DIRECTOR Aron A. Brudny

The Center for Psychological Research is a scientific/academic subdivision of the Psychology Department at AUCA. The center was founded in 2004 as the Psychology Laboratory. Students and teachers are actively involved in activities of the center. The mission of the center is the promotion of education in the sphere of psychology and the development of experimental methods to build the capacity of specialists in psychology. Major researche areas include Political Psychology, Psychology of Understanding, and Educational Psychology (student-based).

The staff of the center regularly participate in scientific conferences. Publications include the CD-ROM Man and Society, which was supported and recorded with grant support from the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan. This CD-Rom is available upon request.

Theoretical research
Signs as connecting tissue (stroma) of society
Communication as socio-psychological phenomenon
Understanding as an object of psychological research.

Applied research
Money
Business (trade)
Signs
Cross-cultural research
Business as a form of communication
Mass-Media and advertising
Rumors
Mechanism of a dissemination
Self-knowledge
Text Understanding

Collaboration
Center for Innovative Methods in Education
Bureau of Study Council
Kyrgyz National Academy of Science
Moscow State University

Support
Soros Foundation
F. Ebert Stiftung
Aitmatov Foundation
Foundation for Educational Initiatives