Ressentiment Reflected in Students’ Perception of the Reviews of Russian Movies

The paper represents a new understanding of ressentiment as a social attitude in intergroup relations, which arises against the background of the experience of powerlessness due to the dissonance between the perception of the moral superiority of one’s group over others, and the assessment of the attitude of others towards it as unfair. It is postulated that further empirical research should be focused on diagnosing the content and dynamics of the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of this social attitude. The study is based on the procedure and results of a written survey of students (n = 200) on the manifestations of the affective component of ressentiment in fragments of critical reviews (N = 21) of Russian films, carried out on the basis of a non-automated version of sentiment analysis with subjective ranking. The results of the study indicate that a number of characteristics of this phenomenon, formulated by scientists without taking into account the differences in the signs of ressentiment in specific social situations, as well as underestimating the specifics of its perception by actors and observers, do not quite correspond to reality. The study has shown that using the example of the technique of selecting associations of emotions and feelings with a color set, interpreted using the Luscher color test, it is possible to apply the indirect method of studying the content of the affective component of ressentiment.