Despina Moraitou is Assistant Professor in Cognitive Geropsychology in the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is author and co-author of 71 articles published in international and Greek journals and books as well as of more than 180 presentations, invited and others, in international and Greek conferences. She is Co-Editor (2015-) of the “Journal of Happiness Studies”. She was editorial assistant (2006-2009) of the journal “Learning and Instruction”. She was invited as Guest Associate Editor (2017) of the special issue – Supplement, 20(2), of the Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine. She is Co-Editor (2013) of the volume “A positive psychology perspective on quality of life [Social Indicators Research Series, 51. Dordrecht: Springer]”. Despina Moraitou is President (2018-2022) of the Division 7 – Applied Gerontology of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP). Her research interests lie in the area of cognitive science of aging with emphasis on complex thought and the relationship between cognition and affect during lifespan development and aging. Her most recent work focuses on the examination of cognitive control, emotion decoding, and Theory of Mind in healthy and pathological aging. She is interested in early detection of dementia-related cognitive impairment as well as in examining retrogenetic models of cognitive development. Panayiota Metallidou is Professor in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is author and co-author of 58 articles published in international and Greek journals and books as well as of more than 100 presentations, invited and others, in international and Greek conferences. She is in the Editorial Board of the journals "Metacognition and Learning" and "New Ideas in Psychology" and reviewer in other 8 international journals and 2 Greek journals. She was invited as Guest Associate Editor of the "Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society" (2000, Vol. 7, Special Issue on the Motivational aspects of Self), of the "Scientific Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece" (2005, Vol. 3-4, and 2010, Vo. 8) and of the "Scientific Annals of School of Psychology" (2009, Vol. 8). Panayiota Metallidou is President of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece (P.S.N.G.) (2014- ). Her research interests include: Metacognition and self-regulated learning, attention development and meta-attention, social cognition, and epistemological thinking in children and adolescents. Her most recent work focuses on comprehension monitoring, achievement emotions, coping strategies and affect regulation in educational settings.
