Aikaterini Gari is Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been appointed Director of the “Center of Cross-Cultural Psychology” (2003-2013) of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology and Director of the “Laboratory for Creativity Development” (2017- today) of the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also been appointed Correspondence Member for Greece (2002-today) of the “European Council for High Ability” (ECHA) and Program Director for Greece (2007-2024) of the “European Value Study” (EVS). She has been elected member of the Executive Council (2014-2018) of the International Association for Cross-CulturaPsychology (IACCP) and co-cordinator of the “Cross-Cultural Psychology Branch” of the “Hellenic Psychological Society” (2011-2013, 2013-2015 and 2015-2017). She has also elected chair of the executive committee board of the “Hellenic Association for the Promotion of Education for the Creative, Gifted, Talented Children and Adolescents” (2003-2012, 2014-2021 ).
Her main research interests include attitudes and values, community well-being, socio-psychological dimensions of contemporary families, such as the single parent and dual-career families, emic perspectives of social axioms, socio-psychological characteristics of children and adolescents with high abilities, the gifted identification, school community members attitudes towards the gifted/ talented, teachers’ attitudes towards the gifted with learning difficulties. She has been member of the International Organizing Committee of the 8th Conference of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Rhodes, Greece, 9-13 October, 2002. She also co-chaired the 18th International Congress of the “International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology”, at the isle of Spetses, 11-15 July 2006. She is a full member of four international and three national psychological associations. She has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed international and Greek journals, book chapters, and congress proceedings. Some recent publications are following:
Gari, A. (2016). The dynamics of gifted students’ psychoeducational provisions in Greece. ECHA NEWS, 30(1), 11-12.
Gari, A. (2019). An in depth view of what happens to the gifted and talented students in Greece. ECHA News, 33(1), 14-15.
Gari, A. (2021). Initiatives for the education of the gifted within the COVID-19 pandemic ECHA News, 35(1), 16.
Gari, A., Dalla, M., & Antoniou, S. (2015). Emotional and behavioral reactions to perceived injustice. Stereotypes and acculturation. In S. Antoniou, Current Perspectives in Occupational Health Psychology (pp. 223-243). Athens: Broken Hill Publishers Ltd.
Gari, A., Mrvoljak-Theodoropoulou, I., & Nikolopoulou, V. (2023). Greek teachers’ beliefs as correlated with students’ self-efficacy during a nomination procedure of students with high potential. In V. Chiou, V., L. Gunis, O. Holz, O. N. Ertȕrk, J. Ratkowska-Pasikowska, & F. Shelton, (Eds.), Voices from the classroom (pp. 120-129). Waxmann Publishing Co.
Gari, A., Mylonas, K., & Portešová, S. (2015). An analysis of attitudes towards the gifted students with learning difficulties using two samples of Greek and Czech primary school teachers. Gifted Education International, 31(3), 271-286 doi:10.1177/0261429413511887.
Gari, A., Mylonas, K., Nikolopoulou, V., & Mrvoljak, I. (2021). Educational and Learning Resources in a Greek Student Sample: QELC factor structure and methodological considerations. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 63(2), 205-226.
Gari, A., Papakonstantinou, A., Mandaliou, I., Nikolopoulou, V. & Kokkinos, T. (2018). Gifted children’s drawing and significant others’ needs. In Gabrijelčič, M. K., & Željeznov, M. S. Teaching Gifted and Talented Children in a New Educational Era (pp. 53-73). Koper, Slovenia: University of Primorska Press.
Mrvoljak-Theodoropoulou, I., Gari, A., & Mylonas, K. (2020). Υoung adults’ assertiveness in relation to parental acceptance-rejection in Greece and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sage. Psychological Reports,125(1), 29-54. DOI: 10.1177/0033294120980967
Panagiotopoulou, P., Gari, A., & & Emvalotis, A. (2022). Traditional and post-materialistic values about family and marriage in Greece. In R. Luijkx, T. Reeskens, & I. Sieben & (Eds.), Reflections on European Values. Honouring Loek Halman’s Contribution to the European Values Study. Brill’s EVS-series. https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/reflections-on-european-values-honouring-loek-halmans-contribution.
Polyzopoulou, K., Kokaridas, D. Patsiaouras, A. & Gari, A. (2014). Teachers’ attitudes toward education of gifted children in Greek educational settings Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 14(2), 211 - 221.
Roy, S., Neumann, C., Jones, D. Gari, A., & Šram, Z. (2021). Psychopathic propensities contribute to social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism in predicting prejudicial attitudes in a large European sample. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences,16(1), 110355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110355.
Tatarko, A., Mironova, A., Gari, A., van de Vijver, Fons J. R. (2020). The relationship between human values and acceptability of corruption in Russia and Greece. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 13(3), 79-95.
Yik, M., Mues, C., Sze, I. N. L., Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., De Roover, K., Kwok, F. H. C., Schwartz, S. H., Abu-Hilal, M., Adebayo, D. F., Aguilar, P., Al-Bahrani, M., Anderson, M. H., Andrade, L., Bratko, D., Bushina, E., Choi, J. W., Cieciuch, J., Dru, V., . . . Russell, J. A. (2023). On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe. Emotion, 23(2), 332–344. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001095
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