标题：Psychophysiological indicators of the human functional state in the process of socio-psychological testing ethnic and religious... Psychology in Russia: State of the Art
摘要：To assess the structure of inter-ethnic attitudes and the risks of ethnoreligioustension, psychologists mostly use questionnaires, interviews, subjective scaling,content analysis, and special tests. One possible approach to increasing the validity andreliability of these explicit methods is the use of the registration of psychophysiologicalindicators while a recipient completes the questionnaire or test forms.Objective. The results of a pilot psychophysiological research are presented, whichfocus on the study of human psycho-emotional states during socio-psychological testingto identify attitudes in the field of interethnic and interfaith relations.Design. The essence of the applied experimental approach is to control the functional(psycho-emotional) state of a respondent using the registration of complex psychophysiological(physiological and behavioral) responses in the process of completingthe socio-psychological questionnaire.Results. It was shown that the rhythmic brain activity (ratio of the power indexesof alpha and beta rhythms), the amplitude of the systolic wave (photoplethysmogram)(ASW PhPG) and the magnitude (length) of the ‘circumflex line of the Galvanic Skin Response’(GSR-L) may be the complex of indicators that possess sufficiently high selectivesensitivity to differentiate nonspecific reactions of the human nervous system to personallyimportant (emotiogenic, stressful) questions in the questionnaire.Conclusion. The proposed approach may help to identify stressful (emotiogenic)issues (questions) in socio-psychological tests and questionnaires that are of the greatestinterest to the subject and, as a result, most adequately reflect individual and populationattitudes in the field of social relations.
关键词：socio-psychological testing; ethnic and religious attitudes; psycho-emotional;states; psychophysiological diagnostics
