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Spyros Spyrou

Researcher at European University Cyprus

Publications -  36
Citations -  2316

Spyros Spyrou is an academic researcher from European University Cyprus. The author has contributed to research in topics: Childhood studies & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1979 citations. Previous affiliations of Spyros Spyrou include Cyprus College & University of Cyprus.

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The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

David P. Schmitt, +123 more
TL;DR: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness as discussed by the authors.
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The limits of children’s voices: From authenticity to critical, reflexive representation:

TL;DR: The authors argue that critical, reflexive researchers need to reflect on the processes which produce children's voices in research, the power imbalances that shape them and the ideological contexts which inform their production and reception, or in other words issues of representation.
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Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

David P. Schmitt, +130 more
TL;DR: In the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completed the RelationshipQuestionnaire (RQ), a self-report measure of adult romantic attachment as discussed by the authors.
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Researching children’s silences: Exploring the fullness of voice in childhood research:

TL;DR: The authors argue that children's silences are pregnant with meaning and a constitutive feature of their voices; childhood researchers who need to account for children's voices must therefore attend to their silences rather than merely their voiced utterances.
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Images of 'the Other': 'The Turk' in Greek Cypriot children's imaginations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how national identity is constructed in the classroom through the use of an 'us' versus 'them' frame of reference, a process which essentialises identity and gives rise to an eternal and primordial enemy.