Economic Psychology of Personality and the Management of Socio-Economic Processes

Abstract

The article is devoted to some significant trends of economical
psychology development in the period of social and economical
transformations and indicates the practical matter of the real-world
problems, which the economic psychology deals with. The possible outlook of the development of economical and psychological investigations that have been elaborated during the last quarter of the century on a joint of personal psychology, social psychology, work and management psychology, and organizational psychology are submitted for a discussion. According to the author’s opinion, the most important areas and “growth point” of the economic psychology as a science of patterns and mechanisms of regulating personality behaviour in economic situations are performed in the article; the possible application of the results of these investigations in real life of communities and organizations is indicated as well.