Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, Moscow: Russian Psychological Society, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2009, 640 p.

Introduction

• Introduction

  Zinchenko, Yu. P. ; Petrenko, V.F.

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  Zinchenko Yu.P., Petrenko V.F. (2009). Introduction. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 6-8

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  • This volume contains articles of Russian psychologists and is dedicated to the 11th European Congress of Psychology, which is held in July 2009, in Oslo, Norway. The main purpose of this edition is to introduce Russian contemporary psychology to international psychological community. The team of contributors occurred to be rather accidental. Most of them are psychologists who decided to participate in the Congress in Oslo and received travel grants from one of the national academic foundations: the Russian Foundation of Basic Research and the Russian Foundation for Humanities. A wish to participate in the European Congress, the financial support of the academic foundations and a manuscript in English, – these were the conditions of membership in this project. Such an occasional cast has both positive and negative aspects.

    Keywords: Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 2009, history of psychology

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Theory, History, and Methodology of Psychology

• The Difficult Way of Social Psychology in Russia

  Andreeva, G.M.

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  Andreeva G.M. (2009). The Difficult Way of Social Psychology in Russia. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 11-24

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  • The article describes the main stages and directions of the development of social psychology in USSR and Russia. The comparison of theoretical approaches of Russian and Western social psychology is carried out. Special emphasis is made on the problem of social cognition and coping, which are important in the conditions of changing reality. New professional tasks of social psychology are discussed. The necessity of finding a new paradigm in social psychological investigations in conditions of cardinal transformations and ambiguity is stated as well as vectors and tendencies of its elaboration.

    Keywords: social psychology in USSR, social psychology in Russia, theoretical and methodological background, social changes, new paradigm.

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• Les Aspects Methodologiques des Rapports entre Concepts du Signe et du Symbole dans la Theorie Historico-Culturelle de L.S. Vygotski

  Zinchenko, Yu. P.

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  Zinchenko Yu.P. (2009). Les Aspects Methodologiques des Rapports entre Concepts du Signe et du Symbole dans la Theorie Historico-Culturelle de L.S. Vygotski. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 25-34

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  • Dans le texte, il s’agit de sources de la compréhension des concepts du signe et du symbole dans la théorie historico-culturelle ainsi que de leur rôle dans le développement de l’enfant et dans le processus de la médiation. On y parle aussi de limites de l’approche historico-culturelle en ce qui concerne la compréhension du signe et du symbole et d’autres concepts liés avec eux.

    Keywords: Vygotski, théorie historico-culturelle, signe, symbole, signification, instrument, médiation.

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• Quantitative Estimate of the Macropsychological State of Modern Russian Society

  Yurevich, Andrey V.; Ushakov, Dmitry V.

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  Yurevich A. V., Ushakov D. V. (2009). Quantitative Estimate of the Macropsychological State of Modern Russian Society. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 35-56

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  • The authors give the quantitative estimation of the macropsychological state of modern Russian society based on its political, social and economic characteristics. For these purposes the composite index of the macropsychological state of society is developed. It combines two secondary indexes such as a societal psychological stability index and a societal socio-psychological well-being index.

    Keywords: economic determinism, macropsychology, psychological state of society, composite index, social well-being, social optimism, reforms.

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• Personality and Self-regulation as Determinants of Rational Decision Making in a Political Voting Situation

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  Indina T.A., Morosanova V.I. (2009). Personality and Self-regulation as Determinants of Rational Decision Making in a Political Voting Situation. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 57-71

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  • The association of self-regulation and personality factors with rational decision making was investigated using an experimental model of political voting. The results revealed different sets of personality characteristics for rational and emotional voters. A self-regulation/personality typology of decision making was then constructed, and traits representing self-regulation, cognition, and personality were examined as predispositions toward rational decision making. As a result, specific connections among these variables were uncovered, through which the primary role of the conscious self-regulation system in the management of rational decision making in a political voting context was established.

    Keywords: decision making, choice, rationality, emotionality, self-regulation, personality traits, psychological determinants, typology.

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• On the Mechanisms of Moral Development in Evolutionary Historical Psychology

  Nazaretyan, A.P.

