Browsing by Author "Psaltis, Charis"
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Asymmetries in peer interaction: The effect of social representations of gender and knowledge asymmetry on children's cognitive development
Zapiti, Anna; Psaltis, Charis (2012)This study examines the role of social representations of gender and knowledge as sources of asymmetry on the features of children's interactions as well as on their cognitive development. The research was carried through ...
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Blocking the solution: <b>S</b> ocial representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations
Avraamidou, Maria; Psaltis, Charis (2019)This paper first identifies representations of threats in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers related to the negotiations for a Cyprus settlement. Then, it identifies how alternative representations to these core representations of ...
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Collective memory, social representations of intercommunal relations, and conflict transformation in divided Cyprus
Psaltis, Charis (2016)The paper discusses the main findings of a line of research that explored the social representations of the Cyprus issue and its history as well as intercommunal relations by Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in the ...
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Commentary: On the inertia of Social Representations.
Psaltis, Charis (2010)
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Communication and the construction of knowledge or transmission of belief: The role of conversation type and behavioral style.
Psaltis, Charis (2005)In this paper it is proposed that a central topic of inquiry in the study of social knowledge should be the clarification of the conditions of communication that are likely to lead to the attainment of knowledge rather ...
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Communication and the microgenetic construction of knowledge
Psaltis, Charis (CUP, 2015)I've always said that social psychology was responsible for the study of communication and ideological phenomena and I think that when studying representations, we are actually studying communication. Serge Moscovici, 1995 ...
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Conservation and conversation types: Forms of recognition and cognitive development
Psaltis, Charis; Duveen, G. (2007)While the productive role of social interaction between peers in promoting cognitive development has been clearly established, the communicative processes through which this is achieved is less clearly understood. Earlier ...
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The constructive role of asymmetry in social interaction
Duveen, G.; Psaltis, Charis (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2012)
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The constructive role of gender asymmetry in social interaction: Further evidence
Psaltis, Charis (2011)Two hundred and sixty-four children aged 6.5-7.5 years (first graders) took part in a pre-test, interaction, and post-test experiment working on a spatial transformation task known as the 'village task'. Cognitive progress ...
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Contested symbols as social representations: The case of Cyprus
Psaltis, Charis; Beydola, Tahir; Filippou, Giorgos; Vrachimis, Nektarios (Springer International Publishing, 2014)This chapter examines symbols as social representations and specifically focuses on the ways that symbolic meanings of cultural artifacts relating to intergroup conflict vary as a function of the quality of social relations ...
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Culture and social representations: A continuing dialogue in search for heterogeneity in social developmental psychology
Psaltis, Charis (2012)In this commentary on Jahoda (2012) and Moghaddam (2012), I discuss the problem of the reification of culture from a social representations perspective and argue that social representations as a notion overcomes many of ...
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Formerly mixed villages in Cyprus: representations of the past, present and future.UNDP-ACT
Lytras, Eleni; Psaltis, Charis (AHDR, 2011)
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From the epistemic to the social-psychological subject: The missing role of social identities, asymmetries of status, and social representations: Commentary on Sorsana and Trognon
Psaltis, Charis (2011)Sorsana and Trognon [this issue] discussed the various representations of the subject of cognitive development that have been formed over the years since the seminal work of Jean Piaget. The terminology they used to describe ...
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Gender and Cognition
Psaltis, Charis; Zapiti, Anna (2016)
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Genetic Social Psychology: From Microgenesis to Ontogenesis, Sociogenesis... and back
Psaltis, Charis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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History educators in the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot community of Cyprus: perceptions, beliefs and practices
Psaltis, Charis; Lytras, Eleni; Costache, Stefania (AHDR, 2011)
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History Teaching in Cyprus.
Makriyianni, Chara; Psaltis, Charis; Latif, D. (Wochen Schau Wissenschaft, 2011)
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The Importance of Social Relations for Human and Societal Development
Psaltis, Charis; Gillespie, A.; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2015)
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Interaction, communication and development : psychological development as a social process
Psaltis, Charis; Zapiti, Anna (Routledge, 2014)
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Intergroup Contact and the Mediating Role of Intergroup Trust on Outgroup Evaluation and Future Contact Intentions in Cyprus and Northern Ireland
McKeown, Shelley; Psaltis, Charis (Educational Publishing Foundation, 2017)It is well supported that intergroup contact reduces prejudice and that positive contact can increase trust and improve attitudes between groups in conflict. In segregated societies, however, contact is often difficult or ...