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Abstract: The author analyzed and compared the following psychological terms, - character, personality type and accentuation. He expanded the common definition of character as a “set of social and individual personal traits influencing his behavior” and showed how character and neurotic behavior were connected.

Keywords: psychology, character, trait, accentuation, psychopathy

Abstract: The article describes N. A. Berdyev’s views on the problem of “nationality and humankind”. The author distinguished the two extreme points of view on this matter, nationalism and cosmopolitism. According to the great philosopher, both of them prevent from understanding the problem as it is. The author of the article also paid attention at the formation of the universal culture.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, nation, nationalism, cosmopolitism, humankind, national passions, national ideas, messianism, universalism

Abstract: The article sums up the Theory of Consciousness based on the studies of the mind’s structure and dynamics. The theory evolves around the concept of “reentry”, - recursive transfer of signals through numerous inter-related parts of brain, mostly in the thalamocortical system. The theory is based on fundamental researches by William James and Ramon y Cajal.

Keywords: primary consciousness, high-level consciousness, reentrant connections, perceptive categorization, memory, primary consciousness and high-level consciousness

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Abstract: Catastrophic destruction of the environment, intensive pollution with nuclear and other waste, diminishing of the landscape, unexpected spread of pandemic (worldwide) diseases, - all that creates a crucial situation for the humankind. It certainly gives food for the thought and attempts to understand what is happening. The topic of transformation of the live world is an important anthropological problem nowadays.

Keywords: psychology, philosophical anthropology, human, life, biology, cyborg, conscience, nature, cloning

Abstract: The article is devoted the changes in intellect and psyche which happen in elderly people. The author analyzed the reasons why IQ score is usually lower at that age. The article contains examples of long-living people who remained intellectually active despite their old age. The article also discusses grounds for creating psychological anti-ageing methods which would prevent age-specific changes in intellect and professional activity.

Keywords: psychology, anti ageing, long-living people, age, potentials, intellect, personality, ageing, gerontopsychology

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Abstract: The article analyzes the questions related to the peculiarity of creative thinking. It is explained why people of different cultures can retrieve information by using alternative (including archaic) forms of perception and storing data. These are the forms which make intuition and “insight” possible. The author researched the very different kind of unconscious thinking processes of people with a high creative potential (in particular, their ability to operate the contradictory information). The author described a specific conceptual framework used by the creative people. The framework involves: source database, nature of associations, status of cognitive stereotypes in their thinking, role of verbalized information and etc. The article also covers some specific features of their emotional sphere and how it influences their thinking.

Keywords: psychology, creativity, thinking, freedom, contradiction, associability, information, perception, representation

Abstract: The topic of ambivalence (duality of human feelings) is very important because it concerns the human nature. It is impossible to imagine human WITHOUT the phenomenon of ambivalence. Human cannot exist without it just as he can’t exist without blood. Ambivalence is one of the features which make us human. According to the author, ambivalence of human feelings is some kind of a mystery which needs to be discovered.

Keywords: psychology, philosophical anthropology, human, psyche, love, hatred, taboo, patricide, mind, schizophrenia

Abstract: Life is constantly giving us difficult tasks when we have to choose a certain strategy. Quite often a personality is put on the “marginal” edge of life and has to face the classical choice, - to be or not to be. Noble Hamlet made his own existential choice and moved towards his fate, or the “core”. From the point of view of depth psychology, his path can be viewed as the way from the “marginal” zone (the unconscious) to the center (Ego). So Hamlet was on his way to the center but then he tragically died. This image of the hero and victim may appear in different forms and be performed by different personality types but it will always remain somewhere near or even inside our own personality.

Keywords: psychology, spiritual marginals, destiny, existential choice, psychological reality, signs of fate, “Wise Old Man” archetype, dignity, transformation of soul, Hamlet archetype

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Abstract: The article considers the practical side of archetypes of the collective unconscious. The author described the components of psyche according to Jung and analyzed the archetypes of Self, Shadow, Persona and Ego. The author also covered how Jung’s conceptions could be used in social work and teaching.

Keywords: psychology, analytical psychology, psychoanalysis, psyche, Self, Shadow, Persona, Ego, myth, mythology

Abstract: The article is devoted to the phenomenon of activation of human potentials at the moment of exposure to stress. The author described the experimental models of tress (physical stress, chemical stress, sexual stress) and the term “true emotions”. Experiencing of “true emotions” activates human potentials and relates to such emotions as interest and surprise in opposition to boredom and indifference.

Keywords: psychology, potentials, stress, interest, emotions, surprise, fragrances, smell, reserves, experiment

Abstract: Development of methods of field experiment resulted in principals and methods of evaluating socially significant projects applicable to life. “Sesame Street” project is a TV project as long as life. It is shown how methods of evaluating this project have been changing throughout almost 40 years.

Keywords: psychology, evaluation methods, effectiveness, education, project, social, skills, literacy, teleproduction

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Abstract: Lifestyle means specific features of human everyday life. It consists of domestic life, traditions and habits, living and professional stereotypes and communication. For instance, if you put people coming from different societies and following different traditions on one deserted island, what they see and how they act there will differ greatly. There is an invisible but quite sensible screen separating people from their surroundings and this screen is what we call “lifestyle”.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy advertising, lifestyle, subculture, civilization, way of living, charisma, technologism, culture