Andreas Demetriou

He studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (PhD, 1983) and the University of New South Wales (1978), Australia. He was a professor of developmental psychology at the Aristotle University (1975-1996), the University of Cyprus (1996-2008), and the University of Nicosia (2011-2017). He served as Vice-Rector and Acting Rector of the University of Cyprus (1999-2002), founding President of the Cyprus University of Technology (2004-2008), President of the Conference of Rectors of the Universities of Cyprus (2006-2008) and President of the National Research Council of Cyprus (2012-2015). He was the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus (2008-2011).

He is an Honorary Doctor of Middlesex University London and the University of Szeged, Hungary, and an Honorary Professor of Durham University, UK, and the Northeastern Normal University, China. He is a member of many learned societies, including the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, the Society for Research in Child Development, American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society for Research on Intelligence.

He served as editor or board member of many journals, including the Advances in Learning and Instruction; Learning and Instruction: The Journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction; Developmental Science; Cognitive Development; the British Journal of Educational Psychology; Intelligence; Journal of Intelligence. He was the founding editor of Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society.

He taught as Visiting Professor at several Universities, including the Universities of Porto, Lublijana, Marribor, Fribourg, and Melbourne, and lectured as invited speaker at more than 50 Universities all over the world, including the Universities of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, McGill, Toronto, Munich, Leiden, Gothenburg, Wurzburg, Edinburgh, Leuven, Durham, etc. Many of his students are currently professors in Greek, Cypriot, European, Chinese, and African Universities.

He has published more than 250 books (by Routledge, Wiley, Cambridge, and Oxford University Press and two SRCD Monographs) and articles in top journals, including Psychological Review, Developmental Review, Developmental Science, Intelligence, etc. His book, GROWING MINDS (with George Spanoudis, Routledge) is translated in several languages including Chinese. His last book, EDUCATING THE DEVELOPING MIND (2024, Routledge) presents the implications of his theory for learning and education. The educational applications of his work are also presented in a booklet jointly published by the UNESCO International Bureau of Education and the International Academy of Education in the Educational Practices series (Understanding and facilitating the development of intellect, Series-26). Several journals (e.g., New Ideas in Psychology, 1998; Developmental Review. 1999; Developmental Science, 1999; Intelligence, 2014) devoted special issues for the discussion of his theory of cognitive development and its relations to general theory of intelligence.

Recent Positions and honors

Professor of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece,  (1975-1996), the University of Cyprus (1996-2008), and the University of Nicosia (2011-2016).

PhD

1983, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Publications

2011

Demetriou, A.,  Spanoudis, A.,  & Mouyi, A.  (2011). Educating the developing mind: Towards an overarching  paradigm.  Educational Psychology Review, 23, 601-663.

2013

Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., Shayer, M., Mouyi, A., Kazi, S., & Platsidou, M. (2013). Cycles in Speed-Working Memory-G Relations: Towards a Developmental-Differential Theory of the Mind. Intelligence, 41, 34-50. Doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.10.010.

2014

Demetriou, A. (2014). Learning to learn, know, and reason. In R. D. Crick, C. Stringher , & K. Ren Learning to learn: International perspectives from theory and practice  (pp. 41-65). London: Routledge. 

Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., Shayer, M., van der Ven, S., Brydges, C., R., Kroesbergen, E., Podjarny, G., Swanson, L. H. (2014). Relations between speed, working memory, and intelligence from preschool to adulthood: Structural equation modeling of 14 studies. Intelligence, 46, 107-121.

2015

Spanoudis, G., Demetriou, A., Kazi, S., Giorgala, K., & Zenonos, V. (2015). Embeding cognizance in intellectual development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 32–50.

Zebec, M., Demetriou, a., & Topic, M. (2015). Changing expressions of general intelligence in development: A 2-wave longitudinal study from 7 to 18 Years of age. Intelligence, 49, 94-109.

2016

Papageorgiou, E., Christou, C., Spanoudis, G., & Demetriou. A.(2016). Augmenting Intelligence: Developmental Limits to Learning-Based Cognitive Change. Intelligence, 56, 16-27

Christoforides, M., Spanoudis, G., Demetriou, A. (2016). Coping with Logical Fallacies: A Developmental Training Program for Learning to Reason. Child Development, DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12557.

In press

Demetriou, A., & Spanoudis, G. (in press). Mind and intelligence: Integrating developmental, psychometric, and cognitive theories of human mind. In M. Rosen (Ed.), Challenges in Educational Measurement— contents and methods. New York: Springer.