Psychological Manifestations of Transforming Value Orientations in the Social Behaviour of the Individual

In the context of the development of modern society, there is a growing interest in the value system of the individual, especially in a transformational society. It forms a kind of the internal core of human culture, thereby determining the line of his behavior at levels of personality-group-society. Analysis of the research data of students of the Khachatur Abovian State Pedagogical University shows that in the ranking of values ??self-regulation, safety, favor is more pronounced. Some values ??in relation to each other are in dynamic conflict, and some are not conflicting pairs. Thus, in modern society, a change in the structure of students' values ??reflects social mobility in favor of personal well-being.

Introduction to the special section: minority politics and the territoriality principle in Europe

Territorial arrangements for managing interethnic relations within states are far from consensual. Although self-governance for minorities is commonly advocated, international documents are ambiguously formulated. Conflicting pairs of principles, territoriality vs. personality, and self-determination vs. territorial integrity, along with diverging state interests account for this gap. Together, the articles in this special section address the territoriality principle and its hardly operative practice on the ground, with particular attention to European cases. An additional theme reveals itself in the articles: the ambiguity of minority recognition politics. This introductory article briefly presents these two common themes, followed by an outline of three recent proposals discussed especially in Eastern Europe that seek to bypass the controversial territorial autonomy model: cultural rights in municipalities with a “substantial” proportion of minority members; the cultural autonomy model; and European regionalism and multi-level governance.

Inadequate and Adequate Readers' Performance on a Dichotic Listening Task

The performance of inadequate (19 boys, 8 girls) and adequate (14 boys, 16 girls) readers in Grade 3 was compared on a dichotic listening task involving conflicting pairs of nonsense syllables. Both groups were more efficient in reporting correctly the material presented to the right ear than to the left ear. Adequate readers performed significantly better than inadequate readers. When the effects of the articulatory features of the stimuli were examined in subjects' performance, the important difference between the two groups was associated with the features of voicing and unvoicing of the initial consonants.