The article deals with topical issues of training specialists in the field of cyberpsychology. The article analyzes the history and current state of the designated problem in various countries. There is an expansion of the requirements for the teaching staff leading the training of this category of specialists, determined by the relationship of cyber-psychology with various branches of scientific knowledge. Attention is focused on the insufficient number of textbooks and teaching aids, as well as the speed of “aging” of the information presented in them. The expediency of highlighting the psychological features of cyber-socialization of personality as a promising direction of research in the field under consideration is indicated.

Various approaches to the study of loneliness in psychology are discussed, among which the cultural-historical approach is highlighted. The concepts of loneliness and solitude are correlated. The forms of representation of the problem of loneliness in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky, T. Mann, A. P. Chekhov, M. Vrubel, I. Levitan are analyzed.

The analysis of biographical materials, interviews and memoirs of students and employees of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education A. A. Bodalev and director of school No. 22 in Kuibyshev (Samara) V. D. Ostrovsky is carried out. The general, special and singular at the main stages of life and in the personality characteristics of both Teachers— the creators of author’s schools are singled out, memories of them are presented.

The article briefly analyzes the life path in science and the professional activities of the prominent educational psychologist N. V. Kuzmina. She is the founder of such an innovative field of human science as acmeology for the development of professionalism of adult specialists. She implemented this innovative discipline based on the study of the work of such main subjects of the education system as a kindergarten teacher, a school teacher, a master of industrial training, a teacher and a university dean. The article is the first to analyze, from the standpoint of subject-activity and institutional-personological approaches, the outstanding role of N. V. Kuzmina in studying the development of abilities, pedagogical talent and talent of teachers in the education system. The decisive creative contribution of N.V. Kuzmina and her scientific school to the creation of the foundations and development of acmeology technologies in modern human science is shown.

The study is devoted to the study of the influence of students’ attendance of synchronous online classes on academic performance. The author conducted a survey of students, which assessed the attendance of webinars, interest in the subject, the level of satisfaction with the educational process and the educational results obtained. Various factors that can influence the level of motivation of students to study in an online format are also considered. It is revealed that there is a direct relationship between attendance, academic success, and satisfaction with the educational process. The research has practical significance for methodologists, teachers, and heads of educational organizations in the context of designing distance learning programs and developing strategies for motivating students.

The article reviews the views of various authors on the relationship between anxiety and self-awareness in ontogeny. An interpretation of the influence of the features of the development of self-consciousness on the level of anxiety in children from the standpoint of culturalhistorical psychology is proposed.

In recent decades, the state educational policy in Russia has changed markedly. A unified state exam has been introduced in secondary schools. The training of specialists in universities was replaced by bachelor’s and master’s degrees, destroying Soviet educational programs. A significant part of face-to-face forms of meaningful interactions have been replaced by information technologies and distance learning. All these transformations are often justified by references to the theory of cultural and historical development of higher mental functions and the psychological theory of activity. At the same time, the results of “optimization” in educational institutions of the country come into direct contradiction with these theoretical approaches and correspond to naive hypotheses that “the brain inside the brain generates the psyche with the help of the brain, based on the processing of information coming through the senses”.

В статье анализируются значимые вехи истории изучения в российской педагогической психологии образовательной среды развития учащихся, выделяются ее основные модели, а также показано их значение для оптимизации учебно-воспитательного процесса формирования мышления и личности в современном образовательном пространстве.

The article describes and analyzes the most important stages of the pedagogical and scientific activity of the academician and vice-president of the Russian Academy of Education, chairman of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission on psychology and pedagogy, David Iosifovich Feldshtein (1929–2015). The emphasis is on his pedagogical and organizational skills, as well as his studies of developmental psychology, considered in a cultural and historical context.

The problem of studying spiritual phenomena is relevant in connection with the increasing demands from various social and medical services for the development of knowledge-intensive models of work and assistance, taking into account the spiritual dimension of human life. The article reviews the main views on the essence and nature of spiritual phenomena in psychological science, taking into account the prerequisites in philosophical and religious traditions, and outlines the readiness and possibilities of using the concept of “spiritual meaning” by psychology as a reflection of a person’s spiritual experience in the semantic structure of consciousness. It is believed that spiritual meaning is a category capable of carrying out research in the field of spirituality, religiosity and psychology at an interdisciplinary level.

