Kyriaki Fousiani
Dr Kyriaki Fousiani has a background in social and organizational psychology. She is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Psychology at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Dr Fousiani’s research is to a great extent interdisciplinary and may be divided into two main fields:
a) Intergroup relations and distribution of justice. Dr Fousiani investigates the effects of social identity of financial offenders (i.e., white-collar criminals) on people’s motives to assign punishments (utilitarian, retributive, restorative motives for punishment). More specifically, she is interested in people’s biases when endorsing beliefs (e.g., conspiracy beliefs and demonization) about financial offenders who come from either the ingroup or an outgroup and on people’s motives to punish those offenders to restore justice.
b) Power, negotiation, and conflict management. Dr Fousiani investigates the role of power asymmetry in negotiations and conflict management at the interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup context. Her research has a special focus on the role of negotiators’ power (contextual and positional) on the conflict management strategies that people deploy in negotiations.