Vasily Kostenko

Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology
Programme Academic Supervisor: Positive Psychology

Vasily Kostenko has been at HSE University since 2012.

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Education and Degrees

2017

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)

2011

Degree
Orel State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2023. 6th School of young scientists "Basics of healthy nutrition and ways of prevention of alimentary-dependent diseases. Stress, nutrition, adaptation". October, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety, Moscow.

2022. Anti-crisis digital communications in the admission campaign. June, HSE University, St. Petersburg.

2020. Entrepreneurial thinking and support of students' entrepreneurial projects. May-June, HSE University, Moscow.

2018. Wachstum ermöglichen. Veränderungsprozesse begleiten in Psychotherapie und Beratung. 26 - 30 April 2018, GLE-International, Dresden, Germany

2017. Data Analysis in Social Sciences.
23 July - 6 August 2017, Summer School, Moscow district

2014. Autumn School on Data Analysis.
20 - 28 October 2014, Voronovo Trainig Centre, Moscow

2014. Stanford Online. Writing in the Sciences.
September - November 2014, Online Course

2012. GESIS Summer School on Survey Methodology: Web Surveys
11 - 25 August 2012 Cologne, Germany

Professional Interests

personality psychology psychometrics personality development

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2024, 2021, 2019
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2017–2018)

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
M. M. Grishutina Possible Self as the resource of self-regulation
2
E. Voevodina Dimensions of Meaning and Eudaimonia at Different Levels of Ego Development
3
E. Nazina Meta-synthesis of models of personal changes in the context of life events
4
Self-regulation capacities at different stages of ego development

Courses (2024/2025)

Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 3 year, 2 semester)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 2 semester)Rus

Courses (2023/2024)

Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Personality Development (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 2 semester)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Research Seminar: Academic Approaches to Personality Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
Theories of Personality (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology, field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2022/2023)

Academic Approaches to Personality Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Theories of Personality (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology, field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Workshop: Design and Measurement in Personality Psychology Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2021/2022)

Academic Approaches to Personality Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
Personality Development (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Professional Development of Psychologist (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Project Seminar "Applied Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Project Seminar "Applied Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Theories of Personality 1 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Theories of Personality 2 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 2 module)Rus
Workshop: Design and Measurement in Personality Psychology Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2020/2021)

Personality Development (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Project Seminar "Applied Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Positive Psychology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Theories of Personality 1 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Theories of Personality 2 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 3 year, 2 module)Rus

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Grants

2023-2026. The Potential of Agency: An Approach through the Possible Self and the Quality of Choice (Russian Science Foundation, principal investigator).

2020-2022. Measurement of Personality Development with Sentence Completion Test: Conceptual Issues and the Status of the Rater (Russian Science Foundation, principal investigator).

2020-2021. Variety of Possible Selves: The Role of Agency and Empirical Evidence Review (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, principal investigator).

2019-2021. Development of Personality in Students with Disability in Conditions of Inclusive Distance Learning (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

2017-2019. Personality Development Through the Transition from Childhood to Adulthood: Psychological Mechanisms, Indicators, and Trajectories (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

2016-2017. Investigation of the Psychological Characteristics of Parenthood of a Child with Developmental Disabilities in Biological and Foster Families (Russian Foundation for Humanities).

2014-2016. The Role of Inner Dialogue and Self-reflection in Personality Self-regulation, Self-attitude, and Self-development (Russian Foundation for Humanities).

Conferences

2018
International Symposium "Happiness beyond well-being" (Москва). Presentation: Through the lens of personality development: Where mindfulness and self-reflection come into balance?
Международная научно-практическая конференция «Личность в эпоху перемен: mobilis in mobili» (Москва). Presentation: Ресурсы саморегуляции в их связи с развитием личности

2017
17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (Tokio, Japan). Presentation: Further evidence for Vygotsky's laws of personality development
9th SELF Biennial International Conference (Melbourne, Australia). Presentation: Impossible selves: empirical specification of H. Markus' Possible selves theory

2016
9th International Conference on Dialogical Self (Lublin, Poland). Presentation: The contribution of self-reflection and inner dialogue to ego development
II Международный семинар "Психология диалога и мир человека" (Уфа). Presentation: Внутренняя диалоговая активность и рефлексивные процессы на различных уровнях развития личности

2015
III Всероссийская конференция по психологической диагностике (Челябинск). Presentation: Проблема психометрической проверки методик с выбором номинативного варианта ответа

2013
1st World Conference on Personality (Stellenbosch, South Africa). Presentation: Using the Internet in longitudinal personality research: advantages and restrictions

2012
6th European Conference on Positive Psychology (Москва). Presentation: Член организационного комитета

Employment history

From 2012 I have been working in the Laboratory of Positive Psychology under the guidance of prof. D.A. Leontiev (at first in the Academic Group of Positive Psychology and Quality of Life, then in the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation); from 2020 to the present time, I am an associate professor in the School of Psychology and academic supervisor of master's program "Positive Psychology." I lead academic and applied research projects and develop education programs.

Responsibilities

Academic supervision of the master's program "Positive Psychology". Management of applied projects. Conducting academic research on personality development.

Jul

2023

Russian Science Foundation Supports 15 Projects by HSE’s Early-Career Researchers

The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of the youth contests of the Presidential Programme. HSE University’s early-career researchers are receiving grants for research projects in economics, psychology, sociology, political science, law, mathematics, information science, optics, engineering, and ocean studies.

Jul

2018

When There Is No One Around

How solitude differs from loneliness