Alexander Krupnov

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Alexander Krupnov

Doctor of Psychological Sciences

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Scientific interests:

personality temperament personality traits activity self-regulation individual differences system-functional approach

1966

Graduated from Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute, specialty - “Russian language and literature”.

1971

Candidate thesis on “Dynamic characteristics and their electroencephalographic correlates” was defended in the Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. The degree of Candidate of Psychological Sciences was awarded.

1971 - 1972

Senior lecturer, Department of Psychology, Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute.

1973 - 1984

Head of the Department of Psychology of the Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute.

1975

The academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology was awarded.

1980 - 1985

Headed the Ural Society of Psychologists under the USSR Academy of Sciences.

1985

Doctoral thesis on “Psychophysiological analysis of individual differences in human activity” was defended in the Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. The degree of Doctor of Psychological Sciences was awarded.

1987

The academic title of Professor at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology RUDN was awarded.

1990 - 2010

Head of the Department of Social and Differential Psychology RUDN.

1997

A corresponding member of the International Teacher’s Training Academy of Sciences.

1997

Honorary worker of higher education of Russia.

2000

A full member of the International Teacher’s Training Academy of Sciences.

2010 - 2018

Professor of the Department of Social and Differential Psychology RUDN University.

2018 - present

Professor-consultant of the Department of Social and Differential Psychology RUDN University.

Teaching

Reads the course “System studies of personality and individuality properties” to RUDN post-graduate students.

The author of the following study guides:

Krupnov A. I., Novikova I. A., Shlyakhta D. A. Complex studies of personality properties: theory and practice. Study guide for graduate students studying in the specialty 37.06.01 “Psychological Sciences” / Moscow, 2017. 220 p.
The study guide considers the history and the main conceptual provisions of the system-functional approach to the study of personality properties, presents an eight-component model of the analysis of personality properties, analyzes the main directions of empirical research and practical developments carried out in line with this approach. In addition, the study guide includes a list of dissertation research performed on the basis of a system-functional approach; description and programme of the course “System studies of personality and individuality”; programme of correction and self-regulation of personality properties on the example of sociability; texts of methods for psychodiagnostics of system-functional properties of personality. The study guide is primarily intended for post-graduate students enrolled in the specialty 37.06.01 “Psychological Sciences” and studying the course “Systemic research of personality and individuality”. The materials presented in the study guide are of interest to students, postgraduate students, professors, researchers interested in current problems of modern general, differential, age psychology, psychology of personality.
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Science

Natural (neurophysiological) activity of the subject in the field of differential psychophysiology: psychomotor, intellectual, volitional, communicative was developed.
Electroencephalographic correlates of natural (neurophysiological) activities of the subject in the frontal and occipital regions of the brain was revealed. Demonstrated that neurophysiological regulation of human activity is carried out mainly by the frontal regions of the brain.
A productive model of holistic analysis of human actions, allowing to make an individual program of correction of personal properties was proposed. Their structure was analyzed and a comparative characteristic of psychomotor, intellectual, communicative human actions, based on the unity of their motivational, emotional, volitional, dynamic and productive-productive characteristics was given.
A new three-dimensional structure of human temperament, including mental activity, emotionality and selectivity was proposed.
The concept of the system-functional nature of personality properties was developed. In contrast to the atomic, one-sided interpretation of personal properties, a holistic, multidimensional-functional model of the organization of personality properties was proposed. It includes motivational, cognitive, emotional, volitional, dynamic and productive-evaluative components.

Scientific interests

Differential psychophysiology;
General psychology;
Psychology of personality and individuality.

Krupnov A.I., Novikova I.A., Kozhukhova Y.V. System-Functional Model of Personality Traits Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2013. Vol. 2. No 9. P. 407-413

The article presents the theoretical basis and the essence of the System-Functional Model of the Personality Traits. This Model is based on the major theoretical propositions and constructs formulated in Russian psychology. The System-Functional Model of the organization of the personality traits, including two subsystems (motivational-semantic and regulatory-dynamic), eight components and sixteen variables which has been realized in the complex researches of sociability, persistence, inquisitiveness, self-organization (orderliness), responsibility, initiative, diligence, confidence, aggressiveness in various age, gender, professional, ethnic groups is described in detail. The system-functional model of the organization of the personality traits has been realized in the complex studies of sociability, persistence, inquisitiveness, self-organization (orderliness), responsibility, initiative, diligence, confidence, aggressiveness in various age, gender, professional, ethnic groups. The examples of concrete comparative empirical research are submitted and their basic results are analyzed.

Krupnov A.I., Kozhukhova Yu.V., Vorobyeva A.A. Persistence and academic achievement in foreign language in natural sciences students. Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика. 2017. Т. 14. № 2. С. 143-154.

The article discusses the results of empirical study of the association between variables of persistence and academic achievement in foreign languages. The sample includes students of the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Natural Science at the RUDN University (n = 115), divided into 5 subsamples, two of which are featured in the present study (the most and the least successful students subsamples). Persistence as a personality trait is studied within A.I. Krupnov’s system-functional approach. A.I. Krupnov’s paper-and-pencil test was used to measure persistence variables. Academic achievement was measured according to the four parameters: Phonetics, Grammar, Speaking and Political vocabulary based on the grades students received during the academic year. The analysis revealed that persistence displays different associations with academic achievement variables in more and less successful students subsamples, the general prominence of this trait is more important for unsuccessful students. Phonetics is the academic achievement variable most associated with persistence due to its nature, a skill one can acquire through hard work and practice which is the definition of persistence. Grammar as an academic achievement variable is not associated with persistence and probably relates to other factors. Unsuccessful students may have difficulties in separating various aspects of language acquisition from each other which should be taken into consideration by the teachers.