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  Nazaretyan A.P. (2009). On the Mechanisms of Moral Development in Evolutionary Historical Psychology. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 72-100

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  • Rough calculations demonstrate that while demographic densities and the technical capacity for mutual destruction have increased throughout the millennia, the violent death rate – the average number of deliberate killings per capita per time unit – has been decreasing. The resulting downward trend appears highly nonlinear and mediated by man-made crises and catastrophes, but still, in the long term, consecutive. Meanwhile, there is no direct evidence of falling aggressiveness of the humans in the course of history – natural aggressive impulses were rather growing up with population concentration. Obviously, some perfecting cultural and psychological mechanisms of aggression-retention have compensated for technological and demographic growth. This issue is explored using the pattern of techno-humanitarian balance.

    Keywords: Aggression, violence, non-violence, self-organization, technological might, mental regulation, Bloodshed Ratio, techno-humanitarian balance, internal sustainability, external sustainability, anthropogenic crisis, Homo praecrisimos syndrome, psychological fitting, phylogenesis, historical| development, cultural revolutions.

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• From We-Media to I-Media: Identity Transformations in the Virtual World

  Asmolov, G.A.; Asmolov, Aleksandr G.

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  Asmolov A.G., Asmolov G.A. (2009). From We-Media to I-Media: Identity Transformations in the Virtual World. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 101-123

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  • The blogs as the platform for a virtual personality construction are considered in the article on the assumption of the positions of Lev S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical approach. Internet journalism practices are considered as the example for the processes of virtual “I” formation. The authors affirm that the appearance of consecutive and stable “I-representation” in Internet is the necessary condition for a change in dynamics of social nets development from motives which are out of Internet in physical space towards situation when a virtual personality is enough full-fledged to be a motive for new social interactions creation not leaving Internet. As a result a virtual personality turns into a net-creating factor and Internet loses its unoriginality in relation to physical space. Using Lev Vygotsky’s “internal speech” concept, the article suggests to consider this interaction as a dairy discourse – “A dialog of internal voices”, which turns a virtual personality from the product of self representation into the product of social interaction. The authors affirm that the ability to construct a virtual personality is the integral part for personality formation in the new information society and propose to regard journalism practices as one of the methods of effective self representation in Internet.

    Keywords: virtual personality, cultural-historical psychology, blogs, Internet journalism, social nets, social media.

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• The Role of Consciousness in Human Cognitive Activity

  Allakhverdov, V.M.

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  Allakhverdov V.M. (2009). The Role of Consciousness in Human Cognitive Activity. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 124-140

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  • The problem of consciousness is examined in the article. It is argued that all the existing approaches to consciousness do not explain the role consciousness plays in human life. An attempt of revealing and describing the principles of the mind’s work is made. Experimental phenomena observed by the author and his followers, particularly, the tendency of previously non-realized ideas not to be realized subsequently, are reviewed. The discussion of these phenomena allows to formulate a novel view on the nature of consciousness.

    Keywords: consciousness, cognition, awareness, adequacy, emotions.

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• Emotion and Consciousness: Ends of a Continuum

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  Alexandrov Yu.l., Sams M.E. (2009). Emotion and Consciousness: Ends of a Continuum. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 141-186

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  • We suggest a united concept of consciousness and emotion, based on the systemic cognitive neuroscience perspective regarding organisms as active and goaldirected. We criticize the idea that consciousness and emotion are psychological phenomena having quite different neurophysiological mechanisms. We argue that both characterize a unified systemic organization of behavior, but at different levels. All systems act to achieve intended behavioral results in interaction with their environment. Differentiation of this interaction increases during individual development. Any behavioral act is a simultaneous realization of systems ranking from the least to the most differentiated. We argue that consciousness and emotion are dynamic systemic characteristics that are prominent at the most and least differentiated systemic levels, correspondingly. These levels are created during development. Our theory is based on both theoretical and empirical research and provides a solid framework for experimental work.

    Keywords: cognition, brain, learning, development, neuron, system.

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• On Scientific Status and Practical Significance of One Psychological Theory

  Podolskiy, A.I.

