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Kostas A. Fanti

Kostas A. Fanti

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Psychology
Cyprus
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
8633
World Ranking
6669
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Cyprus Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Cyprus Leader Award

Overview

Kostas A. Fanti is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cyprus in Cyprus, specializing primarily in the field of Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Education.

The main focus of their research covers topics such as psychopathy and forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment, deception detection and forensic psychology, child abuse and trauma, as well as bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Fanti's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "The DSM-5 Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier for Conduct Disorder: Comorbid Problems, Prognosis, and Antecedents," 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children," 2020, Journal of Criminal Justice
  • "Stability and Change in Early Social Skills Development in Relation to Early School Performance: A Longitudinal Study of A Swedish Cohort," 2021, Early Education and Development
  • "Are Children High on Callous-Unemotional Traits Emotionally Blind? Testing Eye-Gaze Differences," 2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Trajectories of Pure and Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Age 2 to Age 12: Findings from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care," 2022, Counseling And Psychological Services Dissertations (Georgia State University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fanti include:

  • Olivier F. Colins
  • Ioannis Mavrommatis
  • Henrik Andershed
  • Georgia Soursou
  • Chara A. Demetriou

Fanti's research has been published consistently in several academic venues, notably:

  • Children
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Best Publications

  • A longitudinal study of cyberbullying: Examining riskand protective factors

    Kostas A. Fanti;Andreas G. Demetriou;Veronica V. Hawa

  • Schools, parents, and youth violence: a multilevel, ecological analysis.

    Kathryn A. Brookmeyer;Kostas A. Fanti;Christopher C. Henrich

  • Linking Callous-Unemotional Traits to Instrumental and Non-Instrumental Forms of Aggression

    Kostas A. Fanti;Paul J. Frick;Stelios Georgiou

  • Trajectories of pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems from age 2 to age 12: findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care.

    Kostas A. Fanti;Christopher C. Henrich

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • Bullying and Victimization: The Role of Conduct Problems and Psychopathic Traits

    Kostas A. Fanti;Eva R. Kimonis

  • The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study

    Christopher C Henrich;Mary Schwab-Stone;Kostas Fanti;Stephanie M Jones

  • Effects of Self-Esteem and Narcissism on Bullying and Victimization During Early Adolescence:

    Kostas A. Fanti;Christopher C. Henrich

  • Variants of callous-unemotional conduct problems in a community sample of adolescents.

    Kostas A. Fanti;Chara A. Demetriou;Eva R. Kimonis

  • Desensitization to media violence over a short period of time

    Kostas A. Fanti;Eric Vanman;Christopher C. Henrich;Marios N. Avraamides

  • Can Callous-Unemotional Traits be Reliably Measured in Preschoolers?

    Eva R. Kimonis;Kostas A. Fanti;Xenia Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous;Biran Mertan

  • Toward a Transactional Model of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

    Kostas A. Fanti;Christopher C. Henrich;Kathryn A. Brookmeyer;Gabriel P. Kuperminc

  • Understanding heterogeneity in conduct disorder: A review of psychophysiological studies.

    Kostas A. Fanti

  • Individual, Social, and Behavioral Factors Associated with Co-Occurring Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Kostas A. Fanti

  • Maltreatment profiles among incarcerated boys with callous-unemotional traits

    Eva R. Kimonis;Eva R. Kimonis;Kostas A. Fanti;Zachary Isoma;Kathleen Donoghue;Kathleen Donoghue

  • Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample.

    Grace Icenogle;Laurence Steinberg;Natasha Duell;Jason Chein

  • Using self-reported callous-unemotional traits to cross-nationally assess the DSM-5 ‘With Limited Prosocial Emotions’ specifier

    Eva R. Kimonis;Kostas A. Fanti;Paul J. Frick;Paul J. Frick;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • Psychopathic personality in the general population: differences and similarities across gender

    Olivier F. Colins;Kostas A. Fanti;Randall T. Salekin;Henrik Andershed

  • Stability and Change in Callous-Unemotional Traits : Longitudinal Associations With Potential Individual and Contextual Risk and Protective Factors

    Kostas A. Fanti;Olivier F. Colins;Henrik Andershed;Maria Sikki

  • Trajectories of Pure and Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Age 2 to Age 12: Findings from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

    Kostas Andrea Fanti

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier F. Colins
Olivier F. Colins Ghent University
Henrik Andershed
Henrik Andershed Örebro University
Eva R. Kimonis
Eva R. Kimonis University of New South Wales
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Paul J. Frick
Paul J. Frick Louisiana State University
Georgia Panayiotou
Georgia Panayiotou University of Cyprus
Randall T. Salekin
Randall T. Salekin University of Alabama
Christopher C. Henrich
Christopher C. Henrich University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University

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