Congratulations to our graduates on the successful defense of the master theses and the award of a master's degree

On 7-8 June 2022 students of the Applied social psychology Master’s program in HSE defended their theses in front of the HSE committee and successfully graduated.

We congratulate our graduates on the successful defense of their master theses and wish them nothing but greater heights in their endeavors to come.

We would like to congratulate all the students for their interesting and intriguing work. Their thesis’ topics were quite diverse and had new study ideas and approaches. For example, Asya Karimova studied “The relationship of ethnicity and perception of bullying among Russian students: the moderating role of stereotypes”, Alexander Feigin presented his thesis «The Impact of Telling Secrets of Others on Perceived Closeness, Benevolence-, and Integrity-Based Trust», Vladislava Verbnaya shared the results of her study «The Influence of Perceived Antisemitism on Psychological Adaptation of Russian Jews: The Mediating Role of Multicultural Identity Styles».

Several papers have addressed issues related to COVID-19 vaccination: Maya Lalic wrote her thesis on “COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake and Associated Factors Among the Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Application of Health Belief Model”. Ksenia Nikolaeva studied “Attitudes towards covid-19 vaccination among Russians: the role of institutional trust, cost of behavior and perceived risks”.

All the presentations inspired questions and discussions. And the following points for further research emerged in the process.

After the defense, everyone was in good spirits. Chief Academic Supervisor Alexander Tatarko praised the creative approaches in the students' research. We sincerely hope to meet again and to continue working together.