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  Podolskiy A.I. (2009). On Scientific Status and Practical Significance of One Psychological Theory. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 187-209

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  • Since the late 1950s, a significant number of authors tried to use Galperin’s approach (which is well-known as the “Theory of planned stage-by-stage formation of mental actions”, or the PSFMA Theory) to improve schooling processes and results. Looking back at the more than fifty‑year history of Galperin’s approach, one may note that the 1960s and the early 1970s were the periods of the great optimism concerning effectiveness and efficiency of its practical application. It seemed possible to transform radically the way and the traditional results of learning/teaching process. To compare the 60s-70s and the 80s-90s publications one could easily discover a significant decrease of a wave of optimism concerning the PSFMA’s application. Besides the obvious social‑economic and social‑psychological reasons there exists a methodological reason concerning the ways and means of the Galperin’s approach use. Historically, the substantial pedagogical results of planned stage‑by‑stage formation of mental actions first came to the fore. However, the proponents’ enthusiasm about really unusual and hopeful results had a reverse side: it led to the serious misunderstanding of the status of Galperin’s approach and transformed the last to some absolute knowledge like a sort of “philosophers’ stone”. The successful application of the statements of PSFMA does not mean a literal reproduction of some abstract general procedure, but a creative design of a system of necessary and sufficient psychological conditions adapted to a concrete schooling situation. The elaboration of such a procedure occupies an intermediate position between the fundamental psychological knowledge and the real process of schooling. The three-model system is considered to bridge a gap between the fundamental knowledge introduced by Galperin and the real circumstances of learning/teaching situation.

    Keywords: internalization, stage-by-stage formation of mental actions, human action properties, psychological, psychological‑pedagogical, and technological models of the instruction situation, formation of attentiveness.

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• Innovative Potential of Personality: Systemic Anthropological Context

  Klochko, V.Y.; Galazhinskiy, Eduard V.

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  Klochko V. Y., Galazhinsky E. V. (2009). Innovative Potential of Personality: Systemic Anthropological Context. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 210-224

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  • Conceptual grounds of the system anthropological psychology, that allow to represent the innovative potential of a personality in the context of understanding the mechanisms of self-development of a person as an open self-organizing system, are discussed in the article.

    Keywords: innovative potential of a personality, innovative behaviour, system anthropological psychology.

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• "Great Ideas" in Russian Psychology: Personality Impact on Psychophysiological Functions and Causal Approach to Self-determination

  Mironenko, I.A.

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  Mironenko I.A. (2009). "Great Ideas" in Russian Psychology: Personality Impact on Psychophysiological Functions and Causal Approach to Self-determination. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 225-238

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  • Russian psychology has brought into the world science at least two great ideas: the conditioned reflex (Pavlov) and the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky). These concepts were formulated before “iron curtain” fell. Since then Russian science dropped out from the view of western colleagues for decades. Now it is challenged to re-join international mainstream. Are we in a position to contribute? A key concept for Russian psychology is personality impact on psycho-physiological functions and causal approach to self-determination. The concept of selfdetermination appeared in Western theories in 1980-es and since then it has been developed in the context of teleological humanitarian approach. In Russian science the concept of self-determination dates back to 1934, when it was defined by Rubinstein as “sub’ekt”. Self-determination of ontogenesis of psychophysiological functions resulting from confluence of ontogenesis and social development was explicated by Russian scientists whose theoretical reasoning and empirical results are compared to Western counterparts.

    Keywords: self-determinatio; causal and teleological approaches; personality impact on psycho physiological processes; psychology in Russia.

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• Integrative Psychology: the Return to the Subject of Psychology

  Kozlov, V.V.

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  Kozlov V.V. (2009). Integrative Psychology: the Return to the Subject of Psychology. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 239-261

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  • The article analyzes the basic paradigms of psychology and put forward the thesis of the expansion of the subject area of psychology in the course of historical development, and describes the main features of integrative psychology. Highlighted in the article the new paradigm of psychology (transpersonal, communicative, integrative), make it possible to trace a vector of development of modern psychology as a multidimensional communicative environment that has intention to make a perusal of psychic reality.

    Keywords: physiological, psychoanalytical, behavioral and existential-humanistic, transpersonal, communicative, integrative paradigm of psychology, subject of psychology.

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• Relativist Psychology: a New Concept of Psychological Measurement

  Suprun, A.P.

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  Suprun A.P. (2009). Relativist Psychology: a New Concept of Psychological Measurement. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 262-288

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  • The article demonstrates the inadequacy in the traditional approach of psychology to the description of products of mental representation of perception. The principles of objective representation of subjective experience (principles of “mental map” construction) contain a whole range of contradictions. We propose a consistent mathematical description of the “mental map” based on psychosemiotic principles. Instead of the classical space of characteristics/properties we introduce semantic space that opens the way to a truly adequate representation of psychic reality. The article discusses metrics of the mental map, as well as substantiates the possibility of applying conservation laws to psychology. It is shown that it is possible to reach an adequate representation of research object in the humanities, equivalent to that of natural sciences in terms of accuracy. To verify a new approach, we make use of our theoretical deductions in the explanation of experimental data widely known in psychophysics and inconsistent with Stevens law.

