Aurora Liiceanu

Aurora Liiceanu Dr. Aurora Liiceanu is a Senior researcher in the Institute of Psychology from Romanian Academy and she is working as psychologist in the National Institute of Criminology. She graduated the Faculty of Psychology (University of Bucharest), followed by a Predoctoral Fellowship in Social Psychology (National Academy of Sciences -Washington DC) and a PhD in Psychology, in 1975 (University of Bucharest). She is a member of Association of Romanian Psychologists (ARP) and European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP). Dr. Liiceanu is also founding and advisory board member of Academic Society from Romania (SAR), founding member of Romanian Society of Cultural Psychology and member of The New York Academy of Sciences. At present, she is Co-director in a PhD Program for Romanian Candidates, Laval University, Canada and professor at the National School of Political Sciences and Adminstration, MA courses, Bucharest. From 2002 she was involved as national correspondent for Council of Europe in the integrated project: Responses to everyday violence in a democratic society. She worked as a national researcher in 7 European crosscultural teams (adolescence, conception of citizenship, women issues). Quatations 

Real natural women hardly exist.

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Women and men relates different both from success and failure (I could say talking about success and about failure,according to our society,who uses a word with spatial sonority when it comes to a relationship) .So people when they impersonate in succes or failure terms a performance – it doesn’t matter which- they are either objective ( they put the cause in front of them,it’s not up to them) ,either subjectiv,so it’s up to them.The first ones are called “externalists” ,the others are called “internalists”

Aurora Liiceanu about the concept of downshifting “Money does not bring happiness, nor their number” “We are living in a crazy rhythm ,too involved in our jobs,that we have chosen ,and in a continuous rush after money.The speed with which everything is moving around us,brings us apart from the easy things ,which makes our lives beautiful.A

first reaction at this lifestyle comes from the occident,where the society presses the brake pedal and says STOP to this lifestyle. Downsifting or the reduction of the motors’ speed , the occurrence which wins more and more followers in the developed countries, has appeared after some people refused to become the slave of work and of their material needs and after they were tired of wasting their existence chasing after money or after a job. An easy living, unsophisticated ,which pays more attention to spiritual development ,health and spending freetime with their family or with their friends. A trend which doesn’t feel far in Romania ,a country where the deposit and the career makes sense for the lives of the most of the people”

Her experience includes: • • • • • • • • • •

Communication and social skills, Training for Union Trade Leaders Special Program for Medical Professionals:Information, Education, and Communication Module, USAID Fund for Romania Feminism in Romania, PHARE Special Program for Women Leaders: Gender and Development Special Program for Health Professionals : Communication techniques, USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and PROFIT Project for Romania Parliamentary School, SAR Program of Political Education, Consultant and trainer Training for interdisciplinary teams dealing with violence and drug users Cross-cultural study on loss and conflict in women (American vs Romanian women) Consultant for UNFPA on the project on Domestic Violence Romanian investigator of an European research team, "Nationalism , Ethnic Conflict and the Definition of Citizenship and Democracy in Eastern and Western European Countries".

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