The article examines the essence of the "tolerance" and "communicative tolerance" concepts, as well as the state and ways of forming future psychologists' communicative tolerance at a higher education institution. The authors consider tolerance, on the one hand, as respect, acceptance and understanding of a wide variety of cultures, values, forms of self-expression and the individual's self-expression, and on the other hand, as a personal quality that manifests itself in tolerance for different views, other people's opinions, external