Lomonosov Psychology Journal, 2010, 1, 140.

On the example of contribution of the national psychology in a solution of defense problems during The Second World War the potential of application of psychological science is analyzed. Achievements of psychology in the critical areas of the state defense are shown. Distinguished lessons that should be learned for further development of psychology as a safety factor of Russian state are de scribed.

This article presents a research on the specifics of bank employees' job stress during adaptation to organizational changes driven by the bank's economical instability and changes in the management system of the bank. The results shows that all bank employees demonstrate a high level of job stress, which manifests itself in subjective feeling of tension. On the basis of the results we propose some recommendations, including interventions oriented to the reduction of the organizational changes' negative influence on the bank employees' job stress level.

The article presents the text of a lecture presented by the author to psychology students on the theme "Volition" in the course "General Psychology". Author examines the history of the problem and its current state.

Since the time of Galileo (1564—1642), Western civilization has increasingly fallen under the spell of science. Despite this fact, anthropological and psychological research has shown that magical beliefs are present in both children and adults in modern Western industrial cultures. How can a belief in magic coexist with a belief in science in the mind of a rational, educated adult? A possible explanation is that magical beliefs survive in the rational mind by going into the subconscious. Experiments examining this hypothesis will be reviewed; theoretical and practical implications of the existence of subconscious magical beliefs in modern rational adults will be analyzed.

This article describes the results of pilot research conducted for the elaboration of new method, oriented to work motivation diagnostics. It was proved that work motivation could be diagnosed through the subjective differences between motivational objects in the space of estimation scales. Motivation objects (work motives) and estimation scales get empirically and presented.

The importance of studying consumer behavior at the present stage of economic development of society is revealed; a brief review of studies of consumers and their preferences is presented; a new discipline — social psychology of consumer behavior that combines knowledge of several sciences: psychology, sociology, economics, etc. is described; the results of original research of consumer social attitudes in relation to advanced mobile phone system and Internet services in terms of socioeconomic changes undertaken in the Moscow region are discussed.

This article presents the reasons for the development of the Europena psychological certificate EuroPsy, its history and content. Possibilities for the introduction of Europsy in Russia are discussed.

The problems of information security in the area of new technologies are considered. Central to the range of issues under consideration are psychological problems. It is stated that a number of children and adolescents can not use transfer to the virtual environment rules of moral behavior they are familiar with; this is the reason of large influx of newcomers violators of rules of behavior to the networking community. The necessity of developing a special training course designed to help such children and adolescents, as well as the widespread education of the younger generation in the sphere of the basics of cyberethics. The usefulness of this training course is illustrated by the results of a study conducted in the cyber environment: preferred direction of hacker community are demonstrated.

Stages and the historical lessons of the Psychological Society work, based at the Imperial Moscow University in 1885 are marked out. Activity of Society is seen as significant milestone in the development of science and education at Moscow University, as well as across national psychological thought in general.

This article is devoted to the relationship of the two main types of social interaction: cooperation and competition. In the theoretical part we present the links of basic concepts, a historical review of domestic and foreign research on this issue and a number of factors that influence the development of cooperation in a competitive environment. In the empirical part we describe the results of study on the relationship between collectivist attitudes of personality, the level of group reflection and the type of organizational and cultural preferences with the characteristics of cooperative behavior in a small group in a competitive environment.

A project depicting objective criteria for comparative assessment of Russian universities that prepare psychologists is presented.

Interview with Yury P. Zinchenko, Doctor of psychological sciences, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Education, Dean of Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chair of Psychology Council of Russian Educational and Methodical Association for Traditional University Education in Russian Federation, president of Russian Psychological Society.

In the article the psychological study of specific motivational sphere of health workers at hospice — special institutions providing care to patients who are at an incurable stage of disease is described. The results showed that two "qualitatively" different groups of workers on the degree of satisfaction with their work can be singled out, for which different motivating factors are functioning.

The article examines the arguments in favor of extending the idea of developing an individual style of activity under the influence of typological properties of the human nervous system (according to E.A. Klimov) on the style of pedagogical communication of the teacher. Negative aspects and effects of spontaneously generated nonoptimal style of pedagogical communication on the example of "authoritarian" teacher are described. Assumptions about typological characteristics of the nervous system that "pushes" people to the formation of particular style of pedagogical communication are stated.

The article is devoted to the role of family in personal development in childhood. Main negative tendencies of family development, risk factors and basic goals of family consulting are defined. We describe the directions to develop the system of psychological help of the family.

Analysis of the recent foreign publications reveals actual lines of theoretical studies and empirical investigations in this field: a) problems of the structure of organizational identification, and b) problems of relationship of organizational identification with work attitudes and behavior. Organizational identification structure comprises of either various foci (organization, work unit, profession, and career) or subcomponents of this construct (cognitive, affective, evaluative). Most significant jobrelated attitudes and behaviors that correlate with organizational identification are job satisfaction, turnover intention, extrarole and organizational citizenship behavior.

The article is devoted to the theme of international collaboration between Moscow State University by M.V. Lomonosov (MSU) and State University of New York (SUNY). The main goals, directions and perspectives of international cooperation in the sphere of education are discussed.

The article is devoted to the problem of development of personality creativity of the child in the learning process of composing music. An original educational technology courses of composing music, developed on the basis of the theory of planned formation of mental actions (P. Galperin) and author's method of assessment of creativity as a result of musical creativity, based on the concept of creativity R. Sternberg, are presented.