Konstantinos Kafetsios
Konstantinos Kafetsios graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed his doctoral studies at the Psychology Department, Lancaster University in the UK. He has held academic appointments in Greece and abroad, more recently as a Full Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Film and the Psychology Department, University of Crete. Previously as a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and as an Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Also as a visiting Professor at Palacký University, Czech Republic and the Institute of Psychology, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany.
He is first author or co-author in several publications in international peer-refereed journals (such as Social Psychological and Personality Science, American Psychologist, Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, Journal of Non-verbal Behavior, Personal Relationships) and reviewer for numerous international peer-reviewed journals and research agencies (such as SNSF, SSHRC, NSC, FWO, ESF, European Commission).
He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and has also served as an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Frontiers in Psychology; also as consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology-IRGP, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Personal Relationships and the Hellenic Journal of Psychology.
He is a full member of the International Society of Research on Emotion (isre.org), the European Association of Social Psychology (easp.org) and International member of APA.
Research interests revolve around examining emotion in interpersonal and social interaction, in hierarchical relationships at work, and in social relationships across cultures. For this research he has received funding from National (General Secretariat for Research, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, IKY, University of Crete) and international (FP7, H2020, EEA, DAAD, GACR) sources.
Selected Publications
Kafetsios, K. (2022). Collective reactions to epidemic threat: Attachment orientations predict nation-level Covid-19 infection rate and mortality trajectories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 7, 1126–1137.
Kafetsios, K. (2022). Self-construal and Insecure Attachment Variation and Co-variation During a Period of Economic Crisis. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(2), 239-259.
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2022). Personality and the accurate perception of facial emotion expressions: What is accuracy and how does it matter? Emotion, 22,1, 100-114.
Sorokowska, A., Saluja, S., Kafetsios, K., & Croy, I. (2022). Interpersonal distancing preferences, touch behaviors to strangers, and country-level early dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread. American Psychologist, 77(1), 124-134.
Kafetsios, K. & Kateris, E. (2022). Youths’ cultural orientations, attributions to inequality and political engagement attitudes and intentions. In S. Kalogerakis (Ed.), Youth Political Participation in Greece: A Multiple Methods Perspective (pp. 99-118). London: Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3-031-09904-5
Karanatsiou, D., Sermpezis, P., Gruda, D., Kafetsios, K., Dimitriadis, I., & Vakali, A. (2022). My tweets bring all the traits to the yard: Predicting personality and relational traits in Online Social Networks. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 16(2), 1-26.
Gruda, D. & Kafetsios, K. (2022). From Ideal to Real: Attachment Orientations Guide Preference for an Autonomous Leadership Style. Front. Psychol. 13:728343.
Hess, U., & Kafetsios, K. (2021). Infusing context into emotion perception impacts emotion decoding accuracy: A truth and bias model. Experimental Psychology, 68(6), 285.
Sorokowska, A., Saluja, S., … Kafetsios, K. & Croy, I. (2021). Affective interpersonal touch in close relationships: a cross-cultural perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(12), 1705-1721.
Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., … Kafetsios, K. & Zupančič, M. (2021). Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955), 20211115.
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.
Gruda, J., & Kafetsios, K. (2020). Attachment orientations guide the transfer of expectations in leadership judgments: Culture matters. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 4, 525-546.
Kafetsios, K. & Kateris, E. (2020). Adult attachment, cultural orientation and well-being in Greece. Psychologia: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 24, 3, 193-205.
Walter, K.V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M.,….. Kafetsios, K., & Zupančič, M. (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science, 31, 4, 408-423.
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.[in Y. Chentsova-Dutton, S. Senzaki, J. De Leersnyder, The Psychology of Cultural Fit Research Topic].
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., & Gruda, J. (2018). Interdependent followers prefer avoidant leaders: Followers’ cultural orientation moderates relationships between leaders’ avoidance relationships with followers’ work outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology, Organizational Psychology Section, 3:9.
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.
Kafetsios, K., Chatzakou, D., 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.
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.
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.
Hess, U.†, Kafetsios, K.†, Mauersberger, H., Blaison, C., & Kessler, C. (2016). Signal and noise in the perception of facial emotion expressions: From labs to life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1092-1110. † Contributed equally to this work.
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.
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.
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.
Kafetsios, K., Andriopoulos, P., & Papahiou, A. (2014). Relationship status moderates avoidant attachment differences in positive emotion decoding accuracy. Personal Relationships, 21, 191-205.
Kafetsios, K., Athanasiadou, M., & Dimou, N. (2014). Leaders’ and subordinates’ attachment orientation, emotion regulation and affect at work: A multilevel analysis. The Leadership Quarterly, 25, 3, 512-527.
Kafetsios, K. & Hess, U. (2013). Effects of activated and dispositional self-construal on emotion perception accuracy. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 3, 191-205.
Anagnostopoulos, F., Liolios, E., Persefonis, G., Slater, J., Kafetsios, K., & Niakas, D. (2012). Physician Burnout and Patient Satisfaction with Consultation in Primary Health Care Settings: Evidence of Relationships from a one-with-many Design. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 19, 4, 401-410.
Kafetsios, K., Nezlek, J.B., & Vassilakou, Th. (2012). Relationships between leaders’ and subordinates’ emotion regulation capabilities, satisfaction and affect at work. The Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 4, 436-457.
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.
Kafetsios, K., Nezlek, J.B., & Vassiou, K., (2011). A Multilevel Analysis of Relationships between Leaders’ and Subordinates’ Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 5, 119-1142.
Kafetsios, K., Maridaki-Kassotaki, A., Zammuner, V.L., Zampetakis, L.A., & Vouzas, F. (2009). Emotional intelligence abilities and traits in different career paths. Journal of Career Assessment, 17, 4, 367-383.
Kafetsios, K. & Zampetakis, L. (2008). Emotional intelligence and job satisfaction: Testing the mediatory role of positive and negative affect at work. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 710-720.
Nezlek, J.B., Kafetsios, K., & Smith, V. (2008). Emotions in everyday social encounters: Correspondence between culture and self-construal. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 39, 4, 366-372.
Sideridis, G. & Kafetsios, K. (2008). Parental bonding, fear of failure and stress at school. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32, 2, 119-130.
Tsagarakis, M., Kafetsios, K., & Stalikas, A. (2007). Factor structure, validity, and reliability of the Greek version of the Revised Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR-R) measure of adult attachment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 23, 1, 47-55.
Kafetsios, K. (2006). Social support and well-being in contemporary Greek Society: Examination of multiple indicators at different levels of analysis. Social Indicators Research, 76, 127-145.
Kafetsios, K. & Sideridis, G. (2006). Attachment, social support, and well being in younger and older adults. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 6, 867-879.
Jones, L. & Kafetsios, K. (2005). Exposure to political violence and psychological well-being in Bosnian adolescents: A multiple methods approach. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 10, 2, 157-176.
Kafetsios, K. & LaRock, E. (2005). Cognition and Emotion: Aristotelian affinities with contemporary emotion research. Theory & Psychology, 15, 5, 639-657.
Kafetsios, K. (2004). Attachment and emotional intelligence abilities across the life course. Personality and Individual differences. 37, 1, 129-145.
Kafetsios, K. & Nezlek, J. B. (2002). Attachment in everyday social interaction. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 5, 719-735.