Complicology: Study of Developing, Diagnosing and Destructive Difficulties
English translation of selected chapters of the book: Poddiakov A. Komplikologiya: sozdanie razvivayushchikh, diagnostiruyushchikh i destruktivnykh trudnostei. Moscow: Publishing House of HSE, 2014. ISBN 978-5-7598-1088-9
54 Pages Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Date Written: August 16, 2015
Abstract
Psychological studies are overwhelmingly concentrated on how people solve tasks and cope with problems and difficulties, but not on how and why they create them. And yet how an individual deals with problems and in general how they can be coped with depends to a large degree on the essence and nature of the difficulties and on how and for what purpose the difficulties and problems are created. This book will look at the origins and activities aimed at creating difficulties and problems. It focuses on three main types of difficulties that people create for one another: destructive difficulties seeking to cause damage (in the context of confrontation and competition); constructive difficulties aimed at helping the other subject to develop (for example, instructional problems in various areas); and diagnosing difficulties aimed at exploring the potential of another subject (tests, assignments, informal tests, etc.). The author proposes a new field of study called complicology, or the study of the creation of difficulties, their aims, implementation, responses to them and how the difficulties are coped with.
Keywords: complicology, creating problems, creating difficulties, coping, problem solving
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