Preface

The first issue of Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology for 2023 is dedicated to the problems of social psychology. Social psychology belongs to the fundamental areas of psychology, from which, along with general and clinical psychology, all psychological science has grown. Modern social psychology has given rise to numerous areas of psychological practice — organizational and political psychology, the practice of training, work in the field of education and training of leaders of modern business and the country’s political elite, and much more have come out of it.