General and Cognitive Psychology

Main courses

Our advantages

Among the lecturers of the programme are: successful young scholars (specialists in cognitive research); and renowned professors and associate professors in Russia who are founders of their own research and theoretical traditions.
The programme provides fundamental training: sophisticated research tasks; high requirements; and in-depth study of primary sources – articles and books in Russian and English.
Students have an opportunity to take part in international conferences and various research projects, some of which are carried out jointly with colleagues from the world’s top universities.
There is an opportunity to do an internship on the basis of world-class laboratories established within the framework of the mega-grants programme of the Government of the Russian Federation.

International relations

Main areas of research

Cognitive and personality prerequisites for intellectual efficiency / inefficiency
Processes for understanding verbal and iconic texts
Understanding different forms of humour
Psychophysiological mechanisms of thinking and speech
Narrative identity construction
Time image and spatial metaphors of time perspective
Moral consciousness and trust/distrust as social and cognitive mechanisms in communicative acts
Possibilities and limitations of the cognitive unconscious
Perception and processing of conflicting and ambiguous incentives
Cognitive control mechanisms
Perceptual categorising mechanisms
Psychological and psychophysiological components of attention processes
Psychophysics and perceptual illusions
The role of implicit knowledge in learning and decision making
The role of consciousness in human cognitive activity
The psychological potential of culture and subjective well-being

Career opportunities

Graduates receive a universal and much-in-demand education in the research, educational and practical sphere. This makes it possible to be fully functional as researchers, teachers, consulting psychologists, coaches, analysts, and experts.
Graduates of the programme carry out analytical work in various private and public companies (for example, they work as a research psychologist, specialist in personnel assessment and testing, monitoring user behaviour, and profiling).
An important competitive advantage of the programme is that the fundamental nature of training and focus on a flexible set of competencies provide graduates with the opportunity to successfully and quickly adapt to the changing conditions of the professional market. The programme also develops the skills to create innovative products that have no analogues, which makes them unique and much-in-demand specialists.