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Digital service innovations have entered all areas of our daily life. They reach out to us via social platforms, mobiles and wearables, smart home applications, and other IoT devices. Oftentimes using personalized AI algorithms, such services aim at preselecting relevant information for us, supporting our decision-making, and making everyday lives easier. However, AI and digital platforms do not come without disadvantages, and they have recently been subject to negative headlines, lawsuits and legislative amendments. The accusation is that digital platforms and services can trigger mental stress, psychological disorders or force people into relationships of dependency. In order to objectivate the debate, this paper introduces a framework to examine and classify digital services in terms of their contribution or contrariness to human wellbeing. Based on the findings of humanistic and positive psychology, the framework gives guidance for the responsible innovation of digital services with the users' needs and wellbeing in mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Value orientations of the young intellectual leaders cause absolute interest because, by realizing their ambitions, projects and making creative breakthroughs, they will eventually change history, create new directions for the development of science and art. Not only the realization of the talented youth's own potential depends on what they think about the meaning of a person, on the worldview positions, but also whether the future society will be humanistic, whether talent will be cultivated in it. The article presents the results of a statistical sociological study of ideas about humanism, qualities of a leader, value orientations and the level of existential fulfillment of young intellectual leaders - graduate students of a technical university. The level of existential fulfillment of the sample is interconnected with a high vitality and self-awareness of health, ideas about humanism as the flourishing of sciences and art, ideas about freedom as a responsible choice, and the morality of universal justice. However, graduate students deliberately downplay the values "stimulation" and "hedonism" (striving for novelty and deep experience to maintain an optimal level of activity). Although the combination of these values with the value "independence" is significant for creative activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Religion and religious environment are the factors that affect the development and psychological status of a person. It is important for adolescents, who are sensitive to changes in the environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight the factors shaping the religiosity of adolescents and their idea of God. The degree of religiosity of adolescents were studied using a questionnaire of Professor C.A. Lewis. Correlations were analyzed by Pearson product-moment correlation. Sample was composed by 320 adolescents from families of Orthodox confession. Correlation analysis by Pearson quotient showed the highest correlation between the factor "Mother influenced my views on the religion" characteristic of the religiosity. The smallest correlation is represented by the factor "the Internet has affected my views on religion". The study showed the existence of a relationship between beliefs about God and the factors that shape religion. God as "required", "loving", "forgiving" is correlated with the factor "Mother influenced my views on religion". Analysis of the results shows that communication with parents' religious forms helps the religious teenager to develop a sense of community and security and reduces the risk of psychological problems. The absence of correlation with the influence of parents on the development of adolescent religiosity indicates a lack of intimacy in communicating with parents. The relationship with parents in the future are projected onto the representation of God as accepting, forgiving, loving, demanding. Only positive emotional attitude of a teenager with parents shape the religious and positive idea of God. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construct of "generation" is very popular in science. A generation is a social community of people with a common history, common values and a similar type of mentality. The article discusses the comparative study of Russian generations «disbelieving» Y (1961-1979 birth years) and «informational» Y (1980-2000 birth years). The historical, psychogenetic, comparative and socio-cultural approaches to the problem of generations change are analysed and contrasted. The methods used include personality methods and the method of personality assessment. We analysed 300 representatives of generations X and Y. The representatives of generation Y showed a lot of suspiciousness, friendliness and aggression. The generation X are the dictator, authoritative and despotic personality types. The article demonstrates that the generations mentality type is related to the general features of the generations in question. The results of the study demonstrate lack of direct transmission between the generations, which leads to indirect transmission of common features. The writer identifies significant differences between the types of mentality characterizing generations X and Y. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, the family institution is undergoing changes: new forms of marriage are being formed; the number of divorces is increasing. Matrimonial relations are dynamic, but the success of family life and the satisfaction of spouses with marriage are directly related to peculiarities of their interaction. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of marriage satisfaction with the character of interpersonal relations of spouses in their youth, and to create a model of relations to predict satisfaction with marriage. The theoretical foundations of the work made fundamental principles of psychology of relations, the ideas of humanistic psychology on the role of relations in personal development and well-being, and concepts of family psychology. The sample comprised 108 young people aged from 20 to 35 being in legal or civil marriage. The following methods were used in the study: 1) Marriage satisfaction test (Stolin, Romanova, Butenko), 2) questionnaire "Analysis of family anxiety" (Eidemiller, Yustitskis); 3) Scales of Liking and Loving (Rubin), 4) Partnership Questionnaire (Hahlweg); 5) questionnaire for measuring the degree of understanding, emotional attraction and respect of partners in marriage (Volkova). Correlation analysis revealed the relationship between the satisfaction with marriage and love, liking, conflict behavior, emotional attraction and respect. Satisfaction with marriage was not correlated with family anxiety, but it was associated with it through conflict behavior. To identify predictors of satisfaction with marriage we used the method of automatic linear modeling. The model includes love and respect (positive link), guilt, anxiety, conflict behavior, communication (negative correlation). The negative role of a high level of communication in the model of satisfaction with marriage was discussed. One of the limitations of the study was that only a part of the sample consisted of married couples, the other respondents were one from each couple. The results obtained can be used to develop a program of psychological assistance to spouses in the practical work of psychological centers, as well as in individual and group counseling to optimize interpersonal relations between spouses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Six experiments are described that take well-established psychological effects on human cognition and affect and 'time-reverse' them so that the individual's responses are obtained before the putatively causal stimulus events occur. Two of the experiments tested for the retroactive facilitation of recall: It is well known that rehearsing or practicing a set of verbal materials enhances an individual's ability to recall them on a subsequent test. In our experiments, participants were first shown 48 common words one at a time and were then asked to recall as many of those words as they could. They were then given practice exercises on a randomly selected subset of those words. The results show that participants recalled more of the words they later practiced than the control words they did not practice. Two experiments on retroactive priming provide evidence for retroactive influence on an individual's response times when judging the pleasantness or unpleasantness of visual stimuli. Finally, two experiments provide evidence for the retroactive habituation to emotionally arousing visual stimuli. Each of the six experiments yielded statistically significant results, with a combined z = 3.66, p = .0001, and an effect size (d) of 0.25. The six experiments are a subset of nine retroactive influence experiments reported in Bem [1] that yielded a combined z = 6.66, p = 1.34×10-11, and an effect size of 0.22. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]