Staff Catalogue

CHARIS PSALTIS

PSALTIS CHARIS
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PROFESSOR
Department of Psychology
FEB 01 - Faculty of Economics and Management, Όροφος -2, Γραφείο 211
University Campus

 

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.

He is currently publishing a book with Brady Wagoner for Cambridge University Press relating to the theoretical framwework he is developing of Genetic Social Psychology around a social developmental account of conflict and change in Cyprus in relation to the Cyprus issue.

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.

His research interests fall in the areas of Intergroup Relations and History teaching, collective memory and historical conciousness. He has also worked on the role of Social interaction on, learning and cognitive development and co-operative learning, He is develoiping the theoretical framework of Genetic social psychology,  which is the study of the articulation of the processes of microgeneis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis of representations and knowledge. In the last years he is developing this framework in the context of deeply divided Cyprus in relation to contact between the two communities in Cyprus, the development of  prejudice in childhood and representations of the Cyprus issue. He has studied extensively the social psychological aspects of intercommunal relations between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus and has acted as an expert for the UN and Unficyp and the Council of Europein in Cyprus,  and for OSCE in relation to history teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina and IOM in relation to contact hypothesis on inclusivity promotion interventions.
 
He was the Fieldswork Manager for European Social Survey Round 9 and Fieldwork Manager and National Coordinator of Cyprus for the European Social Survey for Round 10.   He is also interested on the  issue of IDPs with other researchers he had submitted a proposal for an IDPs census to the two negotiators for facilitating the resolution of the territorial aspect of the Cyprus problem.[press link to read it]



His research interests fall in the areas of Intergroup Relations and History teaching, collective memory and historical conciousness. He has also worked on the role of Social interaction on, learning and cognitive development and co-operative learning, He is develoiping the theoretical framework of Genetic social psychology,  which is the study of the articulation of the processes of microgeneis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis of representations and knowledge. In the last years he is developing this framework in the context of deeply divided Cyprus in relation to contact between the two communities in Cyprus, the development of  prejudice in childhood and representations of the Cyprus issue. He has studied extensively the social psychological aspects of intercommunal relations between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus and has acted as an expert for the UN and Unficyp and the Council of Europein in Cyprus,  and for OSCE in relation to history teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina and IOM in relation to contact hypothesis on inclusivity promotion interventions.




 
Books

 

1. Psaltis, C. & Wagoner, B. (manuscript in preparation). Genetic Social Psychology: Understanding Conflict and Change through the lifespan. Cambridge University, new Book Series Progressive Psychology , Edited by Professor Fathali Moghaddam.

2. Psaltis, C. & Zapiti, A. (2014). Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a social Process. UK: Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872

3. Psaltis, C. Gillespie, A. & Perret-Clermont,A.N. (2015). (Eds.) Social Relations in Human and Societal Development.UK : Palgrave Macmillan.

4.Kyriakidou, F. & Psaltis, C. (2016). Psychosocial and Cognitive Development of Undergraduate University Students in Cyprus: The role of Social Relations. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

5.Psaltis, C., Carretero, M. & Cehajic-Clancy (Eds.) (2017). History Education and Conflict Transformation: Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and reconciliation. Palgrave Macmillan

Monographs

5. Psaltis, C. & Lytras, E.& Costache, S. (2011a). History Educators in the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Community of Cyprus: Perceptions, Beliefs and Practices. UNDP-ACT. ISBN: 978-9963-703-05-0.

