Direction:Psychology
Position:Assistant Professor
Born in 1985 in Tbilisi, Georgia, she graduated from public school № 23 in 2002. She took her first career steps in 1999 as an author for Tbilisi Pastimes, an English-language local magazine. In 2000, she had been writing newspaper columns in Georgian Eco Digest under the heading Alice in Georgia. In 2003, she had been publishing a Teenager Column for the newspaper 24 Saati about societal-political events happening in the country. Since then, at different stages of her career, she has been working regularly for cultural or social sections of numerous Georgian print or online media, including magazines Anabechdi, Tskheli Shokoladi, DiALOgue, Tabula, Indigo, National Geographic Georgia (as a translator), Forbes Georgia (both, as an author and a translator), NewsGeTV, At.ge. Alongside writing, she has been engaged in academic pursuits since 2002; a bachelor of social sciences (2006) and a master of psychology of clinical psychology programme (2009) from Tbilisi State University, she got her doctoral degree in psychology in 2018 at Ilia State University (ISU). In 2011, she was the first to translate Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in Georgian. Incidentally, the main topic of her doctoral research was also prejudice. Since 2017, She has been teaching different psychology courses to bachelor’s and master’s students at ISU and has supervised one bachelor’s and five master’s projects thus far. An assistant professor at ISU from December 2018, she is a senior research fellow/research associate at ISU’s Dimitri Uznadze Institute of Psychology since 2012 and is involved in planning and carrying out various local and international research projects and writing study reports, as well as adapting and validating research instruments.
Scientific interests / research interests
Intergroup relations; prejudice; threat; anxiety as an underlying mechanism for traditional values and ritual practices; cognitive rigidity; identity; evolution of psychological constructs and paradigms in historical context; question of operationalization in psychology
Featured publications
Makashvili, Ana, Irina Vardanashvili, and Nino Javakhishvili. “Testing Intergroup Threat Theory: Realistic and Symbolic Threats, Religiosity and Gender as Predictors of Prejudice.” Europe’s Journal of Psychology 14, no. 3 (2018): 464–484. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v14i2.1483.
Books
Aronson, Elliot. Social Animal [in Georgian]. Edited by Nino Javakhishvili. Translated by Ketevan Todadze, Ana Makashvili, and Esma Berikishvili. Tbilisi: Ilia State University Press, 2014.
Lotman, Yuri M. Universe of the Mind [in Georgian]. Edited by Tsira Barbakadze, Tamar Berekashvili, Gia Jokhadze, and Tamar Lomidze. Translated by Ana Makashvili. Tbilisi: Ilia State University Press, 2012.
Makashvili, Ana. “This Happened before Rock n’ Roll” [in Georgian]. In Georgian 12, edited by Tamaz Vasadze, Nugzar Muzashvili, and Nikoloz Chubinidze, 29–30. Tbilisi: Diogene, 2008.
An extensive list of publications
Javakhishvili, Nino, Ana Makashvili, Natia Kochlashvili, and Johann Schneider. “How Far Is Europe from the Caucasus? National Images of Europe in the Minds of Georgian Students.” Caucasus Social Science Review 4 (2018). http://openjournals.gela.org.ge/index.php/CSSR/article/view/2519 (accessed March 15, 2019).
Makashvili, Ana, Irina Vardanashvili, and Nino Javakhishvili. “Testing Intergroup Threat Theory: Realistic and Symbolic Threats, Religiosity and Gender as Predictors of Prejudice.” Europe’s Journal of Psychology 14, no. 3 (2018): 464–484. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v14i2.1483.
Vardanashvili, Irina, Ana Makashvili, Nino Javakhishvili, and Nino Butsashvili. “Developing Georgian-language Prejudice Measure” [in Georgian]. GESJ: Education, Science and Psychology 45, no. 3 (2017): 86–99.
Javakhishvili, Nino, Natia Kochlashvili, Ana Makashvili, and Johann Schneider. “Measuring Ethnic Attitudes: Tolerance and Social Distance from Cross-Cultural Perspective.” In An Anthology of Social Themes, edited by Gregory T. Papanikos, 193–205. Athens: ATINER, 2016.
Javakhishvili, Nino, Nino Skhirtladze, Nino Butsashvili, Maka Lortkipanidze, Ana Makashvili, Irina Vardanashvili, and Ia Shekriladze. “Validating Research Instruments” [in Georgian]. In Conference Proceedings Dedicated to 130th Anniversary of Dimitri Uznadze, edited by Nino Javakhishvili, Irakli Kavtaradze, and Nino Butsashvili, 85–104. Tbilisi: Ilia State University Press, 2016.
Javakhishvili, Nino, Johann F. Schneider, Ana Makashvili, and Natia Kochlashvili. “Ethnic Social Distance: A Comparison of Georgian, German and Japanese Students.” Journal of Social Management 10, no. 2 (2012): 55–64.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Social Animal: Why We Dislike Others and How We Fall Under Influence; Introduction to Statistics for Psychology; Principles of Psychology Statistics for Psychologists; Theories in the Study of Prejudice |
2018–2019 Autumn Semester & 2017–2018 Autumn Semester:
2017–2018 Spring Semester:
2017–2018 Spring Semester, 2016–2017 Spring Semester & 2016–2017 Autumn Semester:
2017–2018 Autumn Semester:
2016–2017 Spring Semester:
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