The laboratory was founded in 2004 in order to support the Psychology faculty and students in the development and application of quantitative methods for psychological research and practice. It includes a sound-proof testing room, an interview/observation room and further testing rooms. The Laboratory's computing facilities include experimental design and advanced data analyses platforms including SUPERLAB, DMDX, SPSS, EQS, LISREL, and AMOS. Laboratory equipment also include a Psychophysiology Pack (BIOPACK) and an Eye Tracking device.
Since its inception, applied research conducted in the laboratory has produced a number of quality outcomes, such as psychometric instruments designed to assess cognitive and linguistic abilities in children and adults in a variety of settings (schools, special education classrooms, diagnostic centers for learning disabilities, neurology and psychiatry clinics). Tests for school-age children include batteries for the assessment of attention and executive functions, the Greek adaptation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test, tests of Spelling, Reading Fluency and Math, and the Emotional Intelligence Scale for Children. Tests designed and standardized in adult populations include the Greek version of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, the Wechsler Memory Scale, the Battery of Computerized Tests of Executive Function, the Battery of Vocabulary Assessment Tests, and the Greek version of the Difficulties of Emotional Regulation scale. Psychometric instruments developed (or adapted) and standardized in Greek populations are routinely used in patients referred for neuropsychological evaluation.
The Laboratory comprises researchers whose research interests align with the goal of promoting high-quality advanced research.
1. Social and Organizational Psychology, Leadership, Emotional capabilities at work, Cultural orientations, Emotion in social interaction
2. Psychometric testing, Measurement Theory, Personality Measurement, Measurement of Abilities, Emotional Intelligence
3. Health Psychology, Adaptation to chronic illness, Self-regulation, Stress and coping
4. Community Psychology
5. Cultural Historical Psychology, History and epistemology of psychology
(FACULTY) Manolis Dafermos (Associate Professor), Evangelos Karademas (Professor), Konstantinos Kafetsios (Professor), Theano Kokkinaki (Associate Professor), Georgios Sideridis [Associate Professor (2004-2011)], Panagiotis Simos [Professor (2004-2013)], Yannis Tsaousis (Associate Professor), Sofia Triliva (Professor). (RESEARCHERS) Dr. Spiridoula Dani (Researcher), Mrs Aspasia Papachiou (BSc, MSc, PhD. Cand.), Iouliani Pachiti, MA in School Psychology, PhD Candidate (ESR).
Research Projects (after 2010)
Improving access to mental health care and mental health literacy (MENTALLY)
Real and VIrTuAL Social Interactions-Crossroads and Reciprocities (REVITAL)
Emotions evoked by entrepreneurship as a career choice (EMO-ENTRE)
Cognitive, psychosocial, and physiological aspects of patient adaptation and well-being in autoimmune chronic diseases: A longitudinal study of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis
Publications
Triliva, S., Dani, S., Giovazolias, Th., Kafetsios, K. … Hensing, G. (2020). Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on mental health service provision: A focus group study in six countries – the MentALLY project. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 14, 16, doi.org/10.1186/s13033-020-00350-1
Zampetakis, L., Kafetsios, K., & Moustakis, V. (2017). Using emotional persuasion for changing attitudes towards entrepreneurship: An interpersonal perspective. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7, 50-54.
Zampetakis, L., Lerakis, M., Kafetsios, K., & Moustakis, V. (2017). The moderating role of anticipated affective ambivalence in the formation of entrepreneurial intent. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 12 (3), pp. 815-838. DOI 10.1007/s11365-015-0367-2
Zampetakis, L.A., Kafetsios, K., Moustakis, V. (2017). Using emotional persuasion for changing attitudes towards entrepreneurship: An interpersonal perspective. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7, pp. 50-54. 10.1016/j.jbvi.2017.03.002
Zampetakis, L.A., Kafetsios, K., Lerakis, M., Moustakis, V.S. (2017). An Emotional Experience of Entrepreneurship: Self-Construal, Emotion Regulation, and Expressions to Anticipatory Emotions. Journal of Career Development, 44 (2), 144-158. 10.1177/0894845316640898
Zampetakis, L., Lerakis, M., Kafetsios, K., & Moustakis, V. (2016). Anticipated emotions towards new venture creation: A latent profile analysis of early stage career starters. The International Journal of Management Education, 14, 1, 28-38
Hess, U., Blaison, C., & Kafetsios, K. (2016). Judging facial emotion expressions in context: The influence of culture and self-construal orientation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 55-64.
Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., Kafetsios, K., Kessler, C-L., & Hess, U. (2015). Individual differences in emotional mimicry: Underlying traits and social consequences. European Journal of Personality, 29, 512-529.
Zampetakis, L., Lerakis, M., Kafetsios, K., & Moustakis, V. (2015). Investigating the emotional impact of entrepreneurship programs. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 4, 38-41.
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2013). Effects of activated and dispositional self-construal on emotion perception accuracy. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37 (3), 191-205.
Kafetsios, K. & Nezlek, J.B. (2012). Emotion and support perceptions in everyday social interaction: Testing the “less is more hypothesis” in two different cultures. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29, 165-184.
Zampetakis, L.A., Kafetsios, K., Bouranda, N., Dewett, T., & Moustakis, V.S. (2009). On the relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 15, 6, 595-618.
Mazzuca, S., Kafetsios, K., Livi, S., & Presaghi, F., (2019). Emotion regulation, emotion contagion and relationship satisfaction in older couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 9, 2880-2895.
