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
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