The modern world is undergoing huge changes and the introduction of digital devices into all spheres of life significantly rebuilds our everyday life. The real world is increasingly being supplemented by immersive technologies, forming a unique life of a modern person in a mixed online/offline reality. The new immersive reality affects all spheres of human activity and is now the subject of interdisciplinary research in the field of modern psychology. The use of immersive technologies has great potential in the future in terms of training and development of interpersonal skills, experimental psychology, social and also, possibly, in clinical diagnostics and therapy.

The article analyzes the scientific and organizational activity of one of the leading specialists in this field, Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Moscow Branch of the Russian Psychological Society (RPO) D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya against the background of the evolution of the study of thinking, abilities, giftedness, creativity in Russian human studies. The relevance of the article is determined by the need to study the history of the Russian psychology of creativity and determine the contribution to its development of D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya with the participants of the scientific school of diagnostics of abilities and development of giftedness and creativity created by her. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in the institutional and personological plan, the periodization of D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya’s life creation was constructed and a system—holistic analysis of the logic of the development of her cognitive research and scientific and social activities was carried out according to the 30-year leadership of the Moscow Branch of the RPO, the Laboratory of Psychodiagnostics of Creative Abilities of the Psychological Institute of RAO and Inter.

The article presents the results of a study on the relationship between the psychological climate in the team and motivation for success among the employees of the career center and the HR department of the company “DOM.RF”. The study revealed differences between the indicators of interns and permanent employees and demonstrated a direct relationship between the favorability of the psychological climate and a high level of staff motivation.

There are relatively few studies on the human motivation to get involved in watching fictional horror on the screen and how a horror movie affects people’s behavioral, cognitive and emotional reactions. Why do young people enjoy horror films, how individual differences affect the reaction and preference for horror films, whether horror films affect behavior, why we are afraid of certain “classes” of stimuli, and also how sympathy for horror develops... The author of the article analyzes the psychological aspect of this phenomenon, and also considers how it affects the psyche of modern students in the process of studying the discipline “Psychology of Cinema”.

The problem of general regularities of abnormal development are analyzed from the standpoint of cultural-historical psychology. The importance of its solution is substantiated not only for the problems of differential diagnostics of a child abnormal development, but also for designing the practice of psychological assistance in accordance with its individual characteristics. An interpretation of the regularities of abnormal development as violations, lags or distortions of the work of the regularities of normal mental development is proposed. The regularities of abnormal mental development can be divided into two groups: the first reflects deviations in the formation of higher mental functions, the second — deviations in the work of general development regularities that reveal the dynamics of changes and the systemic interaction of mental functions.

This article presents a review of the latest edition of the “Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research” (2021). Newest version presents modern research in the field of personality psychology, which reveals new prospects for its development. In addition to a new perspective on the personality characteristics already discussed in previous editions, the latest handbook edition describes the study results on the relationship between aspects of personality and external conditions, as well as information on the influence of the latter on personality development. The review analyzes the new trends in the research of personality psychology which are highlighted by the authors of the handbook.

В статье представлена модель процесса проектирования, названная моделью малых изменений. Она описывает процесс проектирования в разных сферах деятельности, таких как проектирование машин, программирование, искусство. Ключевая идея модели заключается в том, что любые изменения в проектируемых объектах происходят за счет неосознаваемого алгоритма, подобного тем, что используются в задачах эволюционной оптимизации, после чего следует сознательная интерпретации этих изменений. Модель объясняет некоторые явления, возникающие при проектировании, например эффект фиксации, и позволяет сделать выводы о том, как лучше обучать проектированию. Данную модель можно использовать для математического моделирования процесса проектирования.

The article presents a theoretical review of scientific research describing coping with stress, and a study to test the method of Jim White and Mary Keenan — stress control. Stress research is currently important for both practical psychology and sports psychology. Stress control — a psychoeducative low intensity method, using group methods of work, — is proposed to be studied along with other forms of coping behavior used in practical psychology and sports psychology. The technology of stress control, its advantages, as well as the process and results of its approbation on athletes as part of the correction of anxiety are described.

The article reviews the views of various authors on the structural components, origins and mechanisms of self-consciousness development in ontogenesis. Interpretation of the process of development of self-consciousness in early age from the position of cultural-historical psychology is offered.

The use of games in education depends on the direction of training: 1) on mastering professional pedantry or 2) on mastering professional virtuosity. Stanislavsky’s method of “simple physical actions” helps to solve pedagogical problems of school lessons. Not only because it prevents students from refusing to perform the teacher’s tasks, but also because it becomes a methodological support for teachers in freeing the process of teaching children from the cult of awareness, imposed by thought-activity pedagogy and violating the natural links between the development of individual curiosity in schoolchildren and their natural disinterestedness.