Adamyants T.Z. Understanding in the field of Social Communication as a Mental Technology. Chelovek. 2023. 34.1.:51-67. URL: https:

Abstract

Mental technologies (techniques, methods, skills) that consciousness (mind) uses for understanding in the field of social communication are the focus of this article. In accordance with the key provisions of the semio-sociopsychology concept, in line with which the article is made, the success of understanding in the field of social communication is associated with such technologies that allow you to see in any holistic, complete communicative act  latent multi-level structures, the top of which is the author's intentionality, or constant meaning. A series of studies using the method of motive-targeted analysis allowed to designate the parameters of groups of people who differ in the quality of understanding of constant meanings in the perception of holistic, completed works. A relationship has also been found between the quality of understanding the intentionality of the author and the virtual forms through which consciousness masters the perceived work: from widespread linear to rarer multi-level, voluminous. The recorded fact of different quality of understanding in the field of social communication allowed to draw an analogy with the theory of the collective unconscious and the phenomenon of archetypes in the interpretation of G.C. Jung. Various mental technologies, which are used by large groups of people, really live in society, which affects the features of their socialization and social adaptation and, in general, the trends and vector of socially significant processes. However, thanks to the developments of Russian academic science, comprehension skills in the field of social communication can be improved; the experiments carried out show a positive trend.