6. Ψάλτης, Χ., Λύτρα, Ε. & Costache, S. (2011b). Οι εκπαιδευτικοί Ιστορίας στην Ελληνοκυπριακή και Τουρκοκυπριακή Κοινότητα της Κύπρου: Αντιλήψεις, Πεποιθήσεις και Παρακτικές. UNDP-ACT. ISBN: 978-9963-703-06-07

7. Psaltis, C. & Lytras, E. & Costache, S. (2011c). Kıbrıslı Rum ve Kıbrıslı Türk Toplumlarında Tarih Eğitmenleri: Algılar, İnançlar ve Uygulamalar. UNDP-ACT.ISBN: 978-9963-8991-5-9

8. Lytras, E. & Psaltis, C. (2011a). Formerly Mixed-Villages in Cyprus: Representations of the Past, Present and Future. UNDP-ACT. ISBN: 978 9963-703-22-7

9. Λύτρα, Ε. & Ψάλτης, Χ. (2011b). Πρώην Μικτά Χωριά στην Κύπρο: Αναπαραστάσεις του Παρελθόντος, του Παρόντος και του Μέλλοντος. ISBN: 978-9963-703-23-4

10. Lytras, E. & Psaltis, C. (2011c). Kıbrıs'ta Eski Karma Köyler: Geçmişin, Bugünün ve Geleceğin Temsilleri. ISBN: 978-9963-703-24-1

11. Psaltis, C and Hewstone, M. (2008). Intergroup Contact Between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The Nuffield New Career Development Fellowship. End of the Project Report (Unpublished).

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

1. Kyriakides, M., & Psaltis, C. (2023). Suppressing the expression of prejudice and prejudice reduction from childhood to adolescence: the view of genetic social psychology. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 38(1), 179-202.

2. Power, S. A., Zittoun, T., Akkerman, S., Wagoner, B., Cabra, M., Cornish, F., ... & Gillespie, A. (2023). Social psychology of and for world-making. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10888683221145756.

3. Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Vignoles, V. L., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., ... & Uchida, Y. (2023). Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. Journal of personality and social psychology.

4. Hasler, B. S., Leshem, O. A., Hasson, Y., Landau, D. H., Krayem, Y., Blatansky, C., ... & Halperin, E. (2023). Young generations’ hopelessness perpetuates long-term conflicts. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4926.

5. Psaltis, C., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., Kovras, I., & Eleftheriou, A. (2023). Role of honor, dignity, and face values in transitional justice in postconflict cyprus. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

6. Charalampidou, P., & Psaltis, C. (2022). Inventing new road paths for the contact theory through contact with a puppet (a “Syrian refugee child”) via a teacher-led intervention in a Greek primary school. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

7. Loizides, N., Psaltis, C., Morgan-Jones, E., Sudulich, L., Popp, R., & Baykiz, T. (2022). Citizens and peace mediations in divided societies: Identifying zones of agreement through a conjoint survey experiment. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(9), 1619-1649.

8. Friehs, M. T., Kotzur, P. F., Kraus, C., Schemmerling, M., Herzig, J. A., Stanciu, A., ... & Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 21277.

9. Kirchner‐Häusler, A., Schönbrodt, F. D., Uskul, A. K., Vignoles, V. L., Rodríguez‐Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., ... & Uchida, Y. (2022). Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well‐being in the Mediterranean region. Journal of personality.

10. Karayianni, C. and Psaltis, C. (2022), Tweet for peace: Twitter as a medium for developing a peace discourse in the hands of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot leaders, Online Information Review, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03-2022-0161

11. Kende, J*., Psaltis, C.*, Reiter, J., Fousiani, K., Cakal, H. and G. T. Green, E. (2021), Past and Present Intergroup Contact and Conflict Among Inhabitants of Former Mixed Villages of Cyprus: The Role of Individual and Collective Experiences in Predicting Attitudes and Trust. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12791 .* Shared first authorship.

12. Donno, D., Psaltis, C., & Zarpli, O. (2021). Extended intergroup contact in frozen conflicts: Experimental evidence from Cyprus. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 38(4), 411–433. https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942211012623

13. Ivanović, J., Žeželj, I., & Psaltis, C. (2021). (Im)moral Symbols and (Im)moral Deeds: Defensive Strategies for Coping with Historical Transgressions of Group Heroes and Villains. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1834490921991437

14. Solomou, I., Constantinidou, F., Karekla, M., Psaltis, C., & Chatzittofis, A. (2021). The COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study (C-19 ISWS) The Case of Cyprus. European Journal of Psychology Open, 12-12.

