Unity and Modularity in the Mind and Self

Andreas Demetriou is a professor of psychology at the Department of Educational Sciences and the Vice-Rector of the University of Cyprus. He has studied the development of the mind for over two decades and his current work aims to integrate conceptions of the mind, personality and the self into a comprehensive theory.

• 1. Introduction: from cognitive structures to mind, personality and self 2. Study I: structure and development of cognitive abilities, self-evaluation and self-representation 3. Results I: levels, dimensions, and domains in performance, self-evaluation and self-representation 4. Results II: development and individual differences in cognitive abilities, self-evaluation and self-representation 5. Study II: families of mind: relationships between children's self-representations and parents representations about them 6. Study III: from processing speed to self-representation 7. Study IV: cognitive self-image, thinking styles and the big five factors of personality 8. General discussion: the emerging self: the convergence of mind, personality, and self

'...it seems to boost an inductive approach for research on structures of the self.' - Werner Greve, International Journal of Behavioural Development