Special Theme of the Issue. To the 10-Year Anniversary of the Psychology Department of NRU HSE

The paper analyses the temporal aspects of interpersonal relationships and the specific ways the factor of time plays its role in this domain. Each event in life or in social contact has its timeframe, which may be indefinite, or give it either premature or overdue status, or make it timely and urgent. Time becomes the fundamental factor of behavioral strategy choice: in every moment of relationship the interlocu-tor needs to be given time for solving own problems, not to be forestalled or interpreted prematurely. It is important to take notice of the interlocutor's emotional state in the 'here-and-now' and to be ready to invest one's own time into understanding and empathizing with the other person. In difficult situations of life it is important to achieve an active and timely coordination between the actors of their subjective time and space of their interaction, to achieve the so-called 'spatio-temporal balance' in order to coordinate their actions and construct their temporal "transspectives" and life strategies.