We are strongly concerned about the plans of the Hungarian government according to which the supervision and budgetary control over the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is going to be taken over by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology from the MTA.

See below the proclamation of Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

http://mta.hu/english/the-academy-stands-by-its-independence-and-the-freedom-of-research-108816

We are strongly concerned about the plans of the Hungarian government according to which the supervision and budgetary control over the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is going to be taken over by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology from the MTA.

See below the proclamation of Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

http://mta.hu/english/the-academy-stands-by-its-independence-and-the-freedom-of-research-108816

The paper of Károly Takács as a co-author with Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni "Referrals and Information Flow in Networks Increase Discrimination: A Laboratory Experiment" has been published by Social Networks. (Impact factor: 2.462)

The paper of Szabolcs Számadó as a co-author with József Garay, Villő Csiszár, Tamás F. Móri, András Szilágyi and Zoltán Varga "Juvenile honest food soliciation and parental investment as a life history strategy" has been published by PLOS One  (Impact Factor: 2.806)

The paper of Szabolcs Számadó as a co-author with Dustin J. Penn "Does the handicap principle explain the evolution of dimorphic ornaments?" has been published by Animal Behaviour  (Impact Factor: 2.869)

RECENS proudly presents the video for our ERC funded project (acronym: EVILTONGUE, grant agreement No 648693). 
 

Workshop on Gossip, Reputation, and Honesty

17-18 May, 2018
Budapest, Hungary
http://recens.tk.mta.hu/en/gossip-workshop-2018

Anti-immigration discourses in Hungary during the ‘crisis’ year: the Orbán government’s ‘National Consultation’ campaign of 2015. (In Sociology 2018. 3. sz. Impact factor: 1.96)

Bullies and Victims in Primary Schools -

The Associations between Bullying, Victimization, and Students’ Ethnicity and Academic Achievement

This study examines the associations between four types of peer-reported bullying and peer-reported victimization (mocking, physical bullying, negative gossip, cyberbullying), and students’ ethnicity and academic achievement among sixth-grade Hungarian primary school students.

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The paper of Szabolcs Számadó as a co-author with István Zachar, András Szilágyi and Eörs Szathmáry, "Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection" has been published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Impact Factor: 9.7)