European Journal of Psychological Studies

4-8

Authors: Nkansah Anakwah, Brenya Wiafe-Akenten, Jacob Owusu Sarfo, Feikoab Parimah

More often than not, people automatically make guilty inferences from physical appearance despite little evidence for their accuracy. This has usually been extended to the criminal justice system. Wrongful convictions have therefore not been uncommon in our society and people who are culpable are sometimes exonerated. Sometimes it is not until innocent persons have finished their sentence or executed before their innocence is known. Research in legal psychology has thus, usually focused on physical characteristics and its impact on trustworthiness, and guilty decisions and severity of sentences. This paper systematically reviewed studies on the influence of physical characteristics on legal decisions so far. In addition, some recommendations have been proposed for further research based on gaps identified from our analysis.

23-30

Authors: Lubov V. Mischenko

The article offers new theoretical and practical approaches to consideration of integrated sex and gender developments of the person. The concept «sex and gender development of integrated individuality » is given. Also, the article states and conceptually interpretes the methodological and theoretical bases for creation of a new interdisciplinary scientific direction in system of psychological knowledge – integrative psychology of sex and gender developments of the person`s individuality. The subject, the basic directions and research problems integrative psychology sex and gender developments of individuality of the person are stated. Specificities of gender structures of individuality of younger schoolchildren in various conditions of activity and depending on various properties of the subject of activity are investigated. It is revealed, that uniqueness of gender structures of integral individuality of teenagers depends on dialectic unity objective and subjective, from an integral parity of the basic tendencies of development of individuality.

37-44

Authors: Victor Ya. Tsvetkov

This article describes the process of information retrieval as cognitological procedure. For information retrieval used auxiliary concepts: information design, information environment, information relations. This article describes the basic concepts of search: concept and pattern. The symbolic modeling as a procedure for constructing patterns is presented. Also, the philosopher cognitive science is given.