    Keywords: relativist psychology, mental representation, mental map, psychosemiotic, semantic space, psychophysic.

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• From Reflectory Ring to Multivariable System

  Nazarov, А.I.

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  Nazarov A.I. (2009). From Reflectory Ring to Multivariable System. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 289-306

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  • Some special features of feedback functioning in live movement control are discussed. Taking into account the multicoupling nerve structure of movement apparatus we inevitable are faced with a question about principles based in clousing of chanals’ central endings ensemble, which afferentiates movement, on effector centres ensemble which controls muscle periphery. When we speak about movement skill development such afferent-efferent connections (reciphering, as N.A.Bernstein named them) which would be adequate to perform given motor task do not exist in advance and they must to be developed during performing that task. The main role here play human perception of the information resulted from movement performance on the level of motor-sensory transition, when multidimensional vector of muscle dynamics transforms into dynamics of outer object environment. On the basis of selection of perseptual data new feedback structure is created which ensures steady functioning of the effectory patterns finded durng practice.

    Keywords: reflectory ring, feedback, multicoupling (multilink), motor skill.

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Problems of Education, Development, and Clinical Practice

• Academic Achievement in College: the Predictive Value of Subjective Evaluations of Intelligence and Academic Self-concept

  Kornilova, T.V.

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  Kornilova T.V. (2009). Academic Achievement in College: the Predictive Value of Subjective Evaluations of Intelligence and Academic Self-concept. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 309-326

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  • The study examined the relationship between self-, peer- and test-estimated intelligence, academic self-concept and academic achievement. Subjective evaluations of intelligence and academic self-concept had incremental predictive value over conventional intelligence when predicting achievement accounting for more than 40% of its variance. The obtained pattern of results is presented via SEM-model which accounts for 75% variance in the latent factor of academic achievement. Author suggests the importance of further studying complex sets of achievement predictors from ability, personality and mediating domains.

    Keywords: subjective evaluations, intelligence, self-estimated intelligence, academic self-concept, academic achievement

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• Revolution in the Cognitive Psychology of Development

  Sergienko, Elena A.

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  Sergienko E.A. (2009). Revolution in the Cognitive Psychology of Development. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 327-343

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  • The recent revolutionary changes in the cognitive psychology of development, touching upon the basic conceptions of psychology, are generalized in this article. The problem of theoretical changes connected with systemic evolutionary approach, dynamic nonlinear system theory, and connectionism, is discussed. The author analyses four basic theses of revolutionary changes: from sensory-motor infant to representative one; from the leading role of activity to the unity of perception and action; about the continuity of the subject formation, instead of axiom of subjectivity of the adult, mature person; about the continuance of genetic and environmental instead of social primacy in the mental development of a person. There are key arguments of new conceptions, obtained by the author and other researchers.

    Keywords: revolutionary changes, cognitive development, early ontogenesis, representative infant, perception and action, ontogenesis of subjectivity, theory of mind, theories of mental formation.

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• 'Trojan Horse" Teaching

  Poddiakov, A.N.

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  Poddiakov A.N. (2009). 'Trojan Horse" Teaching. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 344-360

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  • An advanced strategic behavior, which we term, “Trojan horse” teaching (THT), is described. In this type of counteractive behavior, a “teacher”, ostensibly helping his or her rival to learn something, really teaches the rival useless or disadvantageous things. This interaction is an object of interdisciplinary research related to the theory of human capital, the theory of agency, knowledge management, the theory of conflict, and to social and educational psychology. Examples of THT in real life, and results of experiential studies, including the administration of a survey concerning people’s beliefs about teaching “with evil intent”, and a set of experiments with participation of adults and children, have been described. Possible directions of artificial intelligence systems development related to THT are described. General relations between: (a) counteraction to learning, and (b) development in spite of the counteraction are discussed.

    Keywords: teaching, learning, competition, conflict, deceiving, Trojan horse teaching.

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• Genetic and Environmental Influences on Temperament in Adolescence

  Malykh, S. B.; Gindina, E.D.

