Researchers at ELTE and the University of Arizona were the first to discover how the brain encodes social hierarchy by studying the brain activity of monkeys.
Children can learn about the world around them in different ways. They can be helped by adults through “pedagogical” transfer of knowledge, or they can explore their environment on their own,…
Since the 2010s, a new – but actually old – trend has emerged in Hungary: analogue music listening. Researchers at ELTE PPK wondered why more and more people are returning to vinyl record players and…
How can problem solving be taught effectively? What is the role of transferable knowledge in higher education and the labour market? How do different components of physical fitness affect mental…
These studies, published in December by ELTE PPK researchers, explore current issues such as modern domestic career orientation, the challenges of online education, the development of children’s…
Balázs Aczél, ELTE PPK’s Vice-Dean for Research and Head of the Metascience Research Group, recently attended a psychology conference where he made a worrying observation: from among the 1500 studies…
Researchers at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of ELTE conducted a new study to investigate whether there is a connection between the "Dark Triad"—narcissism, psychopathy, and…
There has been a lot of research into what we as adults can do to avoid falling into the trap of fake news – but what about adolescents? In a recent study, researchers from ELTE PPK investigated what…
In a parody of the Nobel Prizes, the 34th edition of the Ignobel Prizes have been awarded in Cambridge, USA. One of the winners was a research project involving ELTE PPK staff. The Ignobel Prize is…
The verbal intelligence of artificial intelligence-based software was studied at ELTE PPK. The research showed that the machines outperform even native speakers with a doctoral degree in terms of…
