Faculty's first research seminar hosts psychology Professor Dr. Oleksii Polunin

We are happy to inform you that on October 18th from 16.15-17.15 the first research seminar of the Faculty of Social sciences will take place in Lossi 36 room 305. The aim of the seminars will be to introduce what (foreign guest) researchers at our faculty are up to and to promote cooperation. 

The first presenter at the seminar is Professor of Psychology Dr. Oleksii Polunin from Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, who is in Tartu for fall semester 2017 thanks to the Open Society Foundations scholarship program. During his stay in Tartu he will concentrate on studying the psychological mechanisms of corruptive behavior. Dr. Polunins other research areas include social psychology, time perception and mechanisms related to the time perception of individuals, decision-making, political participation and voting behavior. 

Dr. Polunin will hold a presentation titled Cognitive representation of time as factor in individual decision making and he has introduced the presentation as follows:

Based on the experimental studies on the role of cognitive time-representation in decision making (Polunin, 2009-2016) the presentation highlights the idea about the mind's ability to develop a multitude of different representations of time flow. Each of the cognitive representations of time flow has its specific features and accordingly impacts on the object’s representation over time. Thus one and the same object can show different variations in value along one and the same time interval. This contributes to variability of human behavior, namely to the variability of outcomes in decision making. In general, the results challenge the conventional singularity of mental time flow.

More info:

Tene Viiburg

tene.viiburg@ut.ee