“Military psychology is not developed in Armenia” (video)
Certain changes have been made in the field of the defense of the scientific thesis during these last two years. Today in the interview Atom Mkhitaryan, Vice-President of Supreme Certifying Commission, noted that they had a discussion with the people from the field of education and science and they had set new standards in the regulation of scientific degrees. “In order to be a candidate of Science, it is necessary to have more than 3 scientific articles, which should be published in any international journal. In essence, it hasn’t changed anything for the representatives of science, physics, mathematics and industry, but it is a serious problem for the humanitarian sciences, so it was decided to set for them up to six articles, and it is not necessity to be published in the international journals.” Samvel Khudoyan, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor of applied Psychology, who was also present in the meeting, expressed his anxiety over the circumstance that a lot of sciences are not still developed in Armenia. “For example, military psychology, which is so necessary in the war situation, we don’t have any candidate in the fields of Zopsychology, Neuropsychology, Economic Psychology, psycholinguistics, Psychology of Art,” he noted. To the question what the reason of this is, the psychologist noted that the protection of these scientific branches was funded during the years of the Soviet Union, but it disappeared after USSR’s collapse: “It is impossible to do something in these fields, perhaps we can find a solution with the help of Diaspora”.
