[Characteristics of color selection in the Luscher test as indicators of a typical emotional status of pilots]. / Osobennosti tsvetovogo vybora v teste Liushera kak pokazateli tipichnogo émotsional'nogo sostoianiia letnogo sostava.

The present authors identified distinctions between colour responses of the flying personnel and the general population typical of the Walneffer-Luscher autogenic norm. The section of the series which is rejected by pilots (the last four colours) is identical to the traditional norm. The difference in the preferable section of the series (the first four colours) is that the general population gives preference to warm colours (red, yellow) whereas the flying personnel to cold (blue) colours or mixed (violet) colours. The preference of violet and green colours shown by pilots is a reflection of their emotional state which is typical for a stressful environment.

[Human cognitive activity during adaptation to short-term weightlessness]. / Poznavatel'naia deiatel'nost' lichnosti pri adaptatsii k kratkovremennoi nevesomosti

The differences in subjective sensations during the first exposure to short-term weightlessness are analyzed on the basis of the pattern of cognitive activity of test subjects and the scope of information they have received previously. The subjects with objective and productive types of cognitive behavior showed the most adequate and rapid adaptation to weightlessness. The subjects with a subjective and unproductive type of cognitive tactics exhibited great problems in adapting themselves to weightlessness, showing unusual psychic states like the "world peril" syndrome and psychic estrangement. Anticipation of the weightless environment based on the objective information previously obtained facilitated orientation and self-control in weightlessness.