Yuliya Gippenreyter

Yuliya Borisovna Gippenreiter (born March 25, 1930, in Moscow) is a contemporary Russian psychologist and professor at Moscow State University. Her fields of research include experimental psychology (the psychology of perception, the psychology of attention, psychophysiology of movement), systemic family psychotherapy, and neuro-linguistic programming. She is the author of numerous publications on psychology.

She was born on March 25, 1930, in Moscow. In 1953, she graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University. In 1975, she received the degree of Doctor of Psychological Sciences, and in 1978 she was awarded the title of Professor of Psychology. As of 2010, she is a professor in the Department of General Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. She has been married twice. Her first husband was her cousin, Vadim Yevgenyevich Gippenreiter; her second husband was the mathematician Aleksey Nikolayevich Rudakov. She has three children. The two elder daughters are from her first marriage, and the third child is from her second. Father: B. S. Gippenreiter, psychologist and teaching methodologist in the field of physical education. Older brother: E. Gippenreiter.

Yuliya Borisovna’s candidate dissertation (supervised by Aleksey Nikolayevich Leontyev), defended in 1961, proposes and tests a new method for measuring the degree of development of pitch hearing, which is the basis of human musical hearing, and shows that in complicated conditions for evaluating the pitch of sounds of different timbres, vocalization (external and internal) and training in it provide significant help. The work made it possible to substantiate the assumption that a child’s mastery of timbre language may hinder the development of musical hearing, from which it follows that special attention must be paid to the development of a child’s musical hearing during the period when he or she is mastering Russian speech (at the age of 1–2 years).

In the work “On the Movement of the Human Eye,” various types of eye movement are studied and described in the context of human activity, and the dependencies of their characteristics on the tasks in which they are involved are described