• 1. Introduction to States of Mind: Psychology in a Sociopolitical Context ; Part I. Politics and Persuasion ; Political Psychology ; 2. The Psychosemantic Approach to Political Psychology: Mapping Russian Political Thought ; 3. Psychological Perspectives on International Conflict and Cooperation ; The Psychology of Truth and Lies ; 4. Comprehension of Lies: A Russian View ; 5. Deception, Lying, and Demeanor ; Advertizing and the Media ; 6. Russian Advertising in Search of Psychology ; 7. The Social Psychology of Mass Communications: An American Perspective ; Part II. Contemporary Crises in Mental Health ; Alcoholism ; 8. Alcoholism in America: Extent, Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention ; 9. Alcoholism in Russia: The Enemy Within ; Psychological Trauma ; 10. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Historical Context and Evolution ; 11. Post Traumatic Stress Disorders as a Loss of Meaning of Life ; Changing Demographics: The New Old ; 12. Gerontological Psychology: The Western Perspective ; 13. A Lifespan Approach to the Study of Psychogerontology in Russia ; Part III. Prejudice and Interethnic Hostilities ; 14. Strangers in the Homeland: Problems of Forced Immigrants in Russia ; 15. Changed Ethnic and National Identities in Estonia ; 16. Interethnic Intolerance in Post-Soviet Ukraine ; 17. Prejudice and Discrimination: Old Paradigms in New Models for Psychology ; 18. Ethnic Psychology in the United States ; Part IV. Environmental and Ecological Psychology ; 19. Environmental Psychology: Evolution and Current Status ; 20. Environmental and "Green" Psychology in the Former Soviet Union ; Index

What a brilliant idea to bring under the cover of this book the results gained by Eastern (post-Soviet) and Western researchers on the same or close psychological problems. The authors are not competing with each other, they are making a mutual breakthrough to meet the challenge for the benefit of world science and of each particular reader.

• 1. Introduction to States of Mind: Psychology in a Sociopolitical Context ; Part I. Politics and Persuasion ; Political Psychology ; 2. The Psychosemantic Approach to Political Psychology: Mapping Russian Political Thought ; 3. Psychological Perspectives on International Conflict and Cooperation ; The Psychology of Truth and Lies ; 4. Comprehension of Lies: A Russian View ; 5. Deception, Lying, and Demeanor ; Advertizing and the Media ; 6. Russian Advertising in Search of Psychology ; 7. The Social Psychology of Mass Communications: An American Perspective ; Part II. Contemporary Crises in Mental Health ; Alcoholism ; 8. Alcoholism in America: Extent, Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention ; 9. Alcoholism in Russia: The Enemy Within ; Psychological Trauma ; 10. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Historical Context and Evolution ; 11. Post Traumatic Stress Disorders as a Loss of Meaning of Life ; Changing Demographics: The New Old ; 12. Gerontological Psychology: The Western Perspective ; 13. A Lifespan Approach to the Study of Psychogerontology in Russia ; Part III. Prejudice and Interethnic Hostilities ; 14. Strangers in the Homeland: Problems of Forced Immigrants in Russia ; 15. Changed Ethnic and National Identities in Estonia ; 16. Interethnic Intolerance in Post-Soviet Ukraine ; 17. Prejudice and Discrimination: Old Paradigms in New Models for Psychology ; 18. Ethnic Psychology in the United States ; Part IV. Environmental and Ecological Psychology ; 19. Environmental Psychology: Evolution and Current Status ; 20. Environmental and "Green" Psychology in the Former Soviet Union ; Index

What a brilliant idea to bring under the cover of this book the results gained by Eastern (post-Soviet) and Western researchers on the same or close psychological problems. The authors are not competing with each other, they are making a mutual breakthrough to meet the challenge for the benefit of world science and of each particular reader.

• 1. Introduction to States of Mind: Psychology in a Sociopolitical Context ; Part I. Politics and Persuasion ; Political Psychology ; 2. The Psychosemantic Approach to Political Psychology: Mapping Russian Political Thought ; 3. Psychological Perspectives on International Conflict and Cooperation ; The Psychology of Truth and Lies ; 4. Comprehension of Lies: A Russian View ; 5. Deception, Lying, and Demeanor ; Advertizing and the Media ; 6. Russian Advertising in Search of Psychology ; 7. The Social Psychology of Mass Communications: An American Perspective ; Part II. Contemporary Crises in Mental Health ; Alcoholism ; 8. Alcoholism in America: Extent, Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention ; 9. Alcoholism in Russia: The Enemy Within ; Psychological Trauma ; 10. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Historical Context and Evolution ; 11. Post Traumatic Stress Disorders as a Loss of Meaning of Life ; Changing Demographics: The New Old ; 12. Gerontological Psychology: The Western Perspective ; 13. A Lifespan Approach to the Study of Psychogerontology in Russia ; Part III. Prejudice and Interethnic Hostilities ; 14. Strangers in the Homeland: Problems of Forced Immigrants in Russia ; 15. Changed Ethnic and National Identities in Estonia ; 16. Interethnic Intolerance in Post-Soviet Ukraine ; 17. Prejudice and Discrimination: Old Paradigms in New Models for Psychology ; 18. Ethnic Psychology in the United States ; Part IV. Environmental and Ecological Psychology ; 19. Environmental Psychology: Evolution and Current Status ; 20. Environmental and "Green" Psychology in the Former Soviet Union ; Index

What a brilliant idea to bring under the cover of this book the results gained by Eastern (post-Soviet) and Western researchers on the same or close psychological problems. The authors are not competing with each other, they are making a mutual breakthrough to meet the challenge for the benefit of world science and of each particular reader.