Evgeny Osin

Evgeny Osin is an Associate Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre, where he is affiliated with the laboratory LINP2 and with the Centre d'études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Before moving to Paris in 2020, Osin held an Associate Professor position in the Psychology faculty at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow from 2009 to 2020, and prior to that was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. Osin received a specialist degree and a Ph.D. in General Psychology from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2004 and 2007 respectively, and later completed training in existential analysis at the Institute of Practical Psychology in Moscow. Research interests include meaning, well-being, self-determination theory, psychometrics, and the psychological dimensions of political attitudes, including work on propaganda, authoritarianism, and value-instantiating beliefs in the context of Russia and Ukraine.