Kafetsios, K., Hess, U., & Nezlek, J.B. (2018). Self-construal, affective valence of the encounter, and quality of social interactions: Within and cross-culture examinations. Journal of Social Psychology, 158, 1, 82–92. Data & Method : https://osf.io/wqnnx/.
Zampetakis, L., Lerakis, M., Kafetsios, K.*, & Moustakis, V. (2015). The structure of anticipated affect: Do self-reports about future affective reactions conform to typical or maximal models? Front. Psychol. 6:1438. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01438.
Zampetakis, L. *, Kafetsios, K. *, Lerakis, M., & Moustakis, V. (2015). Investigating the role of self-construal in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Front Psychol., 6: 1085. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01085.
Hareli S, Kafetsios, K., & Hess, U. (2015). A cross-cultural study on emotion expression and the learning of social norms. In A. Fischer (Ed. Special Issue) "The Social Nature of Emotions". Front. Psychol. 6:1501. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01501.
Kafetsios, K., Andriopoulos, P., & Papahiou, A. (2014). Relationship status moderates avoidant attachment differences in positive emotion decoding accuracy. Personal Relationships, 21, 191-205.
Axelsson, M., Viktor, S.... Kafetsios K. (R&R). Mental healthcare in six European countries from a perspective of people with lived experiences- a focus group study within the MentALLY project. BMC-Health Services Research.
Hess, U., Dietrich, J., Kafetsios, K., Elkabetz, S., & Hareli, S. (2020). The bidirectional influence of emotion expression and context: Emotion expressions, situational information and real-world knowledge combine to inform observers’ judgments of both the emotion expressions and the situation. Cognition & Emotion, 34(3), 539-552 10.1080/02699931.2019.1651252
Kafetsios, K., & Hess, U. (2019). Seeing mixed emotions: Alexithymia, emotion perception bias, and quality in dyadic interactions. Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 80-85.
Kafetsios, K., Chatzakou, D. 1, Tsigilis, N. & Vakali, A., (2017). Emotional experience in face to face and computer mediated social interactions: An event sampling study. Computers in Human Behaviour, 76, 287-293.
Chatzakou, D.1, Vakali, A., & Kafetsios, K. (2017). Detecting variation of emotions in online activities. Expert Systems with Applications, 89, 318-332.
Zampetakis, L., Bakatsaki, M., Litos, Ch., Kafetsios, K. & Moustakis, V. (2017). Gender based differential item functioning of entrepreneurship related constructs. Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, 8, 451.
Hess, U., Kafetsios, K., Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., & Kessler, C. (2016). Accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions: From labs to life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1092-1110. Κύριοι συ-συγγραφείς
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2015). Are you looking at me? The influence of facial orientation and cultural focus salience on the perception of emotion expressions. Cogent Psychology- Social Psychology Section, 2(1): 1005493. dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2015.1005493
Zampetakis, L.A. & Kafetsios, K. (2010). Group entrepreneurial behavior in established organizations: The role of middle managers’ emotion regulation and groups’ diversity. Research on Emotion in Organizations, 6, 33-61.
Kafetsios, K. (2019). Interdependent Self-Construal Moderates Relationships Between Positive Emotion and Quality in Social Interactions: A Case of Person to Culture Fit. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 914. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00914 [in Y. Chentsova-Dutton, S. Senzaki, J. De Leersnyder, The Psychology of Cultural Fit Research Topic].
Tsagalidou, K., Koutsonikola,V., Vakali, A., & Kafetsios, K. (2011). Emotional aware clustering on micro blogging sources. In S. D’Mello et al. ACII 2011, LNCS 6974, 387-396.
Van Beveren, L. Axelsson, M., Schønning, V., Bockting, C., Buysse, A., Desmet, M., Dewaele, A., Giovazolias, T., Hannon, D., Kafetsios, K., Meganck, R., Ntani, S., Rutten, K., Triliva, S., Van Beveren, L., Vandamme, J., Øverland, S., Hensing, G. (in press). A critical perspective on mental health news in six European countries: how are ‘mental health/illness’ and ‘mental health literacy’ rhetorically constructed? Qualitative Health Research.
Hess, U, & Kafetsios K. (in press). Infusing context into emotion perception impacts emotion decoding accuracy: A Truth and bias model. Experimental Psychology – Invited paper.
Events
Events
- 2017 Brown Bag Seminar series, CfRSS, UoC: "Mimicry as a social regulator", Prof. Ursula Hess, Humboldt University, Berlin
- Fall 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, Prof. Dr. Michaela Schroeder-Abe, Universität Potsdam
International Events
- "Cultural-Historical, Activity and Socio-cultural Research at Times of the Contemporary Crisis: Implications for Education and Human Development". The section of South and Central Europe and Middle East of the International Society for Cultural-Historical and Activity Research (ISCAR) (http://www.iscar.info/), the Department of Psychology at the School of Social Sciences and the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Crete, and the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Ioannina announce the organization of the International conference "Cultural Historical, Activity and Sociocultural Research at Times of Contemporary Crisis". The conference will be held at University of Crete (http://www.en.uoc.gr) which is located in the city of Rethymno during the 18th and 19th of June 2016.
- Current cultural historical activity and sociocultural approaches face unprecedented challenges connected with the contemporary world economic, ecological, social and political crisis and its multiple forms of expression at different levels of human development at different parts of the globe. The conference aims to stimulate reflective discussions and to promote research on ecological, social, cultural, psychological and political impacts of the contemporary economic crisis on human development, as well as to denote perspectives of resistance.Chair of the conference: M. Dafermakis (Dafermos). http://iscarconf.soc.uoc.gr/call.html
