
	Conflict Studies / nota bene Reference: Vedernikova M.I. Objective and subjective factors of Europe's perception of Russia // Conflict Studies / nota bene. 2016. № 1. P. 79-85. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=67665 Vedernikova M.I. Objective and subjective factors of Europe's perception of Russia Abstract: The article analyzes international conditions that influence the image of Russia, and sheds light on the psychological mechanisms of its perception in the EU. Attention is focused on the analysis of objective and subjective factors of constructive and negative perception of Russia and its leader. The author examines status conflicts, as well as the methods and tools for purposeful misrepresentation of Russia's image in Europe. Aside this, the author provides examples of studies of Russia's image by European scientists. The author focuses attention on the influence of the image of a political leader in the formation of the image of a state. The methodological basis of this study includes analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation. Aside from that, the author employs the interdisciplinary approach. The novelty of this work is based on a detailed examination of the influence of psychological mechanisms on the perception of the image of a state on the background of globalization. The author reaches the conclusion that a negative image may be the result of not only objective factors, but subjectove factors, as well. Keywords: state image, image perception, status conflict, image, perception factors, European countries, perception of Russia, stereotypes, EU This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Hamilton D., Trolier T. Stereotypes and stereotyping: An overview of the cognitive approach. // Prejudice, discrimination, and racism / Ed. by F. Dovidio, S. Gaertner. Orlando, FL: AcademicPress., 1986. Pp. 125-130. 2. Forsberg T. Status conflicts between Russia and the West: Perceptions and emotional biases // Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2014. Vol. 47. № 3–4. Pp. 261-268. 3. Feklyunina V. Russia's International Images and its Energy Policy. An Unreliable Supplier? // Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 64, Issue 3, 2012. P. 449–469. 4. Feklyunina V. Battle for Perceptions: Projecting Russia in the West // Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 60, Issue 4, 2008. Pp. 605-629. 5. Elias N.S., Scotson J.L.The Established and the Outsiders. L., 1965. Pp. 34-39. 6. Alekseyeva A. Sochi 2014 and the rhetoric of a new Russia: image construction through mega-events // East European Politics. Vol. 30, № 2, 2014 P. 158–174. 7. Yung K. Psikhologicheskie tipy. SPb.: «Yuventa»; M.: Izdatel'skaya firma «Progress-Univers», 1995. S. 34. 8. Feofanov O.A. Stereotip i «imidzh» v burzhuaznoy propagande// Voprosy filosofii. 1980. № 6. S.95. 9. Psikhologiya politicheskogo vospriyatiya / Pod red. Shestopal E. B. M., 2002. S. 56. 10. Piazhe Zh. Izbrannye psikhologicheskie trudy. M.,1969.-659 s. 11. Moskovichi S. Vek tolp: istoricheskiy traktat po psikhologii mass. M., 1996. S. 45-54. 12. Mid M. Kul'tura i mir detstva. M.: Nauka, 1988.-429 s. 13. Kabachenko A.P., Kabachenko T.S. Metody sotsial'no-psikhologicheskogo vozdeystviya. – M.:MGIU, 2015. S. 431-434. 14. Dyurkgeym E. Sotsiologiya. Ee predmet, metod, prednaznachenie. / Per. s fr., sostavlenie, posleslovie i primechaniya A. B. Gofmana, M.: Kanon, 1995. — 352 s. 15. Veber M. Osnovnye sotsiologicheskie ponyatiya// Veber M. Izbrannye proizvedeniya. M.: Prosveshchenie, 1990. —808 s. 16. Bruner Dzh. Psikhologiya poznaniya M., 1977.-413 s. 17. Belokonev S. Yu. Formirovanie imidzha konkurenta v regional'nykh izbiratel'nykh kampaniyakh.: Dis…kand. polit.nauk / MGU im.M.V.Lomonosova. Fak. politologii. M., 2004. – 200 s. 18. Bergson A. Sobranie sochineniy v 4-kh tt., t. 1. M., 1992. S. 30-39. 19. Belov V.B., Maksimychev I.F. Obraz sovremennoy Rossii v Germanii / Pod red. V.B. Belova.-M.: In-t Evropy RAN: Rus. suvenir, 2010. – 66 s. 20. Bakhtin M. M. Filosofiya i sotsiologiya gumanitarnykh nauk. M., 1989. S. 53-72. 21. Artemov V.L. Pravda o nepravde: kriticheskie ocherki po sovremennoy imperialisticheskoy antisovetskoy propagande.-3-e izd., pererabotannoe i dopolnennoe. Minsk: Universitetskoe izd-vo, 1985. – 270 s. 22. Kelley H.H. Attribution in Social Interaction. Morristown, N. J. 1971. Pp. 48-50. 23. Lippmann, W. Public opinion. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1922. Pp. 54-56. 24. McAllister I., White S. Public Perceptions of Electoral Fairness in Russia // Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 63, № 4, 2011. Pp. 663–683. 25. Persson E., Petersson B. Political mythmaking and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: Olympism and the Russian great power myth // East European Politics. Vol. 30, № 2, 2014. Pp. 192–209

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