Βασικές σπουδές στην Παιδαγωγική Ακαδημία Κύπρου (1993), Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (1999), Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου (2000). Μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Cambridge (MPhil, 2001 και PhD, 2005, στην Κοινωνική και Αναπτυξιακή Ψυχολογία). Μετα-διδακτορικές σπουδές στο Oxford Center for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, Τμήμα Πειραματικής Ψυχολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Oxford.

 

Άρθρα του δημοσιεύθηκαν στο Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Culture & Psychology, Papers on Social Representations και Human Development.

Το βιβλίο του με την Ζαπίτη, Α. "Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a social Process" θα σημοσιευθεί τον Απρίλιο του 2014 από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872.http://www.amazon.com/Charis-Psaltis/e/B00GK9PDFC

Το 2014 προσκλήθηκε και έγινε μέλος του Editorial Board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Είναι ιδρυτικό μέλος και Πρόεδρος του Κυπριακού Συνδέσμου Κοινωνικής Ψυχολογίας,  ιδρυτικό μέλος και διευθυντής του Πανεπιστημιακού Κέντρου Ερευνών Πεδίου και ιδρυτής και συνδιευθυντής του Εργαστηρίου Γενετικής Κοινωνικής Ψυχολογίας.

Τα ερευνητικά του ενδιαφέροντα εστιάζονται στην αλληλεπίδραση συνομηλίκων και τη γνωστική ανάπτυξη,τήν κοινωνική ψυχολογία της συνεργατικής μάθησης, τη μελέτη της επαφής και των διακοινοτικών σχέσεων στην Κύπρο, τη γενετική κοινωνική ψυχολογία, κοινωνικές αναπαραστάσεις του κοινωνικού φύλου, διαπολιτισμική και μεικτή εκπαίδευση, ανάπτυξη εθνικών ταυτοτήτων στο παιδί, και τη διδασκαλία της ιστορίας και σχέση της με τη συλλογική μνήμη.

 

 

 

Books, Papers in International Peer Reviewed Journals, Chapters in Edited Volumes, Monographs

