28th International Congress of Psychology August 8 ... - U-netSURF

Up-to-now the Russian psychology can not offer the high-quality testing. 2) Using of transparent
and really competitive procedures for governmental posts assignment. The main such procedure -
an open competitive recruitment - is based on the assessment center method. 3) Protection of the
person rights during hiring, evaluation and promotion of governmental personnel. This issue lies
in legislation on governmental management.
2099 Presidential Address
Chair: Qicheng Jing, China
Psychological science in its multidisciplinary environment, Michel Denis, Groupe Cognition
Humane, LIMSI-CNRS, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
One century after its birth, psychology appears to be firmly established as a discipline in the field
of science. It has gained a genuine profile and a clear conceptual and methodological identity. At
the same time, since the past decade or so, it has shown a growing capacity to interact with other
disciplines to investigate human cognition. I will report examples attesting for the unique role of
psychology in collaborative research programs with neurobiology - where psychology provides
models that inspire research aimed at identifying the brain activity underlying mental processes -
and computer science - where it provides concepts that are taken into account in the building of
human-machine interactive devices.
2100 STATE-OF-THE-ART
Chair: Fanny M. Cheung, Hong Kong, China
Violence against women: A global health issue, Nancy F. Russo, Department of Psychology,
Arizona State University, USA
Violence against women is a significant problem for women around the world and has been
identified as a critical health and human rights issue. Culture shapes meanings and consequences
of violence to its victims, such that a full picture of the health-related physical, mental, and social
consequences of such violence requires examining the differential impact of different forms of
violence on women's health in different cultural contexts. This address considers forms and
cultural definitions of violence and provides an overview of the consequences of intimate violence,
across cultural contexts.
2101 STATE-OF-THE-ART
Chair: Yufang Yang, China
Cognitive and neuroscience perspectives on speech and sign processing: Evidence from persons
with deafness, earing impairment, and normal hearing, Jerker Rönnberg, Department of
Behavioral Sciences, Linkoping University, Sweden
Behavioural and neuroscience data from participants with deafness, hearing impairment, and
normal hearing are used to illustrate the cognitive functions that mediate visual, audiovisual, and
visual-tactile speech understanding skills. Working memory capacity - and related individual
cognitive skills - is crucial for speech understanding with impoverished and/or poorly perceived
signals. Experimental manipulations of working memory (e.g. of the phonological loop) also
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