States of Mind: American and Post-Soviet Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Psychology

States of Mind explores areas that are particularly relevent given current events, including political psychology, advertising and the media, the psychology of truth and lies, alcoholism, psychological trauma, gerontology, prejudice and ethnicity, and environmental psychology. Psychologists from both Russian/Soviet bloc and American/Western backgrounds present their views of their own areas of expertise so that their counterparts on the other side side of the globe can look at familiar issues with a new vantage point.