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Head of the laboratory-- Shikhirev Peter N., PhD
E-mail: ipns@ipras.msk.su
The laboratory works on social-psychological and ethnic problems of interethnic relations.
Interethnic conflicts are analyzed including motivation, conflict mediation and peace
activity. Techniques of intergroup conflict resolution are being developed.
5. LABORATORY OF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Head of the laboratory-- Koltzova Vera A., doctor of psychology
E-mail: postmaster@ipras.msk.su
The laboratory develops methodology of historic-psychological research' studies the
history of Russian psychology and some of its branches (comparative, ethnic and
clinical psychology), started concrete research of psycho-historical nature. The
laboratory has a scientific archive.
6. LABORATORY OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Head of the laboratory-- Lebedev Arthur N., PhD, professor
E-mail: @ipras.msk.su
The main goal of the laboratory is the search for neural codes of the memory, development
of the integrated activity theory and work on new quantitative laws in
psychophysics and cognitive psychology. The work is being done in the directions
of the analysis of electrophysiological indicators of information processes; of the
volume, speed and correctness of perception, of the speed and correctness of
mnemic and visual scanning, of the correctness of individual assessment in the
tasks of multimeasured scaling, the search for new lows in the sphere of
quantitative linguistics.
7. LABORATORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONDITIONS
OF SENSORY
DEFICIENCY
Head of the laboratory-- Sirotkin Sergey A., doctor of philosophy
E-mail: postmaster@ipras.msk.su
The laboratory develops conception of formation and development of personality as of an
active subject on the sensory-limited basis. Directions of the studies are as follows:
comparative analysis of human psychological development under conditions of
sensorial norms and conditions of sensory deficiency; the search for typical ways of
personality formation in the circumstances of different sensory deficiencies
(blindness, deafness, blindness and deafness combined etc)
8. LABORATORY OF SPEECH PSYCHOLOGY AND OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Head of the laboratory-- corresponding member of the Russian Academy of
Education Ushakova Tatiana N.
E-mail: postmaster@ipras.msk.su
The main research direction include the study of natural and social components of the
speech; development of the systemic model of speech communication; modeling of
the communicative structure of the dialogue; the study of the structure and of the
process of argumentation; the speech in situations of conflict; genesis of speech
communication. The laboratory carries on applied research too, such as
optimization of spech communication in different social conditions and diagnostics
of individual specifics of a person as communicator.
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