Elena V. Plaksa Senior Lecturer Department of General and Clinical Psychology Kalvaryiskaia str. 9, room 731 Minsk Republic of Belarus 220004 Tel.: (+375-17) 259-70-71; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Biography Publications

Handbooks

1. The basics of psychological and pedagogical diagnostics of children with abnormal development.

Main articles

1. The research of optimistic bias for smokers.
2. The psychological analysis of smokers behavior.
3. The changes of adolescents’ representations of smoking.
4. Smoking of youth – the role of cognitive-behavioral characteristics.
5. The role of social and personal characteristics in smoking.
6. The cognitive-behavioral characteristics of smoking behavior in development of representations of smoking for nonsmokers.
7. Assimilation of positive attitudes of smoking during socialization.