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Psychology Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster
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Research Interests

Selected publications

Subbotsky, E. (1993) Foundations of the mind. Children's understanding of reality. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.

Subbotsky, E. (1993). The birth of personality. The development of independent and moral behaviour in preschool children. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Subbotsky, E. (1996). The child as a Cartesian thinker. Children's reasonings about metaphysical aspects of reality. Hove,East Sussex: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis.

Subbotsky, E. (1997). Explanations of unusual events: phenomenalistic causal judgements in children and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 13-36

Subbotsky, E. (1995) The development of pragmatic and nonpragmatic motivation. Human Development, 38, 217-34

Subbotsky, E. (1996). Explaining impossible phenomena: object permanence beliefs and memory failures in adults. Memory, 4, 2, 199-233

Subbotsky, E. (1997). Understanding the distinction betweensensations and physical properties of objects by children and adults. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 20, 2, 321-47

Subbotsky, E. (1999). The individual consciousness as a system of realities. In A.E. Voyskunsky, A.N. Zhdan & O.K. Tikhomirov (eds). Traditions and perspectives of the activity approach in psychology. Moscow:  Smysl publ., 125-160.

Subbotsky, E. 2000 Phenomenalistic reality: The developmental perspective. Developmental Review 20 438-474 E.V.

Subbotsky E.  (2000). 'Causal reasonings and behaviour in children and adults in a technologically advanced society: Are we still prepared to believe in magic and animism?' In P.Mitchell & K.J.Riggs (Eds.) 'Children's reasoning and the mind', Psychology Press, 327-347.

 Subbotsky, E. (2000). 'Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: The fight for dominance.' In K. Rosengren, C.N. Johnson, & P.L. Harris (Eds.) Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.

Subbotsky, E. (2001). Causal explanations of events by children and adults: Can alternative causal modes coexist in one mind?  British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 23-46

Subbotsky, E. & Quinteros, G. (2002). Do cultural factors affect causal beliefs? Rational and magical thinking in Britain and Mexico. British Journal of Psychology, 93, 519-543.

Subbotsky, E. (2004). Magical thinking in judgments of causation: Can anomalous phenomena affect ontological causal beliefs in children and adults? British Journal of

Developmental Psychology (2004), 22, 123–152

Subbotsky, E. (2004). Magical thinking -- Reality or illusion. The Psychologist, 17, 6, 336-339.

Subbotsky, E. (2005). The permanence of mental objects: Testing magical thinking on perceived and imaginary realities. Developmental Psychology, 2005, 41, 2, 301-318.

Subbotsky, E. (2006). The self-constructing mind. Moscow:  Smysl publ.

Subbotsky, E. (2007). Children's and adults' reaction to magical and ordinary suggestion: Are suggestibility and magical thinking psychologically close relatives? British Journal of Psychology, 98, 547-574.

Subbotsky, E. (2009). Can magical intervention affect subjective experiences? Adults' reactions to magical suggestion. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 517-537.

Subbotsky, E. (2010). Curiosity and exploratory behavior toward possible and impossible events in children and adults. British Journal of Psychology, 2010, 101, 481-501.

Subbotsky, E., Hysted, C., & Jones, N. (2010). Watching films with magical content facilitates creativity in children. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 111, 261-277

Subbotsky, E., & Slater, E. (2011). Children's discrimination of fantastic vs realistic visual displays after watching a film with magical content. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112, 603-609.

Subbotsky, E., & Matthews, J. (2011). Magical thinking and memory: Distinctiveness effect for TV commercials with magical content. Psychological Reports, 109, 1-11.

Subbotsky, E. (2011) The ghost in the machine: Why and how the belief in magic survives in the rational mind. Human Development, 54, 126-143.

Subbotsky, E. (2012). Development of moral foundation of action: The role of the narrative function of language. In Leontiev, D. A., (Ed), "Motivation, consciousness and self-regulation", Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2012.

Selected grants

-Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award, Germany, 1990-1991
-The development of object permanence beliefs and memory in children and adults (Royal Society, British Academy, together with Dr. Olga Chesnokova, Moscow University, 1997-98).