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  Malykh S.B., Gindina E.D., Nadyseva V.V. (2009). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Temperament in Adolescence. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 361-384

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  • This study, which is a part of a Moscow longitudinal twin project, aims to explore genetic and environmental contributions to inter-individual variability of temperamental traits in adolescence on the basis of a Russian sample. 85 monozygotic (MZ) and 64 same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs aged 12 – 14 years completed the children version of Rusalov Structure of Temperament Questionnaire (C-STQ). The results of model-fitting analyses indicate considerable hereditary determination of individual differences in 3 out of the 8 C-STQ dimensions - social tempo, objectrelated emotional sensitivity, and social emotional sensitivity. Non-shared environmental effects explained the rest of the total variance in these dimensions. Individual differences in the other STQ dimensions were due to environmental factors.

    Keywords: monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins, adolescents, individual differences, temperament, genotype, environment.

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• Child's Attachment to Mother as the Basis of Mental Development Typology

  Burmenskaya, G.V.

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  Burmenskaya G.V. (2009). Child's Attachment to Mother as the Basis of Mental Development Typology. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 385-403

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  • The article shows the role of the attachment system (child-mother interactions) in development of a wide spectrum of individual personality characteristics. Emotional attachment of the child to mother is considered as a complicated system of internal regulation and a basis of typology of mental development. Results of a series of empirical studies show the connection between the type of attachment, formed at the early stages of child development, and characteristics of his/her autonomy, consciousness (self-concept and self-esteem) and empathy in preschool and middle childhood.

    Keywords: attachment, typology of mental development, autonomy, self-concept, self-esteem, empathy, preschool and middle childhood.

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• Autism as a Model of Abnormal Emotional Development

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  Lebedinsky V.V (2009). Autism as a Model of Abnormal Emotional Development. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 404-412

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  • The theoretical model of the establishment of the syndrome of early infantile autism is elaborated including all the stages of this establishment. According to Vygotsky and his ideas about the hierarchical organization of pathological syndromes, there is the definition of the difference between the structure and the function of the primary (biological) and secondary (sociological) phenomena of the syndrome of early infantile autism.

    Keywords: autistic syndrome, autistic syndrome model, affective disorders.

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• Reconstructin of Inner Dialogue in the Psychotherapeutic Process (A Case Study)

  Sokolova, E.T.; Burlakova, N.S.

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  Sokolova E.T. Burlakova N.S. (2009). Reconstructin of Inner Dialogue in the Psychotherapeutic Process (A Case Study). Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 413-440

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  • Basing on Vygotsky’s cultural-historical methodology, Bakhtin’s conception of inner dialogue, and some ideas of object relations theory, the authors propose an integrative approach to self-awareness in psychotherapy. Serious attention is paid to the predictors of borderline personality disorders and comorbid illnesses: pathogenic family conditions of personality development and, in consequence of them, splitting and structural distortions of self-awareness. The descriptive-analytic, semiotic and dialogical procedures of analysis of verbal communications between patient and psychotherapist were elaborated and approbated.

    Keywords: case study, inner dialogue, transference-countertransference, dynamics of Self-Other representations, borderline personality structure.

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• Clinical Psychology of Corporeality: Principles of Cultural-Historical Subject Analysis

  Nikolaeva, V.V.; Arina, G.A.

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  Nikolaeva V.V., Arina G.A. (2009). Clinical Psychology of Corporeality: Principles of Cultural-Historical Subject Analysis. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 441-456

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  • The psychology of corporeality is a new and intensively elaborated branch of science. The theoretical foundations of its subject differ significantly from those of medical psychosomatics. In a given article some new concepts of this approaching discipline are introduced and the role of symbolic mediation in genesis of different psychosomatic diseases is discussed.

    Keywords: Nikolaeva V.V., Arina G.A. (2009). Clinical Psychology of Corporeality: Principles of Cultural-Historical Subject Analysis.

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Applied Psychological Research

• Mass media as an Effective Tool for Prevention of Socio-psychological Factors in the Development of Terrorism

  Zinchenko, Yu. P.

