The article provide an analysis of different attitudes to applied behavioral analysis to help children with autism spectrum disorders in North America and Europe. While in the United States and Canada methods of applied behavioral analysis are supported at the state level and are offered to people in need, in most European countries there is a cautious attitude to these methods or even rejection of them. The article contains an analysis of possible reasons for this state of affairs. The difference in philosophical and psychological traditions in the approaches of personal development is considered as the main reason for difference in approaches.

The article analyzes publications about autism in the leading behavioristic journals - the «Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis» (JABA) and the «Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior» (JEAB). In total, 7211 publications published between 1958 and 2017 were identified in Scopus. 597 of them contains terms (in the title, the abstract and/or in the author’s key words) which were used as search topic: «autism», «autistic», «Asperger syndrome» and «pervasive developmental disorder». It was shown that the vast majority of articles concerning autism are published in «Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis» (98 %). The dynamics of publications including cumulative curves is explored. Six thematic clusters in the field of studying autism are highlighted by constructing the terms map based on keyword analysis. The practice of co-citation is analyzed. The results would suggest that there is the essential schism between experimental and applied research of autism within the framework of behavior analysis.

The specifics of the subjective estimation of stress levels, its interactions with anxiety, features of coping with stress and emotion regulation in the mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are considered. The study sample includes two groups of mothers of children with ASD (13 and 27 individuals), and two groups of mothers raising healthy children (12 and 26 individuals). It is shown that mothers bringing up children with ASD tend to rate the stressfulness of life events higher than mothers raising neurotypical children. The increase in the subjective estimation of stress for them is directly related to the anxiety in general and its components. Mothers of children with ASD with an emerging / formed emotional burnout syndrome tend to avoid stressful situations (anticipatory avoidance, avoidance inside a situation, ‘escape’ in cognitive analysis, avoidance of social interactions) to a greater extent compared to mothers with no signs of emotional burnout. Unlike mothers with neurotypical children, social support and self-approval do not provide protection against emotional burnout to mothers of children with ASD. The reasons for this could be both the specifics of bringing up a child with ASD, often associated with social exclusion and sense of failure, as well as greater severity of burnout syndrome.

The article presents the results of the study of the relations between the suicidal thoughts in adolescents and the characteristics of parent-child relationships (attitudes, behavior and methods of parenting of mothers in the perception of adolescents, the position of adolescents in the system of interpersonal relationship and the nature of communication in the family), and social and school maladjustment. The study involved 60 students of 9th grades, 13-15 years old (30 boys and 30 girls, average age 14 ± 0,6 years) of Lyceum No. 7 in Chulym, Novosibirsk Oblast. The following methods were chosen for conducting the psychodiagnostic study: Child's depression depression (CDI, M. Kovacs, 1992 Children's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory (adaptation of E. Matějček, P. Říčan, 1983), the projective test «Family Sociogram» by Justitskis and E. G. Eidemiller (1999), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a form for adolescents (Goodman, 2001). A survey was also conducted to collect information on family composition, psychoactive substance use and the presence of suicidal thoughts. As a result of the study, it was revealed that social and school maladjustment, accompanied by manifestations of anxiety and depressive traits, does not indicate the presence of suicidal tendencies in adolescents. Analysis of the relations between family factors and suicidal behavior of adolescents showed that adolescents’ assessment of mothers’ parenting strategies as directive and overly controlling is positively related to the presence of suicidal thoughts in adolescents. We can also say that adolescents’ egocentric focus on their experiences, sense of isolation and lack of closeness in family relationships are important components suicidal risks in adolescents.

The study is devoted to preliminary adaptation of Russian-language version of Multidimensional State Boredom Scale. The sample consists of 365 persons, with 114 males (M=28,4) and 251 females (M=24,6) among them. It is shown that suggested version of the methods has good psychometric properties. All five scales and total scale have internal consistency from good to high. Validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by means of correlations with scales that theoretically are connected with the boredom construct. Revealed were expected negative correlations with psychological well-being, involvement, mindfulness, as well as positive correlation with neuroticism. Confirmatory factor analysis shows that the five-factor model of the state of boredom is acceptable. According to preliminary results, test-retest reliability of the questionnaire obtained during one month period is rather higher than expected for the situational indicator. Scale’s correlations with personal characteristics can also indicate that the methods measure not only the state of boredom, but also the tendency to be bored.

The article describes intellectual impostures of post-nonclassical psychology. They include: (1) the tricks of self-naming; (2) refusal to follow the criteria of scientific knowledge; (3) abuse of mathematical and physical terminology; (4) indifference to facts; (5) word game; (6) unclear connection with empirical consequences. It is argued that post-nonclassical psychology is more characterized by these impostures, the closer it is to its postmodern version. The described intellectual impostures perform two functions: firstly, they interfere with the elaboration of a scientific psychological theory, and secondly, they legitimize its absence.

The article is concerned with analysis of investigations into «social brain» and default mode network presumably responsible for self-reference and thought processes involved in interactions with others, in various animal species. Discussed are the principal results obtained by studying apes, monkeys, rats and dogs in comparison with humans. It was concluded that the neurophysiological data obtained in these approaches could be used in future studies to significantly expand conceptions of the mental processes underlying self-perception and solving difficult tasks in the area of social interactions regulation in animals.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the organizational structure as a basic characteristic of the organization. The author is convinced of the systemic role of the structure in the development and functioning of the organization. The article discusses the stages of the study of organizational structures by foreign and domestic researchers, the terminological diversity of the wording of the concept of «organizational structure», its place and role as a tool of achieving the goals of the organization. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the organizational structure and its functions are analyzed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the schemes of organizational structures - organigrams. In conclusion, the evolution of the attitude of researchers to the organizational structure is traced from the standpoint of two main theoretical approaches: classical and dynamic.

The article focuses on consideration of business training practices in the context of the experience economy using basic theories of sociology of emotions (J. Barbalet, A. Hochshild and M. Maffesoli). 2 ideal types of training were constructed and analyzed: training show and specific skills training. Both types appeared as a result of the spread of the experience economy and both types stimulate its development. Training show is important as an event that gives unique emotions and impressions, charge of confidence and affects shared in modern tribes. Specific skills training is designed to increase competitiveness in the experience economy: it is necessary to master emotional labor, learn to play roles, create unique impressions and experiences for the clients in different ways.

The article analyzes the problems associated with clip thinking in contemporary students. The history of information revolutions and of the changes they cause in society is considered. On this basis, the forecast is made about the consequences of the contemporary digital revolution. Based on the works of neuropsychiatrists M. Spitzer and T. Compernolle, the concepts of digital dementia and information pseudo-retardation are clarified. Based on author’s own pedagogical experience, practical recommendations are given on how to work with clip thinking in students. The experience of using the computer program Visual Understanding Environment and the technology of ontodesign in the educational process is analyzed. Recommendations are made for improving the process of higher education in connection with the digital revolution. The perspectives of the post-urban society in connection with computerization and the widespread availability of Internet are considered.

The interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty construct is discussed in the paper. We reviewed the definition of the interpersonal intolerance to uncertainty and made an effort to match it with existing characteristics of uncertainty. An overview of the methods by which it is possible to assess intolerance to uncertainty in interpersonal relations was taken, including the analysis of the only Russian-language questionnaire, which contains the scale of interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty - the New Questionnaire of Tolerance / Intolerance to Uncertainty.