15. Psaltis, C., Cakal, H., Loizides, N., & Kuşçu Bonnenfant, I. (2020). Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process. International Political Science Review, 41(1), 138-154.

16. Pizarro, J. J., Cakal, H., Méndez-Casas, L., Da Costa, S., Zumeta, L., Gracia-Leiva, M., ... & Cavalli, S. (2020). Tell me what you are like and I will tell you what you believe in: Social representations of COVID-19 in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Papers on Social Representations, 29(2), 2-1.

17. Storz, N., Martinovic, B., Verkuyten, M., Žeželj, I., Psaltis, C., & Roccas, S. (2020). Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(1), 404-425.

18. Psaltis, C. (2020). A genetic social psychological perspective on gentrification: From Austin to Nicosia and back. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 10(1), 86-101.

19. Storz, N., Martinovic, B., Verkuyten, M., Žeželj, I., Psaltis, C., & Roccas, S. (2020). Collective Psychological Ownership and Reconciliation in Territorial Conflicts. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(1), 404-425. doi:10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1145

20. Yucel, D. & Psaltis, C. (2020). The effects of direct and indirect contact on prejudice: 2007 and 2017 results among Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. European Societies, 22(5), 610-635.

21. Psaltis, C., Cakal, H., Loizides, N., & Kuşçu Bonnenfant, I. (2020). Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process. International Political Science Review, 41(1), 138–154. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512119872057

22. Avraamidou, M, & Psaltis, C. (2019). Blocking the solution: Social representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. 2019; 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12222

23. Yucel, D., & Psaltis, C. (2019). Intergroup contact and willingness for renewed cohabitation in Cyprus: Exploring the mediating and moderating mechanisms. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219845053

24. Psaltis,C. Loizides,N. LaPierre, A. & Stefanovic, D. (2019) Transitional justice and acceptance of cohabitation in Cyprus, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42:11, 1850-1869 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1574508

25. Zezelj, I., Ioannou, M., Franc, R., Psaltis, C. & Martinovic, B. (2017). The role of inter-ethnic online friendships in prejudice reduction in post-conflict societies: Evidence from Cyprus, Serbia and Croatia, Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 386-395.

26. Smeekes, A. McKeown, S. & Psaltis, C. (2017). Endorsing narratives under threat: maintaining perceived collective continuity through the protective power of ingroup narratives in Northern Ireland and Cyprus. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 5(2), 282–300, doi:10.5964/jspp.v5i2.682

27. McKeown, S. & Psaltis, C. (2017). Intergroup Contact and the Mediating Role of Intergroup Trust on Outgroup Evaluation and Future Contact Intentions in Cyprus and Northern Ireland. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(4), 392-404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pac0000275

28. Psaltis, C. (2016). Collective memory, social representations of intercommunal relations and conflict transformation in divided Cyprus. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 22 (1): 19-27.

29. Psaltis, C. & Zapiti, A. (2016). Gender and Cognition (pp.347-349). Entry in SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology.

30. 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, 33: 52-62

31. Psaltis, C. (2012b). Culture and social representations: A continuing dialogue in search for heterogeneity in social developmental psychology. Culture & Psychology, 18(3), 375-390.

32. Psaltis, C. (2012c). Social Representations of Gender in Peer interaction and cognitive development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(11) : 840-851.

33. 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.

34. Psaltis, C. (2011a). The constructive role of gender asymmetry in social interaction: Further evidence, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (2), 305–312.

35. 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.

36. Tausch, N., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., Psaltis, C., Schmid, K., Popan, J., Cairns, E. & Hugues, J. (2010). Secondary Transfer Effects of Intergroup Contact: Alternative Accounts and Underlying Processes. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 99, 282-302.

37. Psaltis, C. (2010) ‘Commentary: On the inertia of Social Representations’, Papers on Social Representations, 19, 15.1-15.8.

