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The Role of the Other in Dealing with Uncertainty

Student: Medvedev Bogdan

Supervisor: Vadim Petrovskiy

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Within the framework of this master's study to be carried out the role of the Other in the process of handling uncertainty. The authors considered both the basis of the uncertainty principle in the framework of psychology methodology and the aspects of uncertainty study in the framework of this science. The authors put forward the thesis that the main way of human treatment with uncertainty is the fact of conscious activity, which can be directed both to decrease and to increase the level of uncertainty, as well as the design of internal functional structures mediating this process. The other was seen precisely as such a functional structure. In the framework of the presented empirical research based on the developed by the authors method of studying the level of uncertainty of the choice of the subject, in terms of different configuration of the involvement of the Other in the functional metastructure of consciousness. According to the results of the study, it was found that the representation of the image of Another (in some of its configurations) can only increase the level of uncertainty of the choice of the subject.

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