Nikos Bozatzis

13A, Navarinou str., 10680 Athens

• 1999 Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Psychology Department, Lancaster University (K.). Thesis title ‘Greek national identity in talk: The rhetorical articulation of an ideological dilemma’.


• 1993 M.Sc. in Research Methods in Psychology, Psychology Department, Lancaster University (K.).


• 1989 Ptychion in Philosophy, Education and Psychology (specialization in Psychology), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• Intergroup relations


• Discourse and identities


• Migration and Diaspora


• National and cultural identities


• Representations of collective action


• Authoritarianism


• Analysis of political discourse


• Analysis of media discourse


• Social psychological theory


• Discourse analytic theories and methods in social psychology

Courses and Seminars

• Introduction to social psychology


• Methodology of research in social sciences I


• Methodology of research in social sciences II


• Prejudice, stereotypes and intergroup conflicts: Social psychological approaches


• National / cultural identities in discourse: The analytic approach of discursive psychology

• Bozatzis, N., Xenitidou, M. & Sapountzis, A. (2026). Citizenship and immigration in social psychology: The discursive construction of cultural hierarchy. In E. Andreouli, L. Figgou & I. Kadianaki (Eds.). The Social Psychology of Citizenship: Critical advances and interdisciplinary insights. Routledge.


• Bozatzis, N. & Ntontis, E. (2025). ‘Le Bon in Exarcheia’: Cultural pathology in media constructions of political crowd action in Greece. In M.S. Uysal, S. Vestergren & Y.G. Acar (Eds.) Social Psychology of Leadership and Crowds: Global Perspectives.


• Ntontis, E., Bozatzis, N., & Kokkini, V. (2023). Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders’ public talk during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12658


• Figgou, L., Bozatzis, N., & Kadianaki, I. (2023). ‘Guilty as charged’: Intersectionality and accountability in lay talk on discrimination and violence. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62, 1215– 1229. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12627


• Bozatzis, N., Sapountzis, A., Lardi, L. & Xenitidou, M. (2022). Greek talk on migration: Constructions of modernity differentials and cultural hierarchy. In F.M. Moghaddam & M.J. Hendricks (Eds.) Contemporary Immigration: Psychological perspectives to address challenges and inform solutions. American Psychological Association. (ISBN-13: 978-1433836275).


• Kokkini, V., Tseliou, E., Abakoumkin, G., & Bozatzis, N. (2022). ‘Immersed in World of Warcraft (WoW)’: A discursive study of identity management talk about excessive online gaming. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(5), 590-612. org/10.1177/0261927X211067820


• Michos, I., Figgou, L. & Bozatzis, N. (2021). Constructions of LGBTQI+ rights and claims in lay discourse in Greece: Liberal dilemmas and sexual citizenship boundaries. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 31(6), 768-781. org/10.1002/casp.2538


• Bozatzis, N. & Teliou, C. (2018). Constructing cultural pathology: The December 2008 upheaval in Greek press. In B. Wagoner, F. Moghaddam & J. Valsiner (Eds.). The Psychology of Radical Social Change: From rage to revolution. Cambridge University Press.


• Bozatzis, N. (2016). Cultural Othering, banal Occidentalism and the discursive construction of the ‘Greek crisis’ in global media: A case study. Suomen Antropologi – Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 41(2): 47-71.


• Bozatzis, N. (2014). Banal Occidentalism. In C. Antaki & S. Condor (Eds.) Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology: Essays in honour of Michael Billig. Routledge.


• Bozatzis, N. & Dragonas, Th. (Eds.) (2014). The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology. Taos Institute Publications ISBN: 978-1-938552-21-2


• Bozatzis, N. (2009). Occidentalism and Accountability: Constructing culture and cultural difference in majority Greek talk about the minority in Western Thrace. Discourse & Society, 20(4), 431-453. doi:10.1177/0957926509104022

Other information

• 2015-2016 Adjunct Fellow, Victoria University, Victoria Institute, Μελβούρνη.


• 2014-2015 Visiting Researcher, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide.


• 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar, Victoria University, Victoria Institute, Μελβούρνη.


• 2013-2014 Olympia Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.


• 2006-2009 Visiting Researcher, Psychology Department, Georgetown University (Washington D.C.).


• 2000-2001 Postdoctoral research scholarship by the State Scholarships Foundation, Psychology Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.


• 1999 BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Award for the Most Outstanding PhD thesis in social psychology.


• 1996-1998 S.R.C. doctoral scholarship, Lancaster University, Psychology Department.