Providing a first time look at the long-hidden world of Soviet psychology, this volume assembles a group of psychologists from both Russia and the United States to discuss the ways in which two major world powers have defined contemporary psychological issues.

• 1.: Diane F. Halpern and Alexander Voiskounsky: Introduction to States of Mind: Psychology in a Sociopolitical Context


• Part I. Politics and Persuasion


• Political Psychology


• 2.: Victor F. Petrenko and Olga V. Mitina: The Psychosemantic Approach to Political Psychology: Mapping Russian Political Thought


• 3.: Philip E. Tetlock: Psychological Perspectives on International Conflict and Cooperation


• The Psychology of Truth and Lies


• 4.: Victor Znakov: Comprehension of Lies: A Russian View


• 5.: Paul Ekman: Deception, Lying, and Demeanor


• Advertizing and the Media


• 6.: Dimitry A. Leontiev: Russian Advertising in Search of Psychology


• 7.: Anthony R. Pratkanis: The Social Psychology of Mass Communications: An American Perspective


• Part II. Contemporary Crises in Mental Health


• Alcoholism


• 8.: Peter E. Nathan: Alcoholism in America: Extent, Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention


• 9.: Boris S. Bratus: Alcoholism in Russia: The Enemy Within


• Psychological Trauma


• 10.: Teresa L. Kramer and Bonnie L. Green: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Historical Context and Evolution


• 11.: Madrudin S. Magomed-Eminov: Post Traumatic Stress Disorders as a Loss of Meaning of Life


• Changing Demographics: The New Old


• 12.: Timothy A. Salthouse: Gerontological Psychology: The Western Perspective


• 13.: Vera A. Kol`tsova, Natasha B. Meshalkina and Yuri N. Olegnik: A Lifespan Approach to the Study of Psychogerontology in Russia


• Part III. Prejudice and Interethnic Hostilities


• 14.: Galina U. Soldatova: Strangers in the Homeland: Problems of Forced Immigrants in Russia


• 15.: Aksel Kirch, Marika Kirch, Tarmo Tuisk, and Vello Pettai: Changed Ethnic and National Identities in Estonia


• 16.: Evgeny Golovakha and Natalya Panina: Interethnic Intolerance in Post-Soviet Ukraine


• 17.: Pamela Trotman Reid and Nicole E. Holland: Prejudice and Discrimination: Old Paradigms in New Models for Psychology


• 18.: Jonathan S. Kaplan and Stanley Sue: Ethnic Psychology in the United States


• Part IV. Environmental and Ecological Psychology


• 19.: Paul A. Bell and Eric D. Sundstrom: Environmental Psychology: Evolution and Current Status


• 20.: Sergei Deryabo and Vitold Yasvin: Environmental and "Green" Psychology in the Former Soviet Union


• Index