Call for Papers! Special issue: Personality Psychology from a contemporary perspective

01.08.2018 | Editorial Board Psychology in Russia: State of the Art

Guest editor: Aldert Vrij — is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England.

The special issue of Journal will be devoted to the problems of personality psychology – theoretical bases and approaches to the description and research of personality in the modern reality and its challenges. The journal invites articles on major and innovative issues of psychology of personality. Scholarly reviews, methodological, analytic articles, as well as empirical research presenting new research approaches and data from the studies of personality problems, will be included.

Deadline for submission is November 1st, 2018

Instructions for Authors: http://psychologyinrussia.com/for-authors

Aldert Vrij is one of the leading world scientists in lie detection research. He is also a part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme in Legal Psychology (http://legalpsychology.eu/). He is contact person of the European consortium of Psychological Research on Deception Detection (EPRODD) (www.eprodd.eu). He is editor of the scholarly journal Legal Criminological Psychology, published by the British Psychological Society. He serves on the board of governors of the Society for Applied Reseach in Memory and Cognition and a Programme Director of research on 'Eliciting Information' at the Centre for Reseach and Evidence on Security Threats (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/).

Call for papers! Special issue of "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" — "Education and Human Development"

06.08.2018 | Editorial Board Psychology in Russia: State of the Art

Guest editor: Yulia Kovas

Manuscript submissions deadline extended until September, 15!

Please, submit your manuscripts here http://psychologyinrussia.com/for-authors

International Union of Psychological Sciences Assembly (IUPsyS) of year 2018

09.07.2018 | Directorate RPS

IUPsyS Assembly 2018 was held on 30 June 2018 as a part of the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018) held in Montreal, Canada. 90 representatives from different countries attended the Assembly. Besides usual reports on IUPsyS activities related to psychology promotions on various levels including UN and WHO, the issue of psychologist’ consolidated efforts were discussed, and considered professionals in science and practice around the World. Five working groups were formed trying to address this issue from various angles. The results of this exercise will be transformed into action plan to be implemented by IUPsyS within the next two years. In particular, Russian Psychological Society received invitation from recently established Asia Pacific Psychology Alliance to become an affiliated member.

The first meeting of psychological societies’ representatives from BRICS countries

08.07.2018 | Directorate RPS

International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018), which was held in Montreal, Canada on 25-30 June 2018, welcomed psychologists from many countries. More than 4000 people attended the Congress. An idea to unite BRICS countries’ psychologists was developed at the beginning of the Congress. Representatives from the five countries organized a meeting to discuss effective collaboration among respective psychological societies.