38. Psaltis, C. Duveen, G & Perret-Clermont, A.N. (2009). The social and the psychological: Structure and Context in Intellectual Development. Human Development, 52: 291-312

39. Psaltis, C. & Duveen, G. (2007). Conversation types and conservation: Forms of recognition and cognitive development. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 79-102.

40. Psaltis, C. & Duveen, G. (2006). Social Relations and cognitive development: The influence of conversation types and representations of gender. European Journal of Social Psychology,36, 407-430

41. Zittoun, T.,Cornish, F. , Gillespie, A. & Psaltis, C. (2007). The metaphor of the triangle in theories of human development. Human Development, 50, 208-229.

 42. Psaltis, C. (2007a) International collaboration as construction of knowledge and its constraints. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 41, 187-197.

43. Psaltis, C. (2007b) Social research methods By Nicholas Walliman, British Journal of Educational Psychology ,77: 494-495.

44. Ψάλτης, Χ. (2008). [Psaltis, C. (2008). Mapping the field of intercommunal relations: A social-psychological analysis. International and European Policy (in Greek)] Χαρτογραφώντας το πεδίο των διακοινοτικών σχέσεων: Μια Κοινωνιο-Ψυχολογική ανάλυση. Διεθνής και Ευρωπαϊκή Πολιτική, 11, 133-143.

45. Makriyianni, C. & Psaltis, C. (2007). History teaching and reconciliation. Cyprus Review, 19, 43-69.

46. Zittoun, T. & Psaltis, C. (2006). Socialising Developmental Interactions: Essay Review of Social Interaction and the Development of Knowledge (Eds.) J. Carpendale & U. Muller (2004). American Psychologist, 119, 487-496.

47. Psaltis, C. (2005). Communication and the construction of knowledge or transmission of belief: The role of conversation type and behavioral style. Studies in Communication Sciences, 5, 209-228.

48. Zittoun, T., Duveen, G., Gillespie, A., Ivinson, G. & Psaltis, C. (2003). The use of symbolic resources in developmental transitions. Culture & Psychology, 9, 415-448.

Free to download

1. Psaltis, C., McCully, A., Agbaria, A., Makriyianni, C., Pingel, F., Karahasan, H., Carretero, M., Oguz, M., Choplarou, R., Philippou, S., Wagner, W. & Papadakis, Y. (2017). Recommendations for the History Teaching of Intergroup Conflicts. COST IS 1205 Working Group.

2. Psaltis, C., Franc, R., Smeekes, A., Ioannou, M. & Žeželj, I. (2017). Social Representations of the Past in Post-conflict Societies: Adherence to Official Historical Narratives and Distrust Through Heightened ThreatsIn (eds.) C. Psaltis, M. Carretero & S. Cehajic-Clancy. History Education and Conflict Transformation: Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and reconciliation. Palgrave Macmillan

3. Psaltis, C. (2018). The four different stances of Greek Cypriots on the solution of the Cyprus problem. Unpublished Manuscript.The four different stances of Greek Cypriots on the solution of the Cyprus problem. Unpublished Manuscript.

4. Avraamidou, M. & Psaltis, C. (2017). Αποτρέποντας τη λύση: Aπειλές, φόβοι και σημασιολογικά εμπόδια στον Ελληνοκυπριακό Τύπο από το Μοντ Πελεράν στη Διάσκεψη της Γενεύης (2016/17).

5. Ψάλτης, Χ. (2018). Τα τέσσερα διαφορετικά προφίλ Ελληνοκυπρίων όσον αφορά τη λύση του Κυπριακού προβλήματος. (Αδημοσίευτη ανάλυση)

6. Avraamidou, M, & Psaltis, C. (2019). Blocking the solution: Social representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. 2019; 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12222

7. Yucel, D., & Psaltis, C. (2019). Intergroup contact and willingness for renewed cohabitation in Cyprus: Exploring the mediating and moderating mechanisms. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/136843021984505

8. Psaltis,C. Loizides,N. LaPierre, A. & Stefanovic, D. (2019) Transitional justice and acceptance of cohabitation in Cyprus, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42:11, 1850-1869 https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1574508