Brief description of the experience
Alexandre holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. Has 4 years of teaching experience, which includes various subjects of psychology; Including his original course on the psychology of ideology, "Ideology as Motivated Social Cognition", which he teaches to graduate students in political psychology at GIPA. His research experience spans a wide range of skills and research topics.
Courses:
- Psychology of Ideology: Ideology as Motivated Social Cognition
- Main Schools of Thought in Psychology
- Introduction to Psychology
Research and Publications:
- Avaliani, A. (2023). Scientific Foundations of Measuring Ideology and Political Orientation in Georgia: qualitative analysis of instruments. Journal of Politics and Democratization (JPD), 54-74.
- Dumbadze, S., Avaliani, A., & Akhobadze, I., (2022). Development of Health Beliefs Model (HBM) Scale to Study Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccine. Georgian Psychological Journal, 9-24. Retrieved from https://www.tsu.ge/assets/media/files/48/jurnalebi/Qartuli-Fsiqologiuri-Jurnali-2022.pdf
- Avaliani, A. (2021). Covid-19 and Politics: National and International Test of the Parasite Model of Democratization. The 7th Annual CRRC Conference: Taking Stock of Change: South Caucasus After a Turbulent Year, (pp. 10-11).
- Avaliani, A. (2018). Set Types and Political Orientation. Master’s thesis, GIPA, Tbilisi.
- Dumbadze, S., Avaliani, A., & Chxeidze, T. (2023). Variables related to vaccination against COVID-19. The International Journal of Psychology
- Avaliani, A., Dumbadze, S., & Akhobadze, I., (2023). Development of Georgian version of the VAX (the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale) scale. preprint.
Projects:
- Differential Psychology of Political Orientation of Georgian Voters. A nationally representative, correlational, and experimental study of the relationships between the aforementioned political and psychological variables. Project leader and main author.
- Psychological and Socio-demographic Predictors of Intention to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19. Researcher.
Research interests:
Social psychology, political psychology, moral psychology, Psychology of Set, evolutionary psychology.
