Charis PsaltisProfessor of social and developmental psychology

About me

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 of the Cyprus Association of Social Psychologyand founder and director of the Univeristy of Cyprus Centre for Field Studies.