Memberships

The British Psychological Society:
Charted Psychologyst, Associated Fellow of the BPS (CPsychol AFBPsS)
The BPS Division for Academics, Researchers and Teachers:
Full Member


                                                                                           January 2012
                CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:            Eugene V. Subbotsky
Current and past posts:
            –Reader in Developmental Psychology, Lancaster University, Psychology Department, VIII 1994 – present time.
            –Lecturer, Lancaster University, Department of  Psychology, IX.1991 – VIII 1994
            –Visiting Researcher, Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Konstanz, Germany, III.1990 –     IX. 1991
            –Docent of Psychology, Moscow University, Psychological Department, XI.1981–III.1990
            –Senior Teacher of Psychology, Moscow University, XII.1975–XI.1982
            –Research Assistant, Moscow University, VI.1975--XII.1975
Academic and professional qualifications:
            –Moscow State University, Diploma of Psychology, X.1967 -- VI.1972
            –Moscow State University, Candidate of Psychology,-- X.1972–VI.1975
            –Moscow State University, Doctor of Psychology, 1985
Awards:
                                    - Alexander von Humboldt foundation award, Germany, 1990-1991
                                    - Royal Society, UK(together with Dr. O.Chesnokova)1997
                                    - British Academy, UK(together with Dr. O.Chesnokova)1998
                    

Courses taught:    
            
            –Moral development in preschool childhood (4L2S,  undergr.)
            –Child development in diverse cultures (4L2S,  undergr.)
            –Vygotsky's tradition in psychology  (10L10S, undergr.)
            –Child's personality: The development of executive function, moral motivation and causal beliefs (MSc, 25 hours,                                           postgr.)
            –Psychological reality: structure and development  (10L10S, undergr.)
Contributions to tutoring and lecturing:
            –Developmental psychology (PSYCH 205 core course)
           





BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
NN Title (Language) Publisher. year of publ. Coauthors
1 Psychology of partnership in preschoolers (Russ) Moscow: Moscow Univ. Publ. 1976
2 Arising of personality (Russ) Moscow: Znanije Publ. 1978
3 Golden age of childhood (Russ) Moscow: Znanije Publ. 1981
4 Problems of personality genesis (Russ) Moscow: VINITI Publ. No. 6632–83 Dep. 1983
5
 A child explains the world (Russ)
 Moscow: Znanije Publ.
 1985
6
 Child discovers the world (Russ)
 Moscow: Prosveschenije Publ.
1991
7
 Foundations of the mind. Children's understanding of reality (Engl)
 Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Weatsheaf, and Cambridge, Massachusettes: Harvard University Press
 1992
8
 The birth of personality. The development of independent and moral behavior in preschool children
 Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Weatsheaf
 1993
9
 The child as a Cartesian thinker. Children's reasonings about metaphysical aspects of reality
 Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis
 1996
10The self-constructing mind (Russ)Moscow: Mysl Publ.2006
11Magic and the MindNew York: Oxford University Press 2010
12Genesis of personality: Theory and experimentMoscow: Mysl Publ.2010


