Background
Petrovskaya Larisa Andreevna was born on November 13, 1937 in Voronezh in the USSR times. She was born in the family of a military pilot.
Petrovskaya Larisa Andreevna was born on November 13, 1937 in Voronezh in the USSR times. She was born in the family of a military pilot.
Petrovskaya Larisa Andreevna graduated from high school with a medal in 1955. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University in 1960.
In 1969 Petrovskaya became Candidate of philosophical sciences. She taught philosophy at the Novosibirsk Conservatory and Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Since 1972 she worked at the newly founded Social Psychology Department of the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University (became a professor in 1990). She also was a Member of the Academic Council of this faculty since 1979 and a Member of the Expert Council of the Department of Age Physiology and Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education.
In 1986 she became Doctor of psychological sciences. In 1995 she became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education. In 2000 she became a Professor Emeritus of Moscow State University. In 2006 she was a Lomonosov Prize laureate of Moscow State University.
Her prime research interests were the psychology of interpersonal communication, mechanisms of self-development, socio-psychological training. She was one of the leading experts in the field of interactive teaching methods, group discussions, and role-playing games.
Petrovskaya is called a pioneer in the development and application of active social-psychological teaching methods in Russia, which, in particular, include sensitivity training, personal growth groups, etc. She actively developed the theory and practice of socio-psychological training in Russia, and today the main achievements in this area of socio-psychological knowledge are associated with her name. Petrovskaya initiated the teaching of the theory and practice of socio-psychological training at the university. In addition to this, her research interests included problems in the psychology of interpersonal communication. It is from the works of Petrovskaya that the tradition of studying interpersonal feedback in Russian social psychology originates. Since the mid-1970s under her leadership, a number of empirical studies aimed at studying the structure of interpersonal feedback in terms of its form and content were conducted. At the heart of her scientific interests are the ideas of E. Fromm and humanistic psychology.
She is the author of about 80 scientific papers, including the monographs “Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Socio-Psychological Training” (Moscow, 1982) and “Competence in Communication: Socio-Psychological Training” (Moscow, 1989).
