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Master's Program Cyberpsychology

Psychological Education for Six Professions of the Modern World

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About program

Cyberpsychology at Lobachevsky University is a multidisciplinary master's program in the basic direction "Psychology", which trains specialists in at least six popular professions of our time.

Cyberpsychology covers almost any aspect of human interaction and the virtual environment. Undergraduates are trained in the skills of functional diagnostics and the ability to process its results using modern programming languages.

In addition, we teach the basics of human perception of information, and then we show how to apply this knowledge when creating your own products or when examining existing ones.

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Professors
Valeria Demareva

Head of the Program, Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Security and Humanitarian Technologies, Head Laboratory of Cyberpsychology

Courses: Psychology of virtual reality and cyberpsychology; Design thinking; Psychophysiological VR workshop; Psychological counseling for IT specialists; Psychological aspects of promoting online products; Usability testing of online products see more
Anastasia Golubinskaya

Ph.D. in Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Security and Humanitarian Technologies

Courses: Digital Pedagogy; Philosophy and psychology of knowledge; Self-organization, time management and planning; Critical thinking in Internet media; History and philosophy of psychology see more
Grigory Radchenko

Ph.D. in Biology, Researcher at Mind Technology LLC

Courses: Fundamentals of user experience design; Neuroergonomics; Fundamentals of Neuroscience see more
Yulia Edeleva

Research Fellow, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; Lecturer, Technical University of Braunschweig

Courses: Cognitive Linguistics of the Virtual Environment; terminology management; German see more
Yulia Edeleva

Research Fellow, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; Lecturer, Technical University of Braunschweig

Courses: Cognitive Linguistics of the Virtual Environment; terminology management; German

E-mail:y.edeleva@tu-braunschweig.de ORCID: 0000-0003-0053-0151
Irina Petrova

Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Head. Department of Industrial and Applied Sociology

Courses: Information Technology; Big Data&Data Science; Digital Anthropology see more
Alexander Orlov

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychophysiology

Courses: Prevention, diagnosis and correction of online deviations; Psychological safety of the information environment see more
Research areas
1
Usability research, neuromarketing and focus groups

Study of markers of emotional and cognitive response to products and advertising elements; formation of usability research protocols on request; formation of research protocols for goods and advertising elements with focus groups on request.

2
Study of the states of an operator

Search for markers of the cognitive state of the human operator; search for markers of the emotional state of a human operator; development of systems for monitoring the state of the human operator; search for common markers of optimal and extreme states of a human operator.

3
AR & VR

Career guidance for children and adults using VR and AR; development and testing of educational platforms using VR and AR; gamification of education; study of the effectiveness of the introduction of game practice in education; analysis of human-robot interaction using VR and AR.

4
Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism

Ecological validity of competency tests; language indicators of the level of foreign language proficiency; organization and structuring of linguistic databases; study of language acquisition in the classroom system with the help of various support systems (textbooks, tutors, etc.); study of the processes of casual (incidental) language learning; study of the generation and perception of speech; development of diagnostic tools; study of reading skills and factors associated with the successful development of reading skills; study of the development and possession of professional vocabulary; communication in the work of the teacher; academic writing; gamification in linguistics.

5
Psychology of Knowledge and Cognitive Psychology

Metatheoretical studies of cognitive sciences; fundamental research of consciousness and cognition; studies of the influence of Internet media on human cognitive activity; psychology and philosophy of critical thinking in a virtual information environment; psychological research of digital pedagogy and online education.

6
Neurophysiology

Neurophysiological processing of melodic and temporal structure when listening to music; monitoring and diagnostics of functional states using electrophysiology methods; development and implementation of methods for correcting functional states using biofeedback based on music and its individual elements.

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International Students Office

+7 831 462 35 21

admissions@unn.ru

Gagarin Ave., 23, office 306

Open hours: Mon - Thu 9:00 - 17:00

Fri: 9:00 - 16:00

Valeria A. Demareva

Head of the Program, Head of the Laboratory of Cyberpsychology

E-mail: valeriia.demareva@fsn.unn.ru

Address: Nizhny Novgorod, per. University, 7, room 216

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