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Events of recent years (an economic crisis, local confrontations in Syria, Ukraine, other regions of the world) have consolidated the interdisciplinary status of a problem of migration; they have also put this problem on the highest level of discussion, allowing to consider migratory processes as menacing to the safety and state sovereignty [1], [2], or, on the contrary, promoting economic well-being of a host country [3]. Efforts of psychologists to study migratory processes are directed at the analysis of charac...

Background. Recent psychological research focuses on different factors influencing concern and satisfaction with appearance (Harris et al, 2014; Moss et al, 2012, 2014; Mulgrew & Cragg, 2015; Nergiz-Unalet et al, 2014; Pliner et al, 1990; Stock, 2014). Especially, satisfaction and concern with physical appearance, body form, and body parts has been investigated till now. At the same time due to operationalization of appearance through physical characteristics the impact of evaluation of various appearance componen...

The aim of this study was to analyze the components of appearance in the structure of perception of other people's age. The main method of study: original methodology В«Identification of personВ’s age using photovisualizationВ». Participants of study estimated the age of 20 people (10 men and 10 women aged from 18 to 58 years represented on the photos) and answered the question: В«What in this person allows you to make a conclusion about his or her age?В’. Subjects of perception were 60 respondents. As the result ...