All news

Dear colleagues!

We are glad to introduce you an interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with Dr. Prof. Elly Singer from University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Professor Singer studies early childhood education from multiple perspectives. In this interview she is talking about important role of play and playfulness in children's everyday life. Professor Singer describes the main paths of child play research in Netherlands and pays special attention to Vygotsky's ideas about early childhood.

President of the Russian Psychological Society, President of the Russian Academy of Education, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University prof. Yuri Zinchenko and president of the Cyprus Psychological Association, member of the Executive Committee of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations Eleni Karayianni set a perspective of future collaborations in different directions: cooperative research projects and educational programs.

Dear colleagues!

We are happy to announce the agreement signed between the Russian Psychological Society and MDPI on publication of the XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) proceedings. The congress will take place 2-5 July 2019 in Moscow, Russia, and ECP 2019 participants will be able to submit short articles related to presented researches, reviews and case studies to Behavioral Sciences (the journal is indexed by Web of Science).

Faculty of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Psychological Society presented a booth, dedicated to the European Congress of Psychology ECP-2019. The Congress will take place in Moscow, on July 2-5 2019. All visitors of the exhibition could see new design of the journal Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, published by the Faculty of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Psychological Society. More than 500 specialists from 32 countries were guests of the booth.

Dear colleagues!

We are glad to introduce you a short interviewof the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with the most famous psychologist from Africa – Dr. Saths Cooper. Saths Cooper is the president of the Pan-African Psychology Union (PAPU). He has played leadership roles in various community, cultural, educational, political, professional, scientific, student, worker and youth entities in South Africa and abroad. In this interview he is talking about the mission of psychology in the modern world, about most promising areas of psychology, state of psychology research and practice in Africa and also about advances of cultural-historical theory nowadays.

Guest editor: Yulia Kovas

Manuscript submissions deadline extended until September, 15!

Please, submit your manuscripts here http://psychologyinrussia.com/for-authors

Guest editor: Aldert Vrij — is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England.

The special issue of Journal will be devoted to the problems of personality psychology – theoretical bases and approaches to the description and research of personality in the modern reality and its challenges. The journal invites articles on major and innovative issues of psychology of personality. Scholarly reviews, methodological, analytic articles, as well as empirical research presenting new research approaches and data from the studies of personality problems, will be included.

Deadline for submission is November 1st, 2018

Instructions for Authors: http://psychologyinrussia.com/for-authors

IUPsyS Assembly 2018 was held on 30 June 2018 as a part of the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018) held in Montreal, Canada. 90 representatives from different countries attended the Assembly. Besides usual reports on IUPsyS activities related to psychology promotions on various levels including UN and WHO, the issue of psychologist’ consolidated efforts were discussed, and considered professionals in science and practice around the World. Five working groups were formed trying to address this issue from various angles. The results of this exercise will be transformed into action plan to be implemented by IUPsyS within the next two years. In particular, Russian Psychological Society received invitation from recently established Asia Pacific Psychology Alliance to become an affiliated member.

International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018), which was held in Montreal, Canada on 25-30 June 2018, welcomed psychologists from many countries. More than 4000 people attended the Congress. An idea to unite BRICS countries’ psychologists was developed at the beginning of the Congress. Representatives from the five countries organized a meeting to discuss effective collaboration among respective psychological societies.

Guest Editor: Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh is Distingusihed Visiting Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science , Central European University, Budapest. He is a Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. He was the Editor in Chief of Hungarian Review of Psychology (1997-2015) and the President of the Hungarian Philosophical Association (1998-2001). He has been a fellow to Collegium Budapest, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and Collegium de Lyon. In 1991-1992 and in 2004-2005, he was the György Ránki Hungarian Chair at Indiana University. His long-term research interests include history of cognitive science, psycholinguistics, the relationship between language and cognition, and linguistic developmental disorders.

Co-Editor: Boris B. Velichkovsky

Boris B. Velichkovsky is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. He graduated from Berlin Free University (1998) with Master Degree in Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. At focus of his research interests are experimental studies of language, working memory, cognitive control, and bilingualism.

Deadline for submission is October 1^st, 2018

Instructions for Authors: http://psychologyinrussia.com/for-authors