Phaidon Vassiliou

Short presentation

I am interested in the social psychology of intergroup conflict and cooperation, with a focus on how war exposure and mental health shape people’s social, moral, and economic preferences. I rely on a range of research methodologies including ethnographic fieldwork, behavioral and survey experiments, and randomized controlled trials.

Keywords

• political psychology
• mental health
• moral anthropology
• altruism
• war trauma
• cooperation

Biography

• M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University (Sweden), 2021.
  • Thesis: Negotiating the Moral Community: Moral Intimacy in the Shadow of Colombia's Rebel Rule.
• M.A. (Lic.), Psychology, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), 2016.
  • Thesis: Psychoanalysis and Religion, Between Creativity and Fundamentalism.