The Institute is part of the Section of philosophy, psychology, sociology and law in the Department of social sciences RAS, established in 1971.
Seventeen scientific subdivisions carry out fundamental, and applied, investigations in the following spheres:
general psychology;
the psychology of personality;
history of psychology;
differential psychology;
psychophysiology;
neuropsychological basis of psychics;
social, economic and ethnic psychology;
engineering and workplace psychology;
developmental and cognitive psychology;
the psychology of talent;
the psychology of speech and psycholinguistics;
statistical psychology;
post-traumatic syndrome and disorder;
the psychology of advertising;
environmental psychology.
There are more than 120 PhD's on the Institute staff, including Academician of RAE, prof. K.A.Abulkhanova; Corresponding Member of RAE, prof. T.N.Ushakova; corr. member of Academy of creative activity of Russian Federation V.P.Morozov; honoured science worker of Russia, honorary member of RAE, prof. L.I.Antzyferova; honoured science and technics worker of Russia, prof. V.A.Bodrov; honoured science worker of Russia, prof. E.V.Shorokhova; prof. V.A.Barabanschikov, prof. V.V.Znakov, prof. Yu.I.Aleksandrov, prof. A.N.Lebedev, prof. A.A.Mit'kin, prof. N.D.Pavlova, prof. E.A.Sergienko, D.N.Zavalishina, V.A.Koltzova, N.V.Tarabrina and many other respected figures.
The history of the Institute is connected with such people as Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, prof. B.F.Lomov (the founder and the first director of the Institute (1971-1989)); Corresponding Member of RAS, prof. A.V.Brushlinsky (the director of the Institute from 1989 till 2002); the first prize winner of the Bekhterev Golden medal, honoured science worker of Russia, prof. Ya.A.Ponomarev; the founder of subjective psychophysics, prof. K.V.Bardin; corr. member of Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, prof. V/D.Nebylitzyn; renowned neurophysiologist, prof. V.B.SHvyrkov; prof. V.N.Druzhinin, and highly respected social psychologist M.I.Bobneva.
The current acting director of the Institute is Anatoliy Laktionovich Zhuravlev.
The Institute of psychology also owns a successful publishing house, "The Institute of Psychology RAN", a department of post-graduate study and other educational structures.
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