States of mind : American and post-Soviet perspectives on contemporary issues in psychology

In this volume Diane Halpern and Alexander Voiskounsky take advantage of recent political events in the former Soviet Union which have created a unique opportunity to study the ways in which two major world powers have defined contemporary psychological issues. States of Mind explores newly evolving areas of psychology that are particularly important at this time in history, including political psychology, the psychology of truth and lies, advertising and the media, alcoholism, psychological trauma, gerontology, prejudice and ethnicity, and environmental psychology, and addresses these topics from both post-Soviet and American perspectives. Read more... Introduction : psychology in a sociopolitical context / Diane F. Halpern & Alexander E. Voiskounsky -- The psychosemantic approach to political psychology : mapping Russian political thought / Victor F. Petrenko & Olga V. Mitina -- Psychological perspectives on international conflict and cooperation / Philip E. Tetlock -- Comprehension of lies : a Russian view / Victor Znakov -- Deception, lying, and demeanor / Paul Ekman -- Russian advertising in search of psychology / Dmitry A. Leontiev -- The social psychology of mass communications : an American perspective / Anthony R. Pratkanis -- Alcoholism in America : extent, diagnosis, etiology, treatment, and prevention / Peter E. Nathan -- Alcoholism in Russia : the enemy within / Boris S. Bratus -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : a historical context and evolution / Teresa L. Kramer & Bonnie L. Green -- Post-traumatic stress disorders as a loss of the meaning of life / Madrudin S. Magomed-Eminov -- Gerontological psychology : the Western perspective / Timothy A. Salthouse -- A life-span approach to the study of psychogerontology in Russia / Vera A. Kol'tsova, Natasha B. Meshalkina, & Yury N. Olegnik -- Strangers in the homeland : ethnopsychological problems of forced immigrants in Russia / Galina U. Soldatova -- Changing ethnic and national identities in Estonia / Aksel Kirch ... [et al.] -- Interethnic intolerance in post-Soviet Ukraine / Evgueny Golovakha & Natalya Panina -- Prejudice and discrimination : old paradigms in new models for psychology / Pamela Trotman Reid & Nicole E. Holland -- Ethnic psychology in the United States / Jonathan S. Kaplan & Stanley Sue -- Environmental psychology : evolution and current status / Paul A. Bell & Eric D. Sundstrom --Environmental and "green" psychology in the former Soviet Union / Sergei Deryabo & Vitold Yasvin -- Conclusion : two faces of psychology / Diane F. Halpern & Alexander E. Voiskounsky. Political belief systems are, at heart, psychological theories of motivation, personality, mental health, education, and social interaction. In this volume, Diane Halpern and Alexander Voiskounsky take advantage of recent political events in the former Soviet Union which have created a unique opportunity to study the ways in which two major world powers have defined contemporary psychological issues. Because access to Western literature in psychology was strictly controlled until 1991, much of Soviet psychology developed independently of Western ideas. Likewise, impediments in communication also prevented Western researchers and theorists from enhancing their work with Soviet perspectives. Although the political climate has changed enormously, barriers to the exchange of ideas still remain. States of Mind explores newly evolving areas of psychology that are particularly important at this time in history, and addresses these topics from both post-Soviet and American perspectives. Psychologists from both backgrounds present their personal views of their own areas of expertise to offer their counterparts a portion of the psychological landscape from a new vantage point. This volume takes advantage of recent political events to study the ways in which two major world powers have defined contemporary psychological issues. It explores areas of psychology that are important at this time in history, and addresses these topics from post-Soviet and American perspectives