Video and interview

We are glad to introduce to you an interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with Dr. Prof. Josef Perner from University of Salzburg (Austria). Professor Perner studies cognitive development, specifically theory of mind and mental representations in different ages.

We are glad to introduce you a short interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with Giacomo Rizzolatti. Giacomo Rizzolatti — Professor of the Department of Neurosciences, Università di Parma, Italy. The Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey; past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.

We are glad to introduce you a short interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with Dr. Prof. Francisco Pons (University of Oslo, Norway). Professor Pons studies emotional development from the Cross-cultural perspective. In the interview he discusses a position of psychology in our globalised world, speaks about close connection between helping people and understanding them, objective research and applied psychological science. He also gives recommendations on how to become a productive psychologist and benefit society.

We are glad to introduce you an interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with Dr. Prof. Elly Singer from University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Professor Singer studies early childhood education from multiple perspectives. In this interview she is talking about important role of play and playfulness in children's everyday life. Professor Singer describes the main paths of child play research in Netherlands and pays special attention to Vygotsky's ideas about early childhood.

We are glad to introduce you a short interview of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" with the most famous psychologist from Africa – Dr. Saths Cooper. Saths Cooper is the president of the Pan-African Psychology Union (PAPU). He has played leadership roles in various community, cultural, educational, political, professional, scientific, student, worker and youth entities in South Africa and abroad. In this interview he is talking about the mission of psychology in the modern world, about most promising areas of psychology, state of psychology research and practice in Africa and also about advances of cultural-historical theory nowadays.