                                                                                 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
NN Title (language) Journal Coauthors
1 Investigation on the development of conscious action.Part III. (Russ) Novye Issledovanija v Psikhologii i Vizrastnoj Phisiologii (New Studies in Psychology & Physiology of Age)Moscow Pedagogica Publ.1972. 2. 22–27 Luria A. R.
2 Investigation on the development of conscious action.Part IV. (Russ.) Same issue. p.28–32 Luria A.R.
3 Investigation on the development of conscious action. Part V.(Russ) Novye Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ.1973. 1. 37–39 Luria A.R.
4 The child's attitude towards a partner in the course of conducting programmed behaviours. (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1974. 5. 156–162
5 Investigation of psychological mechanisms of the programmed behaviours in preschoolers. (Russ) Psikhologicheskije Issledovanija (Psychological Research).Moscow. Moscow Univ.Publ.1974. 6. 147–157
6 Research on moral development in psychology abroad.(Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1975.6.149–156
7 Development of the critical attitude towards a partner in the child (Russ.) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology).1976. 2. 106–114
8 The genesis of moral behaviour in preschoolers. Part I. (Russ.) Novyje Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ. 1977. 1. 48–53
9 The genesis of moral behaviour in preschoolers. Part II. (Russ) Same edition. 1977. 2.45–49
10 The genesis of moral behaviour in preschoolers.Part III.(Russ) Same edition. 1977. 2. 50–52
11 Research on altruistic and helping behaviour in psychology abroad (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1977. 2. 164–74
12 Investigation of motivational structures in the child (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University.Psychology series). 1977. 1. 62–72
13 The genesis of moral actions in the child (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14.Psikhologija (The bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1978. 3. 13– 25
14 To the partiality of the child's judgement (Russ.) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1978. 2. 81–90
15 Some perspectives in the research on personality (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii.(Questions of Psychology).1979. 4. 35–46 Asmolov A.G.
Bratus B.S. Zeigarnik B.V. PetrovskiV.A. Kharash A.U. Tsvetkova L.S
16 The style of social interaction as a way of personality development (Russ.) Psikhologo–Pedagogicheskije Problemy Obschenija (Psychological–Pedagogical problems of Communication).Moscow. Pedagogica Publ.1979. 80–95
17 Forming moral action in a child (Russ.) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1979. 3. 47–55
18 Forming altruistic behaviour in preschoolers (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series).1979. 2. 36–47
19 Childhood in diverse cultures (Russ.) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology).1979. 6. 142–52
20 The impact of the style of social interaction on the development of independent behaviour in preschoolers. Part I. (Russ.) Novyje Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ. 1980. 2. 36–39 Drobotova E.V.
21 The impact of the style of social interaction on the development of independent behaviour in preschoolers. Part II. (Russ.) Novyje Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ. 1980. 2. 40–42 Drobotova E.V.
22 The genesis of personality in a preschool child and the style of social interaction (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1981. 2. 68–78
23 Enhancing moral behaviour in preschoolers in a psychological–pedagogical experiment (Russ.) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1981. 2. 56–65
24 The role of positive versus negative communicative experience in the development of altruistic behaviour in preschoolers (Russ.) Voprosy Psikhologii Obschenijai Poznanija Lud'mi drug druga (Problems of Communication and Social Cognition)– Krasnodar. 1981.159–69
25 The impact of positive and negative models on the child's moral behaviour. Part I. (Russ) Novyje Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ. 1982. 1. 33–36 Philippovskaya O.V.
26 The impact of positive and negative models on the child's moral behaviour. Part II. (Russ) Novyje Issledovanija v Psikhologii (New Studies in Psychology) –Moscow. Pedagogica Publ. 1982. 1. 37–39 Philippovskaya O.V.
27 Of some criteria of the child's psychological preparedness for school education (Russ) Formirovanije Shkol'noj Zrelosti Rebenka (The Development of the Psychological Preparedness for School in a Child). Tallin. 1982. 40–44
28 The book about Kurt Levin's theory (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1982. 2. 151–52
29 Moral development of a preschool child (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1983. 4. 29–38
30 Preschool children's perception of unusual phenomena (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1984. 1. 17– 31
31 The genesis of independent behaviour in preschoolers under the 'mixed' style of social interaction (Russ.) Moscow.VINITI Publ. 1984. No.3776–84 Dep. Semenova T.S.
32 The history of childhood: ethnography and psychology (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1984. 3. 162-164
33 The child's conception of the relationships between bodily and mental phenomena (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1985. 2. 38–52
34 Some characteristics of the child's concepts about human mind (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1986. 5.45–53
35 The child's judgements about existence (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. 1986. 4. 8–20
36 Personality. Three aspects of investigation (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. 1987. 3. 3–17
37 The origins of morality (Russ)
 Detskaja Literatura (Literatura for children). 1987. 2. 2–6
38 From the imitation to nonconformity (Russ) Semija i Shkola (Family and School). 1987. 12.17–19
39 The development of object–permanence concept in the child (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1987. 6.139– 149
40 Rational and phenomenal perception of some relationships between the objects by preschoolers (Russ) Voprosy Psikhologii (Questions of Psychology). 1988. 2. 58–69