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  Zinchenko Yu. P. (2009). Mass media as an Effective Tool for Prevention of Socio-psychological Factors in the Development of Terrorism. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 459-476

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  • Recently mass media play crucial role in social counterterrorism activity. The article is devoted to analysis of possibilities of mass media in prevention of the development of terrorism. Socio-psychological factors of development of terrorism, including concept of “contributing events” as well as hypothesis “frustration-aggression” are studied. The psychological component of terrorism in three major attitudes is considered in the article: psychology of terrorism, psychology of counteraction to terrorism, and using mass media for prevention the development of terrorism. Specific features and the external factors promoting involving into terrorism are analysed. Role of mass media in covering the information about terrorism events is analysed from point of view related to prevention of development of terrorism. Some key recommendations on counterterrorism activity using mass media means are formulated.

    Keywords: psychology of terrorism, prevention of terrorism, socio-psychological factors of terrorism, psychology of mass media.

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• Needs of Terrorist

  Tkhostov, A.Sh.; Surnov, K.G.

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  Tkhostov A.Sh., Surnov K.G. (2009). Needs of Terrorist. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 477-491

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  • This article reveals the motives of the terrorist activity. It analyzes psychological mechanisms of basic human needs that are implemented at different stages of involvement in terrorist organizations. The authors also discuss the causes of psychological attractiveness / desirability of terrorism in the context of influence of modern technologies on the dynamics of norm and pathology standards.

    Keywords: psychology of terrorism, modern technologies, culture and pathology, personal psychology, motivation, basic needs.

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• Psychosemantic Approach to Art (on a Material of Cinema)

  Petrenko, V.F.; Sapsoleva, O.N.

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  Petrenko V.F., Sapsoleva O.N. (2009). Psychosemantic Approach to Art (on a Material of Cinema). Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 492-516

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  • This article discusses an application of psychosemantic methods for the analysis of viewer understanding. As an example, the movie “Sibirskiy Tsiryulnik” (“The Barber of Siberia”, directed by a famous politician N. M ikhalkov) is taken, where Russian and American mentalities are juxtaposed. Basing on the works by M. Bakhtin and G. Kelly the concept of “art construct” is introduced. For the construction of semantic spaces of film perception the method of attribution of motives to film characters’ deeds was elaborated and used with the G. Kelly’s triadic method, followed by factor analysis.

    Keywords: Art psychology, psychosemantics, film perception, personal and art constructs, understanding, deed, semantic space, factor analysis.

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• The Concept of Human Functional State in Russian Applied Psychology

  Leonova, A.B.

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  Leonova A.B. (2009). The Concept of Human Functional State in Russian Applied Psychology. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 517-538

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  • The concept of human functional states (HFS) is considered in the framework of activity regulation approach developed in Russian applied psychology. Aimed at the analysis of changes in regulatory mechanisms of on-going activity, structural methods for multilevel assessment of workers’ states are discussed. Three different strategies of data integration are proposed regarding the types of essential practical problems. Their usability is exemplified with the help of two empirical studies concerned with reliability of fire-fighters’ work in the Chernobyl Zone and effects of interruptions in computerized office environment. A general framework for applied HFS research is proposed in order to develop new ecologically valid psychodiagnostic procedures that can help to create efficient stress-management programs for enhancing human reliability and performance in complex job environment.

    Keywords: activity regulation, job analysis, microstructure of cognitive processes, human functional state, workability, fatigue, mental effort, stress, interruption effects, computerized work

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• Primary and Secondary Appraisals in Measuring Resilience to Stress

  Velichkovsky, B.B.

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  Velichkovsky B.B. (2009). Primary and Secondary Appraisals in Measuring Resilience to Stress. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 539-563

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  • Measuring resilience to stress (or stress resistance) validly and reliably is an important theoretical and practical problem. Process-oriented stress theories assume that primary and secondary appraisals play an important role in determining the level of resilience. In the present study, a model of resilience based on the analysis of the interplay between primary and secondary appraisal processes is developed. Resilience is high if benign primary appraisals of taxing situations are accompanied by secondary appraisals of coping resources as being sufficient for controlling stressors. In an implementation of the model, the quality of primary appraisals is assessed through the assessment of anxiety, anger and depression, which characterize the most typical cognitive-emotional reactions to demanding situations. The assessment of secondary appraisals is restricted to the analysis of psychophysiological (functional) resources, which are involved in all forms of coping activities. The implementation of the model gives rise to a measure of resilience, which is shown to successfully predict the outcome of the stress process in a sample of Russian police officers.

    Keywords: resilience, stress process, situation appraisal, psychophysiological resources, assessment, validity.

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• Web Plagiarism: Empirical Study

  Voiskounsky, A.E.

