Charis Psaltis
Charis Psaltis was born in Cyprus. He is a Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cyprus. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus (Teacher's Diploma, 1993), at the University of Cyprus (Degree in Primary Education, 1999), and at Panteion University, Athens (Degree in Psychology, 2000). He followed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2001 and PhD, 2005, in Social and Developmental Psychology). He also worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford Center for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
He published papers in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Culture & Psychology, Papers on Social Representations and Human Development.
His book with Zapiti, A. entitled "Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a social Process" was published in April 2014 by Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872.
In May 2015 the book entitled "Social Relations in Human and Societal Development" co-edited with Alex Gillespie and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
In 2014 he was invited and joined the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and in 2015 Associate Editor of the European Journal of Psychology of Education. He is a founding member and president of the Cyprus Association of Social Psychology, founder and director of the Univeristy of Cyprus Centre for Field Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Genetic Social Psychology Lab in the Depertment of Psychology of the Univeristy of Cyprus with Dr Irini Kadianaki.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Communication, Language
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Gender Psychology
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Intercommunal Relations in Cyprus Since 2003: A Social Psychological Perspective
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Journal Articles:
- Makriyianni, C., & Psaltis, C. (2007). The teaching of history and reconciliation. Cyprus Review, 19, 43-69.
- Psaltis, C. (2007). International collaboration as construction of knowledge and its constraints. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 41, 187-197.
- Psaltis, C. (2005). Communication and the construction of knowledge or transmission of belief: The role of conversation type, behavioral style and social recognition. Studies in Communication Sciences, 5, 209-228.
- Psaltis, C. (2011a) The constructive role of gender asymmetry in social interaction: Further evidence, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (2): 305–312.
- Psaltis, C. (2011b). From the Epistemic to the Social-Psychological Subject: The Missing Role of Social Identities, Asymmetries of Status, and Social Representations. Human Development, 54: 234-240.
- Psaltis, C. (2012a). Culture and Social Representations: A continuing dialogue in search for heterogeneity in social developmental psychology, Culture & Psychology, 18(3): 375–390.
- Psaltis, C. (2012b). Social Representations of Gender in Peer interaction and cognitive development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(11) : 840-851.
- Psaltis, C., & Duveen, G. (2007). Conservation and conversation types: Forms of recognition and cognitive development. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 79-102.
- Psaltis, C., & Duveen, G. (2006). Social relations and cognitive development: The influence of conversation type and representations of gender. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 407-430.
- Psaltis, C., Duveen, G., & Perret-Clermont, A. (2009). The social and the psychological: Structure and context in intellectual development. Human Development, 52, 291-312.
- Tausch, N., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., Psaltis, C., Schmid, K., Popan, J., et al. (2010). Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 99, 282-302.
- Till, K. E., Sundberg, J. Pullan , W., Psaltis, C. Makriyianni, C. Zincir Celal, R. Onurkan Samani, M. & Dowler, L. (2013). Interventions in the political geographies of walls, Political Geography
- Zapiti, A. & Psaltis, C. (2012) Asymmetries in peer interaction: The effect of social representations of gender and knowledge asymmetry on children’s cognitive development. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42 (5): 578-588. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1885.
- Zittoun, T., & Psaltis, C. (2006). Essay review of Social Interaction and the Development of Knowledge (Eds.) J. Carpendale & U. Muller (2004). The American Journal of Psychology, 119, 487-496.
- Zittoun, T., Cornish, F., Gillespie, A., & Psaltis, C. (2007). The metaphor of the triangle in theories of human development. Human Development, 50, 208-229.
- Zittoun, T., Duveen, G., Gillespie, A., Ivinson, G., & Psaltis, C. (2003). The use of symbolic resources in developmental transitions. Culture & Psychology, 9, 415-448.
Other Publications:
- Duveen, G., & Psaltis, C. (2008). The constructive role of asymmetries in social interaction. In U. Mueller, J. Carpendale, N. Budwig & B. Sokol (Eds.), Social life and social knowledge: Toward a process account of development (pp. 183-204). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Psaltis, C. (2011). Intergroup trust and contact in transition: A social representations perspective on the Cyprus conflict. In I. Markova & A. Gillespie (Ed.), Trust and conflict: Representation, culture and dialogue. UK: Rutledge.
- Psaltis, C. & Lytras, E.& Costache, S. (2011c). History Educators in the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Community of Cyprus: Perceptions, Beliefs and Practices. UNDP-ACT. ISBN: 978-9963-703-05-0. (Translation in Turkish ISBN: 978-9963-8991-5-9, Translation in Greek, ISBN: 978-9963-703-06-07)
Courses Taught:
- PSYCH 101: Developmental Psychology I
- PSYCH 102: Social Psychology I
- PSYCH 315: Intergroup Relations and Social Representations
- PSYCH 332: Social Psychology of Cognitive Development
- PSYCH 637: Psycho-Social Development/Cross-Cultural Psychology
- PSYCH 653: Intercultural Themes in Educational Psychology
Charis Psaltis
Department of Psychology
University of Cyprus
65, Kallipoleos Avenue
Nicosia
Cyprus
- Phone: +357 22 892077
- Fax: +357 22 892071