41 The conceptions of object permanence in preschoolers (verbal and actual behaviour (Russ) Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1988. 3. 56–69
42 What is inside? The reality and the fantasy in the child's thinking(Russ) Detskaja Literatura (Literatura for children).1988. 3. 53–55
43 Cartesian ideas in children's minds (Russ) Philosophskaja i Sotziologicheskaja Mysl' (Philosophical and Sociological Thought).–Kiev.1989. 1. 43–49
44  The genesis of consciousness and the rational foundations of the mind(Russ)
 Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 14. Psikhologija (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series). 1989. 1. 63– 76
45 Personality development and the style of social interaction (Chinese) The studies if moral education in the USSR – Tayuan. Shanxi. China. 1982. 207–226
46 The development of objective attitude towards people in young and preschool  children (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1976. 4. 2
47 Children's behaviour in conflict situations (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1976. 4. 2
48 Zur fruhen Ontogeneze der steuerden Funktion der Sprache (Germ.) Die Psychologie des 20 Jahrhunderts. Zurich: KinderVerlag. 1978. 1032–1048 Luria A.R.
49 The development of moral behavior in preschoolers in a psychological–pedagogical experiment (Engl.) Soviet Psychology.1981. 20. 1. 62–80
50 Shaping moral action in children (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1983. 12. 1.56–70
51 Experimentalny vyskum niectorych crt osobnosti deti (Slov.) Zbornik katedry specialnej pedagogiky Universitety Komenskego. Pedagogica specialis. X. Bratislava. 1984. 9–21 Pojar V.
52 The moral development of the preschool child (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1984. 22. 3.3–19
53 Preschool children's perception of unusual phenomena (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1985. 23. 3.91–114
54 A child's conception of the relationship between bodily and mental phenomena (Engl.) Soviet Psychology. 1986. 25. 1. 61–90
55 Communicative style and the genesis of personality in preschoolers (Engl) Soviet Psychology.1987. 25. 4. 38–58
56 The preschool child's concepts about some attributes of space and time (Russ) Vestnik Moscovskogo Universiteta. Series 14.Psikhologija. (The Bulletin of Moscow University. Psychology series).1990.1. 3–13
57 The preschooler's conception of the permanence of an object (verbal and actual behaviour) (Engl) Soviet Psychology. 1990.28. 3. 42–67
58 Phenomenal and rational perception of some relations between objects by preschoolers (Engl) Soviet Psychology. 1990. 28.5 5–24
59 A life span approach to object permanence (Engl) Human Development. 1991.34. 125–137
60 Existence as a psychological problem:Object permanence in adults and preschool children (Engl) International Journal of Behavioral Development. 1991. 14.1. 67–82
61 Moral socialization of the child in the Soviet Union from birth to age seven (Engl) Parent–Child Socialization in Diverse Cultures. Annual Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology. Roopnarine J.L. & Carter D.B.(Eds).1992. p.89–105
62 The fate of stages past: Reflections on the heterogeneity of thinking from the perspective of cultural–historical psychology (Engl.) Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Psychologie. 1993.52. 2. 103-113 Cole M.
63 The formation of independent behaviour in preschoolers: An experimental analysis of conformity and independence (Engl.) International Journal of Behavioral Development. 1994.17.2.289–310
64 Object permanence in adults: a cross cultural perspective (Engl.) Psychologische Beitrage. Band 34. Heft 1/2 –Jahrg. 1992(1994) Trommsdorff G.
65 Early rationality and magical thinking in preschoolers:Space and time(Engl.) British Journal of Developmental Psychology.1994. 12.97–108
66 The development of pragmatic and non–pragmatic motivation(Engl) Human Development. 1995. 38. 217–234
67 Explaining impossible phenomena:Object permanence beliefs and memory falures in adults(Engl) Memory. 1996. 4.2.199–233
68 Vygotsky's distinction between lower and higher mental functions and recent studies on infant cognitive development(Engl) Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. 1996. 34. 2. 61–66
69 Explanations of unusual events: Phenomenalistic causal judgments in children and adults(Engl) British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 1997. 15.13–36
70 Understanding the distinction between sensations and physical properties of objects by children and adults(Engl) International Journal of Behavioral Development. 1997.20.2.321–347
71 Individual consciousness as a system of realities (Russ) In A.E.Vojskunsky A.N. Zhdan. O.K. Tichomirov (Eds).Traditions and perspectives of activity theory approach in psychology. 1999. Moscow. Smysl. pp.125-160
72 Causal reasoning and behaviour in children and adults in a technologically advanced society: Are we still prepared to believe in magic and aimism?(Engl) In P.Mitchell & K.J.Riggs (Eds). Children reasonings and the mind. 2000. Hove. East Sussex: Psychology Pess. 327-348
73 Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: A fight for dominance(Engl) In K.S.RosengrenC.N.Johnson & P.L.Harris (Eds.) Imagining the impossible. Magical Scientific and religious thinking in children. 2000.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 35-74
74 Phenomenalistic reality: The developmental perspective(Engl) Developmental Review. 2000. 20. 348-374
75 Causal explanations of events by children and adults: Can alternative causal modes coexist in one mind?(Engl) British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 2001. 19. 23-46
76 Do cultural factors affect causal beliefs? Rational and magical thinking in Britain and Mexico(Engl) British Journal of Psychology. 2002. 93.519-543 G. Quinteros
77 The work of the imagination(Engl) Infant and Child Development. 2002.11.271-278
78 The mind of an individual as a system of realities. (The computational revolution and Spirit in exile)(Engl) Unpublished manuscript
79
 Magical thinking in judgments of causation: Can anomalous phenomena affect ontological causal beliefs in children and adults?
British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2004), 22, 123–152

