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Vassilis Pavlopoulos graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology (major in Psychology) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1992. He conducted his doctoral studies with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and received his PhD degree in Social Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1998 (graduated with honors). His thesis was on parental perceptions of children's personality.

Between 2000-2004 he worked as a teaching and research scientist in the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete, and in the Department of Primary Education of the University of Patras. He has been a member of the teaching staff in the Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the positions of Lecturer, Assistant Professor (2009), and Associate Professor (2015) of Cross-Cultural Psychology. In 2021, he was promoted to full Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Psychology. He teaches Cross-Cultural and Social Psychology classes, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and he is the supervisor of bachelor's theses, master's theses, and PhD dissertations. Also, he is director of the Laboratory of Applied Cross-Cultural and Social Psychology

His research interests and publications focus on acculturation and intercultural relations, resilience processes of immigrant and refugee youth, ideologies of cultural diversity, perceived discrimination and beliefs about justice, cross-cultural study of values, and correlates of political behavior.  

In addition to his teaching and research work, Vassilis Pavlopoulos is coordinator of the internal evaluation committee, member of the undergraduate program committee, and former scientific coordinator of the practice internship committee of the Department of Psychology. He is consulting editor/reviewer for international journals and a registered evaluator for the National Academic Recognition Information Center and for national research funding institutions. He has been associate editor of Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (2015-2019), board member of the Hellenic Psychological Society (2022-2024), and coordinator of HPS Social Psychology (2007-2015) and Cross-Cultural Psychology (2017-2021) divisions. Also, he has been member of the organizing and scientific committees of Hellenic and international conferences. 

Office: cell 504 
Tel.: +302107277721
E-mail: vpavlop[at]psych.uoa[dot]gr 
URL: users.uoa.gr/~vpavlop/

Office hour: Tuesday 12:00-14:00 
Supervision hour: 
Thursday 12:00-14:00 (by apt.) 
Video meeting: 
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