Lasha Lanchava's paper in PLOS ONE
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Lasha Lanchava, a research fellow at ISET Policy Institute, published a new paper titled “No Evidence of Association between Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Financial Risk Taking in Females” in PLOS ONE, a peer reviewed scientific journal. He coauthored paper with Mr. Nave and Mr. Carlson – researchers from California Institute of Technology, Ms. Šebánková and Jaroslav Flegr – of Charles University, and a leading scholar of adverse influences of Toxoplasma gondii infection on human personality and behavior.
With a large body of literature, the paper demonstrated Toxoplasma patients’ increased vulnerability to mental and neurological disorders and their increased tendencies to be involved in traffic accidents. The authors hypothesized that Toxoplasma infected patients would display altered attitudes towards risk when compared to healthy subjects.
Teaching Development Program at ISET
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ISET faculty attended Teaching Development Program on September 21-25, 2015 conducted by Deborah Nováková – head of the Academic Skills Center at CERGE-EI.
The course consisted of a series of collaborative workshops, grounded in Economics Education literature. The topics covered during the program included: Preparing Courses and Classes and Tools for Teaching, Handling Difficult Groups, Cheating and Plagiarism, Assessing Students, Evaluating Teachers, and several others. The workshops provided a platform for discussion on how the main findings in the literature relate to the specific teaching realities of each participant. Each session was followed by a group discussion and presentation of case studies.
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