Lomonosov Psychology Journal, 2010, 2, 144.

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.

This article describes the connections between the use of types of mental imagery by athletes and the level of their imagination. Basing on the model of imagery use proposed by K.Martin, S. Moritz and C.Hall the authors used a Russian version of "The Sport Imagery Questionnaire" (SIQ) with soccer players 8, 10 and 14 years old. The data shows that subjects with a higher level of imagination are more inclined to use mental imagery in their practice; the age differences in types of imagery usage are shown.

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 socio-economic changes undertaken in the Moscow region are discussed.

Main socio"cultural changes in modern society are outlined. Their influence on personality development of children and adolescents is revealed. The features of contemporary children due to evolutionary morphological transformations of human are discussed. The problems that comes from these processes to the psychological and pedagogical theory and practice, especially in the modern school, are described.

Work is devoted to testing the hypothesis that such modular principle of organization of mechanisms of sensations of brightness is universal in a wide range of animals, including invertebrates. The article presents the results of an experimental study of achromatic vision of snail Helix lucorum, obtained by recording the total electrical activity of the retina (electroretinogram, ERG) and optic nerve.

In article the critical analysis of a condition of working out of a problem terrorism in psychology is given. The new approach to understanding of essence of terrorism, ways of its preventive maintenance and suppression is proved.

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.

Dear collegues! We present the final issue of our magazine for 2010 year. This year was pretty hard for the Russian psychological society, though very interesting and rich.

Here are just a few results of this year. We succeeded not only in saving existing fields of trainings for psychologists in the system of the highest psychological education, but also in adding the new ones. It is really important for the harmonization of the educational standards with European psychological certificate EuroPsy.

Report is devoted to the Open competition for the best scientific work of students in the natural, technical and humanitarian sciences in universities of Russia. The organization and features of the competition are described. The competitive works are described and the results are analyzed.

One of the pressing problems of practical psychology at the present stage of development of education is to find ways to justify an individual approach to every child in the context of realization of resource of creativity in the educational institutions of various types and levels.

The report presents a summary of the conference on the status and problems of modern Russian Applied Psychology. Summary and suggestions of participants in each of the seven sessions are presented.

Concepts of "violence" and "effort" in the context of the development of the child are discussed. Nature, importance and relation of these concepts in modern psychology are shown. The idea of "humanistic" nonviolent pedagogy is analyzed. The value of "effort" for the normal development of personality is shown.

The problems of interconnection between mass media and the negative effects of terrorism are analyzed, as well as the media’s role in the process of their monitoring and reduction. It is shown that to counter terrorism effectively it is not enough to have knowledge only about the differentiation of terrorism and its purposes. It is needed to consider this type of crime in terms of its psychological and social consequences for individuals and society.

The socio-economic, socio-cultural, socio-psychological, religious and ethnic determinants of modern terrorism are discussed. The results of studies of social psychologists of the Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Sciences are presented. Search of a new positive personal identity is considered an important motive of the suicide bombers.

The socio-psychological maturity and self-determination of individual and group subjects is investigated. Subjectness both of the group and its participants is developed in social enriched sphere.

The role of education as a social institution in society is shown. The tasks of national education system at the present stage of rapid change in social consciousness are analyzed. The ways of modernization of national education with the aim of turning it into a resource to reduce social risks and social conflicts motivated by xenophobia, migrant-phobia, social aggression and intolerance are discussed. The necessity of introducing a system of education programs to ensure the development of tolerance, religious tolerance, civic patriotism and social identity among younger generation is shown.

We discuss evolutionary precursors of social intelligence in complex social systems, and dostinguish levels, forms ans types of social intelligence in humans. On the basis of experimental studies of social intelligence in children, we distinguish high, middle and low levels of social intelligence.. The importance of distinguishing levels, forms and types of social intelligence for a number of theoretical and practical issues of preparing a modern child for the effective appropriation of (and functioning in) complex social systems is accentuated.

The present article aims to investigate the impact of the World financial crisis (2007-2010) on the international relations. The study focuses on the two dimensions: the practical that is the policy and the theoretical that is the recession influence on the international relation system theoretical approach. Against this background the turn to sovereign democracy in seems to enhance Russian clout over the World politics and to provide social development within the nation borders.

The article deals with the problem of incorporation, decoding of precedent phenomena in TV announcement offscreen commentary as well as the problem of Russian pressmen linguistic mind stereotyping; analyses linguistic-ethic problems connected with intervention into communicative space of addressee; undertakes an attempt to discover the main reasons of communicative failures.

Synchronizing the processes of the accomplishing of dual tasks, the duration of the expectations of events and experience of the present, the mental conscious work on preparation for the job and analyzing its results, bodily movement and change in the outside world – attention to such temporary categories allows the psychologist to build an accurate description of human labor in various forms of transport, to outline methods of formation of specialists’ professional skills.