title: Cognitive polyphasia as a strategy for pre-adaptation to social changes
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metadata.value: Khoroshilov, Dmitry A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-08T20:35:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-08T20:35:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Khoroshilov D. A. Cognitive polyphasia as a strategy for pre-adaptation to social changes. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, рр. 161–171.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2022.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37716
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metadata.value: The article analyzes the mechanism of cognitive polyphasia, considered in the context of
  S. Mosсoviсi’s theory of social representations. In social thinking coexist often incompatible
  with each other cognitive attitudes that enter into dynamic relationships with each other. The
  work of cognitive polyphasia can be traced on the example of doublethink in the history of
  Soviet everyday life. Doublethink is considered a characteristic of not only individual, but also
  social, mass consciousness (G. Orwell), which makes it possible to distinguish between the
  concepts of ambivalence (S. Freud), double messages (G. Bateson), and cognitive dissonance
  (L. Festinger). Using examples from Soviet history and culture, the following proposition is
  proved: doublethink is the practice of constructing a subject of social cognition and behavior
  under conditions of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. The diaries of the writer Yu. M. Nagibin.
  But doublethink is also being reproduced in post-Soviet Russia, as can be clearly seen
  from the sociological discussion about the “Soviet Man” (Homo Soveticus). If the supporters
  of the scientific school of Yu. A. Levada and L. D. Gudkov believe that the implicit model of
  a person, constructed in Soviet everyday life, is quite stable and reproducible from Stalin’s
  time up to the present day, new studies of “millennials” conducted at the Higher School of
  Economics under V. V. Radaev reveal differences between the generational groups of Russians
  in a number of value characteristics related to both the way of life and the perception of the
  surrounding world. Competing interpretations of the problem of “Soviet Man” are combined,
  according to the author of the article, with the help of the psychological concept of cognitive
  polyphasia. Doublethink as a specific historical form of cognitive polyphasia has, first of all, a
  prognostic function: the spontaneous generation of vivid images in culture and art, which has
  an “unofficial” and even marginal status, as in the avant-garde of the 1920s and postmodernism
  of the 1990s, has a pre-adaptive potential to future social changes and crises.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project nо. 20-04-60072,
  “Psychological and social determinants of the negative consequences of a pandemic: a systematic analysis
  of the role of factors of long-term individual and social population compliance in minimizing harm from
  coronavirus infection”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doublethink
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Man
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive polyphasia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social representations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: preadaptation to uncertainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Cognitive polyphasia as a strategy for pre-adaptation to social changes
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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