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  Voiskounsky A.E. (2009). Web Plagiarism: Empirical Study. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 564-584

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  • A questionnaire measuring web plagiarism (or academic cheating), worked out by Underwood and Szabo (2003) has been adapted and applied to the population of undergraduate science students in Russia. The students at four technical universities are questioned (N=292). The study shows the students perform webplagiarizing, i.e. take materials from the Internet and hand these materials in as their own assignments. Russian students are reportedly competent in the use of the Internet; they report to have rather few moral barriers towards plagiarizing; they believe most of their mates do the same; they are not sure their tutors are able and willing to recognize cheating; finally, they are competent enough in English and are hypothetically able to plagiarize in two languages.

    Keywords: plagiarism, cyberethics, moral development, science students, gender, academic year

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• Motivation of Professional Creative Thinking

  Kashapov, M.M.

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  Kashapov M.M., Leybina A. V. (2009). Motivation of Professional Creative Thinking. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 585-602

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  • The aim of this study was to reveal correlation between motivation and creative professional thinking. Four hundred and seventy-one Russians of different trades participated in the study. It was supposed that motivational structure and level of creative professional thinking were interrelated. The connection between motivational components and professional thinking was revealed. Tendencies of transition form situational level of thinking to oversituational one were determined. It was found out that motivational structure of workers with situational thinking was much more consistent than that of workers with oversituational thinking.

    Keywords: creative professional thinking, motivation, values, motivation structure.

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• Cognitive Aspects of Athlete Activity

  Veraksa, A.N.; Leonov, Sergey V.

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  Veraksa A.N., Leonov S. V. (2009). Cognitive Aspects of Athlete Activity. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 603-618

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  • Article is devoted to the issues of symbolic mediation and diagnostic of time perception in sport. Distinction between iconic and symbolic mediation is discussed. Evidences of effective implementation of symbolic mediation in sport are examined. Means of optimization of sportsmen and sportswomen training by the instrumentality of symbol are considered. The results of time perception diagnostic of Russian synchronized swimmers are described. It was shown that sportswomen are greatly varied in accuracy and stability of reproduction of long (2–5 sec) and estimation of short (less than 250 ms) time intervals, which were filled with different contents – ticks of metronome, persistent sound, pressuring the button and etc. The improvement of individual characteristics of time perception is an important psychological resource of sports achievements increase.

    Keywords: sport psychology, symbol, icon, image, situation of uncertainty, synchronized swimming, time perception.

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• The Methodology of Psychological Research of Ecological Consciousness

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  Shmeleva I.A. (2009). The Methodology of Psychological Research of Ecological Consciousness. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 619-636

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  • The paper examines the methodological principles of the psychological study of ecological consciousness as one of the urgent interdisciplinary problems of XX–XXI century, caused by the aggravation of global ecological problems and the need for the realization of the “sustainable development”ideas. Ecological consciousness is considered as multilayered, dynamic, reflexive element of human consciousness, incorporating multivariate, holistic aspects of interaction of the human being as the H.S. and the Humanity representative with the environment and the Planet. The possibility of the more active introduction of Russian psychology in the process is argued for in connection with the existing conceptual approaches, which compose the methodological basis for ecological consciousness research. Among these approaches are considered: the principles of holistic study of the human being by B. Ananyev, the methodology of system psychological description by V. Gansen and G. Sukhodolsky, the idea of reflexivity of consciousness by S. Rubinstein, the humanitarian- ecological imperative of the development of consciousness by V. Zinchenko, the theory of relations by V. Myasishev, consideration of ecological consciousness as relation to nature by S. Deryabo and V. Yasvin, theories of consciousness by V. Petrenko, V. Allakhverdov and other Russian psychologists. The value component of ecological consciousness is distinguished as the most significant. The possibility of applying the Values’ theory of the by S. Schwartz for studying the ecological values is discussed along with the prognostic potential of the universalism value.

    Keywords: Ecological consciousness, sustainable development, holistic study of human being, system psychological description of consciousness, reflection, values, ecological values, universalism

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• The Presidium of the Russian Psychological Society (RPS)

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  The Presidium of the Russian Psychological Society (RPS). Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 2, 637-639

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  • Yury P. Zinchenko – President of the RPS, Doctor of Psychological Science, Professor,
    Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
    (international activity, executive duties, growth policy).
    E-mail: zinchenko@psy.msu.ru.
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    Keywords: RPS, history of psychology

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