Psychology Today – It's Living Research at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Practice: Interuniversity Student Conference Held at MSUPE

On May 13, the Institute of Experimental Psychology of MSUPE, together with the Department of General Psychology, held a major scientific event – the Sixth All-Russian Interuniversity Student Conference "Psychology of Cognition, Communication, Experience, Activity."

Three sections, dozens of reports, and one common vector: psychology today is not just about textbooks, but about living research at the intersection of science, technology, and practice.

First steps? Already confident!

A distinctive feature of the sixth conference was the active participation of first-year students. Undergraduates and master's students, already at the start of their studies, took to the scientific platform: they analyzed the psychosemantics of clinical concepts (Ogurnaya U.B. ), investigated the influence of cognitive biases on scientific creativity (Titkova A.A. ), and analyzed the role of congruent gestures in communication (Levkin A.F. ). This clearly demonstrates that modern psychological education provides tools for research work from the very first semester.

Topics at the epicenter of contemporary challenges:

• AI and thinking: how artificial neural networks and predictive coding help model perception and cognitive processes (Budanova V.S. )
• Corporeality and therapy: Body Mapping, autooriginal, and body-oriented psychotherapy as methods of organizing internal activity and increasing stress resistance (Luneva M.V., Kolchugina Z.A., Zherebtsova E.R. )
• Emotions, intelligence, and crisis: the relationship between general and emotional intelligence and anxiety in adolescents (Fedorov S.R., Samuseva M.A. ); age differences in stress resistance (Volkova A.I. ); identity integration and self-control in the formation of narcissistic traits (Lobova D.A. )

Each report is a bridge between academic theory and real-life practice.

Behind each presentation stood experienced research supervisors: the faculty of the Department of General Psychology at MSUPE. This "student + mentor" tandem ensures the quality of research, maintains academic ethics, and creates an environment where hypotheses turn into empirical results.

The conference concluded with final remarks, but discussions and joint projects are only just beginning. Thank you to all the speakers, moderators, and scientific advisors for the honest dialogue, bold questions, and faith in young science!