Social moods as a politico-psychological phenomenon
The article analyzes the nature and specifics of social moods from a point of view of interdisciplinary methodology of political psychology as a scientific nexus of psychology and political science. A politico-psychological analysis of social moods in the conditions of global turbulence and uncertainty caused by social and economic cataclysms, pandemics, oil market volatility, unemployment, protests and transformation of political systems and consequences of globalisation, climate change and erosion of world order is stressed. It is concluded that social moods in Russia and the European Union in the first half of 2020 manifest the tendencies of reassessment of the economic, political and international “rules of game” towards greater socialization, humanization of economic politics, public opinion consideration when making political decisions and democratization of political process. All that strengthens the social component of politics, allowing to suggest that political parties with ecological, social and humanistic agendas will gain greater influence in European countries.