1. Serge Moscovici was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Commander of the Legion of Honour, as well as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
15 Facts About Serge Moscovici
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Serge Moscovici was born in Braila, Romania, to a Jewish family who were grain merchants.
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Serge Moscovici's uncle was Ilie Moscovici, a leading Romanian socialist.
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Serge Moscovici frequently relocated, together with his father, spending time in Cahul, Galati, and Bucharest.
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Serge Moscovici trained as a mechanic at the Bucharest vocational school Ciocanul.
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Subsequently, Serge Moscovici travelled extensively, notably visiting Mandatory Palestine, Germany and Austria.
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At the time, Serge Moscovici became close to Paris-based writers, including the Romanian-born Jewish Paul Celan and Isac Chiva.
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Serge Moscovici studied epistemology and history of sciences with philosopher Alexandre Koyre.
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Serge Moscovici worked initially in the Social Psychology Laboratory, created on rue de la Sorbonne by Daniel Lagache.
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Serge Moscovici then co-founded in 1974 the Laboratoire Europeen de Psychologie Sociale there.
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Serge Moscovici served as a visiting professor at the New School in New York City, at the Rousseau Institute in Geneva, as well as at the Universite catholique de Louvain and at the University of Cambridge.
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Serge Moscovici died in Paris in 2014 at the age of 89.
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Serge Moscovici's research focus was on group psychology and he began his career by investigating the way knowledge is reformulated as groups take hold of it, distorting it from its original form.
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Serge Moscovici researched the dynamics of group decisions and consensus-forming.
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Serge Moscovici developed the theory of social representations which he defined as:.