Abstract: The author describes a few examples from his own clinical experience as well as famous ‘real life’ stories about punishment for wrongdoings. According to the author, all our wrongdoings eventually lead to certain consequences. The author is mostly interested in psychological side of oblation.

Keywords: psychology, theology, oblation, fate, punishment, delinquency

Abstract: The article analyzes peculiarities of the Africans’ mentality. The author describes a so-called traditional way of thinking and interprets African philosophy.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, religion, mentality, tradition, totem, taboo, ritual, generation

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Abstract: At a certain stage of his development human became a historical creature. He diligently collected and formed his ideas around the events which seemed the most important to him and in which he was the main character. From the philosophical point of view human history is the ‘history of human’ in the fi rst place, or to be more exact, evolution of the concept of human. The author of the article analyzes the Cassirer’s idea on human being a ‘symbolic animal’.

Keywords: human, symbol, philosophy, psychology, symbolic animal, philosophical anthropology, substance, function, speech

Abstract: The article analyzes the program and methodology of modeling human intellect from the interdisciplinary approach. Main attention is paid at defi ning basic terms including the term ‘information’.

Keywords: psychology, cognitive science, information, intellect, modeling, communication, data base, knowledge data base, representation

Abstract: One of aims of gender psychology is to study differences in psychology of men and women. In our country gender psychology is only making its fi rst steps although corresponding researches were started at the very moment when feministic movements began in Russia. These movements were based on the idea of equality of sexes in various areas of everyday activity.

Keywords: psychology, sex, gender differences, approaches, conceptions, views, distinctive characteristics, personal traits, formation, behavior

Abstract: The article determines the main components of civic consciousness and reveals correlations between personal traits of a teacher and his civic consciousness components. The author describes the results of the correlation analysis proving the regular patterns of development of a teacher’s civic consciousness.

Keywords: psychology, civic consciousness, levels of civic consciousness, affective component, understanding of behavior motivations, estimated result, socially effective activity.

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Abstract: The author of the article describes ethno cultural activity of a person in such spheres of life as professional and social activities, teaching, culture and art, everyday life and social environment. According to the author, a signifi cant role in formation of ethno cultural environment belongs to an organized system of teaching and up-bringing.

Keywords: teaching, ethno cultural growth of a student, organized system of teaching and up-bringing, ethno cultural behavior, social and verbal environment, determinants of the teaching content

Abstract: The article discusses the problem of absence of differentiation in teaching foreign languages and broad translation at Russian universities. The author views the concept of competence as the key concept of the Bologna process as well as communicative competence and professional interpreter’s competence as the basic principles of modern lingvo didactics and teaching translation skills respectively. The author analyzes component models of communicative competence and interpreter’s competence and makes certain general conclusiosn on the matter.

Keywords: teaching, Bologna process, communication competence, interpreter’s competence, component linguistic model, differentiation, lingo didactics, broad translation, competence formation

Abstract: The author of the article considers approaches to periodization of personal development based on the system analysis including stages of development and conceptual and structural components. The author describes form of social regulation of every stage, new formations, problems and mechanisms of personal development. The author also defi nes certain regular patterns of professional development of a psychologist’s personality.

Keywords: psychology, professional development of a personality, objects of the age development, professional competence, new formations, mechanisms of professional development, psychologist’s personality

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Abstract: The article analyzes the theory of complementary dimensions in physics and psychology. In this context, dimensions should be interpreted as space and time coordinates (traditionally, three space coordinates and one time coordinate). It is assumed that there should be the forth ‘space-alike’ dimension. The author tells about introspective experiments connected with imagining complementary space-alike dimensions of the psyche in altered states of consciousness. As an example the author describes reversible induction of neuropsycological symptoms when a person is being hypnotized. The article also considers the model of the psyche as a multi-dimension reality.

Keywords: psychology, psyche, imagination, inner space, complementary dimensions, altered state of consciousness, hypnosis, active imagination, introspective experiment, introspection

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Abstract: The author wrote his article in the form of an essay about psychological basis of drinking. Based on the author, Russian alcohol addiction is connected with concrete traditions and the Russian mentality. This article is not a joke. It is quite serious and has certain realistic purposes.

Keywords: psychology, anthropology, mentality, health, metaphysics, revelation, psychophysiology, personality, sociality, drinking