80
 Magical thinking -- Reality or illusion
 The Psychologist, 2004, 17, 6, 336-339
81
 The permanence of mental objects: Testing magical thinking on perceived and imaginary realities Developmental Psychology, 2005, 41, 2, 301-318
82
 Children's and adults' reaction to ordinary and magical suggestion: Are suggestibility and magical thinking psychologically close relatives?
 The British Journal of Psychology, 2007, 98, 547-574
83Dialogical communication in education: Myths and reality (Russian)Voprosy Psickologii, 2008, 6, 84-94Chesnokova O.
84Can magical intervention affect subjective experiences? Adults' reactions to magical suggestionThe British Journal of Psychology, 2009, 100, 517-537
85Curiosity and exploratory behavior toward possible and impossible events in children and adultsThe British Journal of Psychology, 2010, 101, 481-501
86Watching films with magical content facilitates creativity in childrenPerceptual and Motor Skills, 2010, 111, 261-277Hysted, C., Jones, N.
87Children's discrimination of fantastic vs realistic visual displays after watching a film with magical content. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2011, 112, 603-609.Slater, E.
88Magical thinking and memory: Distinctiveness effect for TV commercials with magical content.Psychological Reports, 2011, 109, 1-11Matthews, J.
89 The ghost in the machine: Why and how the belief in magic survives in the rational mind. Human Development, 2011, 54, 126-143.
90Development of moral foundations of action: The role of the narrative function of languageIn Leontiev, D. A., (Ed), Motivation, consciousness and self-regulation", Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2012.
91Surviving in the world of the machines: The developmental psychologist's account of magical belief in the age of scienceIn Hendrix, S.E & Shannon, T. J. (Eds) Magic and the Supernatural, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012, pp. 89-99
92Sensing the future: The non-standard observer effect on an ESP taskUnpublished manuscript, 2012
93
 Discrimination between fantastic and ordinary visual displays by children and adults
The Open Behavioural Science Journal, 2012, 6, 23-30

