Scientific Output

Upcoming (2025-2026)

• Editor of the The Dark Triad Research Handbook (under contract) with Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

2024

• Truhan, T. E., Sedikides, C., Turner, R., Kovas, Y., & Papageorgiou, K. A. (2024). Fluctuations and changes in adolescent personality: The tri-directional framework of parent and offspring traits and outcomes. In K. Taku and T. Shackelford (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors. Taylor & Francis.

2018

• Papageorgiou, K.A. & Vipulananthan, V. (2018). Molecular Genetic Studies of Human Temperament. In T.K. Shackelford & V. Zeigler-Hill. The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: SAGE
• Papageorgiou, K.A., Mutz, J., Lin, Y., & Clough, P. (2018). Mental Toughness: A Personality Trait that is Relevant across Achievement Contexts and Mental Health Outcomes. In T.K. Shackelford & V. Zeigler-Hill.  The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: SAGE

2017

• Papageorgiou, K.A. & Ronald, A. (2017). The genetic basis of psychological traits in infancy: Implications for understanding the causes of developmental psychopathology. In D. Williams & L. Centifanti. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Major Academic Events Chair

• The 2023 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) (July 2023). Co-Chair of the official conference of ISSID
• Mental Toughness International Symposium (15^th November 2019). The event was funded by the British Psychological Society in Northern Ireland; it was organized by the InteRRaCt Lab and AQR International and took place at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Beyond Good and Evil: New Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches to Studying Personality (5^th October 2018).  The event took place at Queen’s University Belfast.

Invited Lectures and Talks

• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (15th April 2024). Personality and Culture on the Course Cross-Cultural Psychology of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (25th March 2024). Dark Personalities on the Course Theories of Personality of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (13 November 2023). Dark Personalities on the Course Theories of Personality of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (28th November 2022). Personality and Culture on the Course Cross-Cultural Psychology of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (1^st June 2022). Dark Personalities on the Course Theories of Personality of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (24^th March 2022). Dark Personalities Lecturer on the Course Theories of Personality of the American Institute of Foreign Studies in London.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (18^th September 2019). Escaping Scylla and Charybdis: How Narcissism Can Help to Overcome Simplistic Dichotomies between Good and Evil Personalities Contributing to Wellbeing and Performance. Invited Open Lecture organized by the British Psychological Society
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (20^th June 2019). Pushing Boundaries, Opening New Frontiers. Invited Lecture in the International Mental Toughness Conference, Manchester, UK.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (20^th June 2019). Networks of Dark Triad and Mental Toughness. Invited Lecture in the International Mental Toughness Conference, Manchester, UK.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (16^th November 2018). The Missing Link between the Prosocial and the Dark Side of Human Personality – The Bridge of Narcissism. Invited Talk in the Flavour of Psychology open day that was organised by NI British Psychological Society at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (8^th – 10^th March 2018). Individual Differences in Non-Cognitive Factors and Academic Performance. Invited Talk in the 1^st International Conference of Educational Centre Sirius, Sochi, Russia.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (8^th June 2017). Beyond Good and Evil: The Dark Triad, Mental Toughness and School Achievement. Invited Lecture in the International Summer School for young scientists and students titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Educationally Relevant Psychological Traits” Moscow, Russia.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (3^rd November 2016). “Eyes are the Window to the Future Soul”: Predicting individual differences in children’s temperament and behaviour from the first day of their lives. Invited Lecture in the Psychology Seminar Series, Middlesex University of London, London, UK.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou, (28^th March 2016). Using eye tracking and molecular genetics in infancy to study the development of cognition, temperament and behaviour. Invited Lecture in the international workshop: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Early Childhood Development, Tomsk, Russia.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou, (24^th July 2015). Using Eye Tracking and other methods in infancy to study cognition and behaviour across development. Invited Lecture in the international seminar on current methods of EEG analysis in the psychological institute, RAE, Moscow, Mokhovaya Street, 9/4.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (24^th October 2013). Implications of Molecular and Behavioural Genetic Research in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Invited Lecture in the international Cognitive Neuroscience MSc course in the University of Padua, Italy.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (2-8 November 2011). Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities: Testosterone vs. Socialization. Invited Talk in InLab’s 2^nd International meeting, Russian Academy of Science and Education, Moscow, Russia
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (29^th November 2011). Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities: Testosterone vs. Socialization. Invited Talk in InLab’s 1^st International meeting, New York University London, London, UK

Conference Posters and Talks

• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (17-21 July 2023). Dark Triad Traits in Parents and Offspring: Parenting, Context and Outcomes. Symposium at the 2023 ISSID Conference, Belfast, UK.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (6th July 2022). Sex differences in the Dark Triad are sensitive to socioeconomic conditions: the adaptive value of narcissism in the UK, Greece, and China. Talk at the 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (21^st February 2020). Dark Personalities. Talk at the NI Science Festival at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (15^th November 2019). Talk at the Mental Toughness International Symposium: The event was funded by the British Psychological Society in Northern Ireland, it was organized by the InteRRaCt Lab and AQR International and took place at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (31^st July 2019). Bridging the Gap: A Network Approach to DarkTriad, Mental Toughness, the Big Five and Perceived Stress. Talk at the 2019 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Florence, Italy.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (4^th April 2019). The Bright Side of Dark: Exploring the Positive Effect of Grandiose Narcissism on Perceived Stress through Mental Toughness. Talk at the 3^rd World Conference on Personality, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (5^th October 2018). The Missing Link between the Prosocial and the Dark Side of Human Personality – The Bridge of Narcissism. Talk at the Symposium Beyond Good and Evil: New Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches to Studying Personality that was organized by InteRRaCt Lab at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (14^th – 16^th July 2017). Longitudinal Associations between Narcissism, Mental Toughness and School Achievement. Talk at the 18^th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Intelligence Research, Montreal, Canada.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou (15^th -17^th July2016). Siblings’ Sex is linked to Mental Rotation Performance in Males but not Females. Talk at the International Society for Intelligence Research Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (1^st April 2016). Individual Differences in Mental Toughness Associate with Individual Variation in Academic Achievement and Income. Talk at the 2^nd World Conference on Personality, at the Atlantico Buzios Convention, Buzios, Brazil.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (21-25 May 2015). Individual Differences in Newborn Visual Attention Associate with Temperament and Behavioral Difficulties in Later Childhood. Posterat the 27^th APS Annual Convention, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York, NY, USA.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (3-5 July, 2014). Individual Differences in Infants Fixation Duration Relate to Temperament and Behaviour in Childhood.Poster at the ICIS Conference Berlin, Germany.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (9-11 January 2014). Individual Differences in Infant Fixation Duration relate to Attention and Behavioral Control in Childhood. Posterat the 2014 CEU Conference on Cognitive Development in Budapest, Hungary.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (4-6 September 2013). An investigation of the relationship between individual differences in infant fixation durations and later temperament and behaviour in childhood.Talk at the Joint Cognitive Psychology Section & Developmental Psychology Section BPS Annual Conference in Reading, UK.
• Kostas A. Papageorgiou. (9-16 August, 2013). An investigation of the relationship between individual differences in infant fixation durations and later temperament and behaviour in childhood.Poster presentation at the 13^th European Conference on Eye-Movement in Lund, Sweden.
• Kostas A Papageorgiou (25-28 May 2010). Assessing Executive Functions and Divergent Logical Thinking using the Prioritization Form A and B and Self-generated portion of Telegram tasks. Poster at 13^th Research Conference of Greek Psychological Society in Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Greece.