Charis Psaltis is Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cyprus. His research interests are genetic social psychology, social interaction and cognitive development, social representations of gender and intergroup contact and intergroup relations in Cyprus. He is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Psychology of Education.
He is the co-author, with Anna Zapiti, of Interaction, Communication and Development : Psychological Development as a Social Process (2014). Alex Gillespie is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, UK, and co-editor of the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. He studies social interaction, specifically how it produces novelty, distributes cognitive processes, creates our sense of self and enables society to reproduce itself.
He is the author of Becoming Other : From Social Interaction to Self-Reflection (2006), and is the co-editor, with Ivana Markova, of a volume entitled Trust and Conflict : Representation, Culture and Dialogue (2011). Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Psychology and Education at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, with a special interest in cultural and social psychology.
Her research topics range from children's development to vocational education with a special concern for the "architecture" of the social spaces that offer opportunities to think and learn. She is the co-editor, with N. Muller Mirza, of Argumentation and Education : Theoretical Foundations and Practices (2009), and, with J. M. Barrelet, of Jean Piaget and Neuchâtel : The Learner and the Scholar (2008), new (paperback) edition (2014).