1. Psaltis, C. & Zapiti, A. (2014). Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a social Process. UK: Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872
2. 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
3. Psaltis, C. (2012). Social Representations of Gender in Peer interaction and cognitive development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(11) : 840-851.
4. Psaltis, C. (2012). Culture and social representations: A continuing dialogue in search for heterogeneity in social developmental psychology. Culture & Psychology, 18(3), 375-390.
5. 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.
6. Psaltis, C. (2011a) The constructive role of gender asymmetry in social interaction: Further evidence, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (2), 305–312.
7. 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 2011, 54, 234-240.
8. 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.
9. Psaltis, C. (2010) ‘Commentary: On the inertia of Social Representations’, Papers on Social Representations, 19, 15.1-15.8.
10. 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
11. Psaltis, C. & Duveen, G. (2007). Conversation types and conservation: Forms of recognition and cognitive development. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 79-102.
12. 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
13. Zittoun, T.,Cornish, F. , Gillespie, A. & Psaltis, C. (2007). The metaphor of the triangle in theories of human development. Human Development, 50, 208-229.
14. Psaltis, C. (2007) International collaboration as construction of knowledge and its constraints. IntegrativePsychologicalandBehavioralScience, 41, 187-197.
15. Ψάλτης, Χ. (2008). [Psaltis, C. (2008). Mapping the field of intercommunal relations: A social-psychological analysis. International and European Policy (inGreek)] Χαρτογραφώντας το πεδίο των διακοινοτικών σχέσεων: Μια Κοινωνιο-Ψυχολογική ανάλυση. Διεθνής και Ευρωπαϊκή Πολιτική, 11, 133-143.
16. Makriyianni, C. & Psaltis, C. (2007). History teaching and reconciliation. Cyprus Review, 19, 43-69.
17. Zittoun, T. & Psaltis, C. (2006). Essay Review of Social Interaction and the Development of Knowledge (Eds.) J. Carpendale & U. Muller (2004). American Psychologist, 119, 487-496.
18. 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.
19. Zittoun, T., Duveen, G., Gillespie, A., Ivinson, G. & Psaltis, C. (2003). The use of symbolic resources in developmental transitions. Culture & Psychology, 9, 415-448.
20. Psaltis, C. (in press). Communication and the microgenetic construction of Knowledge. In (Eds.) Sammut, G. Andreouli, E. Gaskell, G. & Valsiner, J. Handbook of Social Representations. Cambridge: CUP.
21. Psaltis,C. Beydola, T. Filippou, G. & Vrachimis, N. (in press). Contested Symbols as Social Representations: The case of Cyprus. In (Eds.) P.R. Dezalia & S. Moeshcberger,Symbols that Bind, Symbols that Divide: The Semiotics of Peace and Conflict. USA: Springer.
22. Psaltis, C., Cabrera, C., Lytra, E., Filippou, G., Cakal, H. & Makriyianni, C. (in press). Oral history accounts of the former inhabitants of mixed villages in Cyprus: A social representations perspective. In H. Briel (Ed.), Oral History in Cyprus. Nicosia. University of Nicosia Press.
23. Psaltis, C. (2011). Intergroup trust and contact in transition: A social representations perspective on the Cyprus conflict. In (Ed.) I. Markova & A. Gillespie, Trust and Conflict: Representations, Culture and Dialogue, (pp. 83-104), UK: Routledge.
24. Makriyianni, C., Psaltis, C. & Latif, D. (2011). History Teaching in Cyprus. In E. Erdmann & W. Hasberg, Facing Mapping, Bridging Diversity: Foundations of a European Discourse on History Education, Part 1, (pp. 91-138), Germany: Wochen Schau Wissenschaft.
25. Psaltis, C., Lytras,E. Costache, S.& Fisher, C. (2011). Methodology, Epistemology and Ideology of History Educators Across the Divide in Cyprus. In L. Perikleous & Shemilt, D. The future of the past, Why history education matters, Nicosia, AHDR.
26. Duveen, G. & Psaltis, C. (2008). The constructive role of asymmetries in social interaction.In U. Mueller, J.Carpendale, N. Budwig & B. Sokol : Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp.183-204.
27. Ψάλτης, Χ. (2007). [ Psaltis, C. (2007). Social Development. In (Ed.) S.Georgiou, Of the Child and School. Athens: Atrapos] Κοινωνική ανάπτυξη στο (Εκδ.) Σ. Γεωργίου, Tου παιδιού και του σχολείου, Αθήνα: Ατραπός,σσ 57-84.
28. 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.
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. Λύτρα, Ε. & Ψάλτης, Χ. (2011b). Πρώην Μικτά Χωριά στην Κύπρο: Αναπαραστάσεις του Παρελθόντος, του Παρόντος και του Μέλλοντος. ISBN: 978-9963-703-23-4
33. Lytras, E. & Psaltis, C. (2011c). Kıbrıs’ta Eski Karma Köyler: Geçmişin, Bugünün ve Geleceğin Temsilleri. ISBN: 978-9963-703-24-1

 

Charis Psaltis was born in Cyprus. He is an Assistant 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" will be published in April 2014 by Routledge. ISBN: 0415643872.http://www.amazon.com/Charis-Psaltis/e/B00GK9PDFC

In 2014 he was invited and joined the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 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 founder and co-director of the Genetic Social Psychology Lab in the Depertment of Psychology of the Univeristy of Cyprus.

His research interests fall in the areas of Social interaction, learning and cognitive development, co-operative learning, Genetic social psychology, social representations of gender, intergroup contact and intergroup relations, intercultural education and integrated schools, development of national identities and history teaching and collective memory. In the last years he is developing a Genetic Social Psychological framework for the study of microgenesis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis of cognitive development and prejudice. He has studied extensively the social psychological aspects of intercommunal relations between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus.