Open AccessSuggestibility and susceptibility to information and psychological influence of law enforcement officers: possibilities of psychodiagnostic assessment
Author(s) -
VIKTORIYA Y. KURDYUKOVA,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vedomosti ugolovno-ispolnitelʹnoj sistemy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2307-0382
DOI - 10.51522/2307-0382-2021-235-12-61-70
Subject(s) - suggestibility , phenomenon , psychology , law enforcement , typology , empirical research , relevance (law) , work (physics) , enforcement , relation (database) , applied psychology , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , law , data mining , sociology , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , political science , anthropology
The article examines the relevance of the problem of studying the phenomenon of suggestibility as a factor of exposure to information and psychological influence in the modern information society in relation to the activities of law enforcement officers. The subject of the article is the methods of psycho-diagnostic assessment of suggestibility as a factor of susceptibility to information and psychological influence. The aim of the study is to analyze the features of the theoretical and empirical research of the suggestibility phenomenon and to determine the possibilities of its psycho-diagnostic assessment within the framework of the activities of practical psychologists of the law enforcement system. The methodological basis of the work was formed by general scientific and formal-logical research methods: analysis, synthesis, induction, generalization, typology and classification. As a result of the work carried out, the terminological apparatus was clarified within the framework of the problem set and the boundaries of the concept of suggestibility with related phenomena were determined. A theoretical review of the existing psycho-diagnostic tools for determining the degree of suggestibility (hypnotizability) is made: diagnostic methods for empirical research of the phenomenon that are found in scientific literature are analyzed and presented, and the author's classification of existing methods for determining the degree of suggestibility for various grounds is made. Conclusions are drawn about the possibility of using timely diagnostics and assessment of the degree of suggestibility of law enforcement officers using the methods described in the article, as well as about further preventive and corrective work with employees aimed at reducing exposure to information and psychological impact and the formation and strengthening of information and psychological stability, which will affect positively the efficiency of the law enforcement system. Key words: law enforcement officers, susceptibility to information and psychological influence, information and psychological stability, suggestibility, hypnotizability, suggestibility, suggestibility tests, methods for determining suggestibility, psychological experiment.