Modelling the Influence of RT and BBC on Cognitive Attitudes and Psychophysiological Indicators of Individuals

The information influence in the modern globalizing world is a serious challenge to the security of any state. This article presents the results of an experimental study of the way the modern Internet media affect the cognitive attitudes of individuals on the example of two leading international TV channels – RT and BBC. In order to conduct this study our team developed an experimental plan for the psychophysiological recording of deformation of cognitive attitudes under the external informational influence. The study was conducted at the Department of Psychophysiology of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod from March to May 2018. The experiment was conducted on twenty-one (21) volunteers aged from nineteen to thirty-six, the average age of the group being twenty-four. Since the largest audience of modern communication networks is the younger generation, they became the focus of the study. The authors analyzed the deformations of the cognitive attitudes of individuals to identify distinctive features of these processes.