the title of a new publication in which the author Lucia Heldáková analyses the propaganda aspects of the mentioned event realized after the Second World War on Hungarian territory. After the Second World War, minority policy itself integrated the aspect of

The crisis of trust in Slovakia? Yes, or no? This is a question asked by our two colleagues Miroslava Bozogáňová and Ivana Piterová in the recently published book “Crisis of Trust”. The book, which was edited by Matúš Grežo, in collaboration with other colleagues from the Institute of Experimental Psychology CSPS SAS, also explains what

This year´s Researchers´ Night was different from previous years. Due to the current unfavourable situation, the festival moved into online format. However, this situation didn´t stop scientists from The Institute of Social Sciences CSPS SAS to participate in this event. This year´s motto was Science without borders. The activities of the science festival were concentrated

Last week, our colleagues Miroslava Bozogáňová and Jana Papcunová participated in the Week of Science and Technology. Within the programme, they prepared an online educational lecture with the title Free speech versus hate speech, intended for eighth and ninth graders of Marek Križin Elementary School in Košice. The lecture took place within the subject Civics

„From a viewpoint of society, teacher is someone that arrives at home at 2 pm and always has holidays. Society does not see time spend by work and does not perceive importance of our job for future of country,” shared his opinion teacher in online survey, which was organized by Centre of Social and Psychological

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Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences became one of the project partners in the new Interreg Danube Transnational Programme DREAM ROAD. The initial kick-off meeting of the project took place online on October 7, 2020. The scheduled complexion of the project is December 31, 2022.   The name of

Today we commemorate the establishment of the common state of Czechs and Slovaks. Listen to listen to the comment of our colleague Ondrej Ficeri for Radio Regina východ: Archív RTVS. “The government of one will be replaced by the government of all.” (T. G. Masaryk) #history #czechoslovakia #czechoslovakiaanniversary #czechoslovakia1918 #brotherhood #masaryk #TGM #Stefanik #milanrastislavstefanik #benes

The Open Conference on the project “Cities in the Enlarged European Area: Joint Development of Capacities of Public Institutions by Slovak-Ukrainian Cross-border Cooperation and Improving the Integrity in Public Affairs (CEEA)” took place online on October 8th, 2020.  Participating, were 25 representatives from national and foreign institutions who were cooperating on the project. These came

Mgr. Viktória Hičárová, PhD. Something about me and psychology I decided to study psychology sometimes when I was a student at high school and somehow  I ended up at Trnava´s university, where after five years I earned my bachelor´s and master´s degree in psychology. As just graduated and being full of enthusiasm I started to work as a clinical psychologist and later as

Marek Dobeš (CSPS SAS) and Pavol Drotár (TUKE) research the question whether it is possible for a computer algorithm to detect from a sample of writing whether a child may be dysgraphic. The research is supported by the APVV grant “Computer-Aided Decision Support System for Hepatic Encephalopathy” and by the VEGA grant “Computational model of

Mgr. Dominka Havrillová Where did my all journey od psychology begin? I first met psychology in high school in civics lessons. We tried different tests, did experiments. Psychology began to attract me with its peculiarity and mystery. This interest deepend more and more and I started searching for various psychological books and researching on the Internet. Subsequently,

Statistical-methodological seminars with our colleague Matúš continue. However, the extraordinary situation made our meetings virtual and on Monday, 27 April 2020, we jumped head-first into our first webinar. Successfully! Matúš told us about the basic concepts related to meta-analysis, its advantages and disadvantages (especially in comparison with narrative survey studies) and also outlined more specific

Between 21 and 23 April 2020, international online meetings and discussions took place on the organizational and methodological issues of the implementation of the 10th data collection round of the European Social Survey. On 21 April 2020, Denisa Fedáková and Veronika Szeghy-Gayer from the Institute of Social Sciences at the Centre of Social and Psychological