European Journal of Psychological Studies

80-84

Authors: Garnik V. Akopov

Social and historical processes in modern Russia determines the high relevance of the scientific and methodical study of the phenomena of contemplation (global – dynamic and social – personal balance (imbalance)). Concept of "contemplation" is studied in the system of modern psychology categories. Actualization of problems in contemplation complements the new scientific understanding of the well-known opposition “conscious-unconscious”. Contemplation as a term of Philosophy can be compared to a relevant psychic phenomena which potentially can be a process, condition or properties of a subject (individual, personality, individuality). Further comparison of psychological (intentional) contemplation notion with the basic mental processes (attention, memory, perception, sensation, affect, thought, imagination, action, etc.), mental health (including special) states and the properties of the individual personality, individuality. Contemplation as the mental phenomenon considerably supplements the phenomenon of activity and expands the range of individual and psychological characteristics of personality. Comparing contemplation to the phenomena of the altered state of consciousness: meditation conditions, mystical conditions and other.

93-101

Authors: Sergey F. Sergeev

The article deals with the coevolution of technogenic environment, man and human society. We explain the new informational technologies impact on individuals, on society and show new technobiotics era of human civilization evolution.

110-116

Authors: Feliks P. Tarasenko

Some peculiarities of a group decision making are discussed. Certain undesirable but unavoidable features are inherent to all voting procedures, i. e. to the elections.

36-46

Authors: Emma I. Meshcheryakova, Aleksei V. Bocharov, Anastasiya V. Larionova

The aim of the article is to show the possibilities of the use of multivariate statistical methods in the typology of extremist attitudes on the basis of questioning prisoners. Comprehensive anthropological approach to understanding the essence of extremist behavior will develop a typology of contemporary forms of extremist behavior of young people using the heuristic potential of diagnostics instruments. The article shows the practical necessity of multivariate methods in an environment where simpler methods (eg, analysis of contingency) does not give statistically significant results and does not allow a sufficiently strong assumptions about the connections. This applies to small sample examined by the large number of attributes with non-uniform structure of values of these attributes.

56-66

Authors: Omomia O. Austin, Omomia Taiwo

Deviant behaviour is seen as any behaviour that violates the norms of a society and attracts a negative formal or informal sanction. The deviants share a variety of behaviour that run afoul of the demands and desires of the society to which they belong. Their activities are generally contrary to the norms of the society to which they belong. This includes pick-pocketing, robbery, arson of different kinds, harassment of law abiding citizens and so on. If their activities are not checked, they portend great danger to the law abiding citizens in the society. The paper employed both historical and sociological methods of investigation. Therefore, it examined deviant behaviours among adolescents and the role played by religion in addressing the challenge. It further examined the role played by both right parenting and checking substance abuse in ameliorating deviant activities. It is recommended that religious education be included in the primary, post primary and tertiary education curricular. The school, family and church should organize different activities to engage the adolescents. They should see themselves as stakeholders in the attempt to ameliorating the challenge of deviants.

71-76

Authors: Victor A. Svetlov

In the article necessary assumptions, axioms and theorems of an universal model of conflict - mathematical apparatus of an unified theory of conflict are established and partly explained. Conflict is formalized in the form of a loop of negative feedback which depending on the size of coefficient of feedback can possess both linear and nonlinear dynamics. In the first case attractors have constant or oscillating character. In the second case the system strives for chaos and self-damage. In general need of axiomatization is caused by absence in modern scientific literature of correct definition of the conflict and, as a result, the correct understanding of its structure, functions and dynamics. Main advantage consists in that that offered axiomatization of conflict opens a way to combination of the unified theory of the conflict being developed by the author of this article with the mathematical theory of catastrophes and the complexity theory.

4-6

Authors: Ia Chakiashvili

The article presents the study of changing sex-role stereotypes within the current social-economic context of today’s Georgia. It is shown that traditional sex-role stereotypes are still kept on a declaration level but on the deeper level the process of their destruction already begins: Woman, as well as men, perceive each other and themselves as helpless and disoriented, unable to get over their problems they are faced with or find the way out of crisis.

12-17

Authors: Olga V. Natolochnaya, Aleksandr A. Cherkasov

The article gives a brief review of a special psycho-emotional state – panic attack, considers pathogenesis, symptoms of the disease, cites examples from psychological practice.

23-32

Authors: Aleksei N. Stepanishchev

In order to organize the mediation procedure, find the optimal decision of the problem of two conflicting parties, it is necessary to imagine all the participants in the form of dynamic system, focused on the determination of the possible ways of relations progress. This article presents the review of the existing methods of systems modeling and the dynamics of their progress, as well as the analysis of the applicability of these methods for mediation procedure and the settlement of the conflict situation, involving two participants. The system models are presented in terms of its activity, interaction of the system with the external factors, is presented. The flexibility of the approach for the systems in different disciplines is described. The criterion of the model efficiency estimation is chosen. Different variants of conflict participants’ behavior, their interaction with each other and with a matter of a dispute are considered. Petri nets, graph-dynamic modeling and signed graph, design of finite tree of possible flow are used as modeling techniques. The role of mediator in the process is shown.