     
     


PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS
NN Title( language) Book of abstracts Coauthos
1 Towards a problem of relationships between concepts 'need' and 'activity'(Russ) Abstracts of reports presented at the V–th Conference of Student Scientific Societies. Moscow: Moscow Univ. Publ.1970. p.9
2 Psychological mechanisms of the interiorization of moral norms in preschoolers(Russ) Vospitanije Obuchenije i psikhicheskoje rasvitije (Upbringing Education and PsychologicalDevelopment). Abstracts of reports given at the V–th Conference of Soviet Psychologists. June 1977.Part 1. p.45
3 Activity as a style of communication(Russ) Rasvitije Ergonomiki v Systeme Dizaina (Ergonomic Development and Design). Borjomy. Georgia.1979. p.334–338
4 Shaping independent behaviour in preschoolers (Russ.) Abstracts of reports presented at the XXII–nd International Congress of Psychology. Moscow. 1981. Part 2.p.383–384
5 On some philosophical origins of the concept of personality (Russ.) Philosophsko–metodologicheskije aspekty gumanitarnich nauk (Philosophical and methodological aspects of Humanities).Moscow. 1981. p.111–15
6 Early stages of the genesis of some fundamental structures of conscious(Russ) Metodologicheskije Problemy Osnovanij Nauki (Methodological problems of the Foundation of Sciences). Kiev. Naukova Dumka Publ.1986.112–114
7 Moral behaviour as an aspect of rationality (Russ) Razional'nost' y Semiotica Povedenija(Rationality and Semiotics of Behaviour). Kiev. Naukova Dumka Publ. 1988. p.28
8 Forming creative independence in preschool children (Russ) Papers presented at the XXII International Congress of Psychology.Leipzig.1980. v.1. p.249
9 Personal computer as a means of express–diagnostic of the child's physical thinking (Engl) Abstracts of papers presented at the 3rd European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Budapest. June 1988. p.376 Matusov E.
10 Psychological aspects of existence problem (Russ) Problemy Vostrastnoj Psikhologii(Problems of Developmental Psychology).Abstracts of Reports at the 7th conference of Soviet Psychological Society.Moscow. 1989. p.64
11 Phenomenalistic and rationalistic perception of the world by preschool–age children(Engl) Abstracts of papers presented at the 4th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Stirling. Scotland.August 1990. p.3
12 Early rationality and magical thinking in preschoolers: Space and time(Engl) Abstracts of 11th Biennial Meeting of ISSBD. July 1991. Minnesota.Minneapolis. p.39
13 Cognitive behaviour in unexplainable situations: Object permanence in adults (Engl) Abstracts. British Psychological Society.Developmental Section. Annual Conference.Cambridge University. September 1991
14 Object permanence in adults: Reactions to the material object's disappearance and to its' creation 'from nothing' (Engl.) Abstracts of the 5th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. September 1992.Seville. Spain
15 The formation of independence in preschoolers: analysis of conformity and independence (Engl.) Abstracts of presentations at the XIIth Biennial meeting of the ISSBD, .July 1993.Recife. Brazil
16 Independence, anxiety and social status of the child in a classroom (Engl.) Abstracts of presentations at the XIIIth Biennial Meetings of ISSBD. 28 June– 2 July.1994. Amsterdam. The Netherlands. p.490 Packham M. & Campbell D.
17 Explanations of unusual events: phenomenalistic causal judgements in children and adults (Engl.) Abstracts. British Psychologicall society. Developmental section. Annual Conference. Portsmouth. September 1–4.1994.p.26
18 When a person dies where does the person's 'I' go? The body–mind distinction in Russian and English children Abstracts. British Psychological Society. Developmental Section.Glasgow. 8–11 September 1995.p.7
19
 Phenomenalistic causal judgements in adults: Psychological relics of psychological reality?
  Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), March 30 - April 2, 1995, Indianapolis, Indiana, Program, p.135
20
 Causal judgements and behaviours in scientific and non–scientific contexts in children and adults Abstracts. British Psychological Society. Developmental Section.Oxford. 11–13 September. 1996.p.70
21 The rationalistic proof of the existence of the Supreme Subject:Why do children and adults resist it? Abstracts. The Growing Mind. Centennerial of Jean Piaget's birth.Geneva. September 14–18. 1996. p.46
22
 Understanding the distinction between subjective and objective qualities of objects by children and adults
 Abstracts. XIVth Biennial Meetings of the Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), August 12-16, 1996, Quebec City, Canada, p.487
23
 Scientific and nonscientific causal judgements and behaviors in children and adults in a technologically advanced society
 Biennial Meeting of the SRSD, April 3-6, 1997, Washington, DC, Program, p.58
24
 Phenomenalistic and magical causal judgments and behavior in adults: are we still prepared to believe in magic?
 YIIIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, September 3-7, 1997, Rennes, France, Program, p.42
25
 Children's and adult's attitude towards magic: Do they want it to exist?
  XYth Biennial Meetings of ISSBD, July 1-4, 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Program, p.338
26 Magic, scepticism and practice:Does experience strengthen magical beliefs in children and adults? Abstracts. XVI-th Biennial Meetings of ISSBD. July 11-14. 2000. Beijing. China
27
 Object permanence beliefs and memory failures in children and adults
 Conference on memory, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, March 8-10, 2002

28
 Curiosity and exploratory behaviour toward possible and impossible events in children and adults
 The XVIIth Biennial Meeting of ISSBD, Ottawa, Canada, August 2-6, 2002
29
 Goodby to the magical world. Do children really part with magical beliefs when they become adults?
 70th Anniversary Meeting of SRCD, Tampa, Florida, April 24-27, 2003
30
 Permanence of mental objects: testing magical causation on physical and imaginary realities
 Abstracts. XVIIIth Biennial Meeting of ISSBD, July 11-15, 2004, Ghent, Belgium, p.175
31
 Can magical suggestion affect subjective realities? Effects and limits of magical thinking
 XIXth Biennial Meeting of ISSBD, 2-6 July, 2006, Melbourne, Australia
32Magical Thinking and Creativity in 4- and 6-year-old children XXth Biennial Meeting of ISSBD, 13-17 July, 2008, Wurzburg, Germany, Program, p.71Hysted, C.

Motivation, belief, and geomagnetic activity in a remote viewing task33rd International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research, Nottingham, UK, 4-6 September, 2009, Abstracts of papers, p.16Ryan, A
33Surviving in the world of the machines: The developmental psychologist's account of magical beliefs in the age of science1st Global conference "Magic & the Supernatural", Salzburg, Austria, March 15-17, 2010
34Distinctiveness effect in memory of adolescents and adults for commercial TV adverticements with magical contentSociety for Research in Child Development, Biennial Meeting, March 31 - April 2, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Program, p. 25Matthews, J

    
Research proposals for PhD supervision:

1. Magical thinking and magical beliefs in modern people

2. Moral behaviour and moral understanding

3. Methaphysical judgements in children