Щебетенко Сергей Александрович

Education and Degrees

2018

Doctor of Sciences* in General psychology, personality psychology
Thesis Title: Personality traits in mind reflection and life outcomes

2005

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in General psychology, personality psychology
Thesis Title: Self-concept, empathy and closeness in relations between readers and folktale characters

1998

Degree in Psychology
Perm State Pedagogical University, Psychology

* 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.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2023 - English language proficiency, Level Advanced (SkyEng; May 2023)

2020 - English language proficiency, Level C2 (EF Education First, Moscow, Russia; February 2020);

2019 - General English: Pre-Advanced 2 (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; October-December 2019);
2018 - Teach for HSE (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; December 2018);

2018 - English language proficiency, Level C1 (EF Education First, Moscow, Russia; September 2018);

2011 - R software and robust statistics for personality and individual differences (European Association for Personality Psychology, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, University of Bologna Residential Centre; J. Asendorpf, M. Perugini, R. Wilcox, R. Sherman, F. Schönbrodt; Bertinoro, Italy, July 2011);

2010 - SPSS in psychology and social sciences (Saint Petersburg State University, psychology faculty; A. Nasledov; Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 2010);

2008 - Language internship and cultural exchange (St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford; K. Hewitt; Oxford, UK; November - December 2008).

Professional Interests

personality individual differences Big Five psychometrics personality traits social attitudes social cognition quantitative methods in social science psychology of reflection

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2020–2021
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2019)

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
A. Mishkevich Changeability of personality traits and attitudes toward traitsin short time intervals, 2020
2
Indicators of personality traits in visual language: a psycho-lexical study of emoji taxonomy on the Russian sample

Courses (2024/2025)

Applied Psychometry in Psychological Research (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 1 semester)Rus

Courses (2023/2024)

Personality Traits: Theory and Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Psychology of Personality and Individual Differences (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Psychometric Theories and Analysis of Test Items (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 1 semester)Rus
Trait Theories: Advanced Course (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

2021
Psy-Вышка: конференция молодых ученых (Москва). Presentation: Изменчивость и стабильность черт личности: современное состояние проблемы
Psy-Вышка: конференция молодых ученых (Москва). Presentation: Изменчивость и стабильность черт личности: современное состояние проблемы

2019
3rd World Conference on Personality (Ханой). Presentation: Self-argumentation in favor or against extraversion: Does it change the trait and the attitudes toward it?

2018
19th European Conference on Personality (Задар). Presentation: Changing attitudes toward personality traits: An experimental evidence

2017
The Biennial Association for Research in Personality Conference (Сакраменто). Presentation: Are attitudes toward traits and values the same?

2016
The Second World Conference on Personality (Бузиос). Presentation: The links between traits and evaluations of painting genres: Do attitudes toward traits matter?
The Second World Conference on Personality (Бузиос). Presentation: Reflexive characteristic adaptations produced incremental effects on sample attrition as compared to personality traits
The Second World Conference on Personality (Бузиос). Presentation: Reflexive characteristic adaptations

2013
The 1st World Conference on Personality. (Stellenbosch). Presentation: Attitudes toward big five traits: A correlational study

2012
European Conference on Personality (ECP) (Trieste). Presentation: How right-wing authoritarianism relates to attitudes toward Islam among Russian Orthodox undergraduates?

2008
IV Международная конференция РКА "Коммуникация в современной парадигме социального и гуманитарного знания" (Коммуникация-2008) (Москва). Presentation: Вклад когнитивной нагрузки в восприятие иммигрантов

2006
Всероссийская конференция "Психология индивидуальности" (Москва). Presentation: Пространственное Я и черты личности: гендерные сравнения

2005
International Congress on Aesthetics, Creativity and Psychology of the Arts (Пермь). Presentation: Merging vs. detachment attitudes of readers toward folktale characters

Editorial board membership

2022: Member of the Editorial Board , Review of Communication Research.

2020: Member of the Editorial Board , Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики (Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics).

Grants

2021-23 "Russian taxonomy of personality traits" (Russian Science Foundation: 21-18-00127)

2019-20 “Psychometrics of the Russian version of the Big Five Inventory-2” (National Research University Higher School of Economics, individual grant 19-01-003)

2018 “Attitudes toward traits and change of behaviour: On the example of extraversion (Russian Foundation for Basic Research);

2012-13 “Implicit attitudes toward out-groups members among the Ural region inhabitants” (Russian Humanities Fund (RGNF) grant 120330102500);

2012-13 “Psychodiagnostics of personality traits: Implicit and explicit approaches” (Ministry
of Education and Science of the Russian Federation 120222103404);

2011 The European Association for Personality Psychology scholarship for a summer school participation (Bertinoro, University of Bologna)

2006-07 “The image of immigrants among Russians” (Russian Humanities Fund (RGNF) grant N 06-06-82602 a/U);

2000 Perm region governor scholarship for postgraduates.

Peer-reviews

Computers in Human Behavior: 2019-21 (7)

European Journal of Personality: 2020

Personality and Individual Differences: 2021

PLOS ONE: 2018-22 (2)

Psychology, Health, & Medicine: 2020

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology: 2019

International Journal of Internet Science: 2017

International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology: 2016

Employment history

2018- National Research University Higher School of Economics, school of psychology (professor);

2012- Perm State University, developmental psychology department (senior researcher, associate professor, professor, 2012-);

2010-11 State University Higher School of Economics (Perm campus), school of management, associate professor;

2001-12 Perm State University, general and clinical psychology department (assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor);

1999-2007 Perm State Institute of Art and Culture, psychology department (instructor, lecturer, senior lecturer).

31

Jan

2019

Settings on personality traits: a parallel world of individual differences

Together with Sergey Shchebetenko we discussed what a person thinks and how he evaluates his personality traits, which we reveal in questionnaires.

Sergei Shchebetenko