Maria Ioannou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Ioannou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Ioannou |
| SIGNATURE | IOANNOU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4937-7960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hybrid leadership and its impact on organisational performance and innovation
This study examines how senior leaders at Bahrain's General Sports Authority (GSA), a public governmental authority operating within Bahrain's state administrative framework, enact hybrid leadership to enhance organisational performance and innovation. Drawing on nine semi-structured interviews with senior GSA executives, the study employs a qualitative, exploratory design and applies Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-phase thematic analysis to ident…
Classifying Incel Offenders
Due to the relatively recent formation of the involuntary celibate (incel) community, there is limited research on the topic of incel-motivated offenses and offenders. The current study was designed to create a model to classify incel offenders, using media and secondary sources. The results of the study created a core region of variables that are central to incel incidents, as well as two themes: Violent Criminal and Disturbed Loner. The finding…
Specific emotions elicited during valenced imagined intergroup encounters as mediators of the contact-prejudice relationship
183) in the post-conflict society of Cyprus examining which emotions are elicited during positive vs. negative imagined contact with the outgroup (Turkish Cypriots) and whether they mediate the effect of valenced contact on prejudice. Findings indicate that all emotions under study were significant mediators for some intergroup outcomes, albeit in different ways. More Joy was associated with more positive and less negative intergroup outcomes, wh…
How the Actions of Fictional Characters Influence Copycat Offenders
Copycat offences based on media influences have received arguably little attention within academic literature. As such, a qualitative thematic analysis was conducted to copycat offenders whose offences were inspired by fictional media. Thirty offenders were identified who were responsible for thirty-nine offences overall. The results found that half of the offenders displayed excessive violence during their offences. Additionally, twelve offender…
Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Homicide
Imagining positive contact across the conflict divide
The Romantic Psychopath? Investigating How Psychopathic Traits and Stalking Victimization Apply to the Context of Romantic Relationships
While researchers have previously been interested in investigating and understanding psychopathy, much of this research has focussed on criminal psychopaths, and the area of non-criminal psychopathy has remained largely under-researched, particularly surrounding romantic relationships. The present study explored how the traits of psychopathy impact romantic relationships between a psychopathic individual and a non-psychopathic partner and also ex…
Gen Z Hybristophilia
This research explores hybristophilia (an individual’s sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes) among Generation Z women, particularly through investigating how Gen Z female users interact with and feel about hybristophilic content and how this content impacts their attraction to offenders. Study 1 involved a content analysis of 66 videos and 91 comments on TikTok, identifying seven main themes: The Halo Effect, ActorOffender…
Sexual Offending
The Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) is a framework developed within Invest-igative Psychology, which combines the emotions and narrative roles experienced by the offender during the commission of their offense, to understand their personal experience of crime . Previous research proposes four distinct themes within CNE; The Elated Hero, The Calm Professional, The Distressed Revenger, and The Depressed Victim , however little attention has yet…
Videography as performance’ in the service of social movement visibility and interaction amidst the pandemic
This study aims to contribute to scholarship on online video activism by looking at mobilization videos created by the Support Art Workers (SAW) movement which emerged during the COVID-19 crisis in Greece. Our main observation is that several SAW videos consist of an assemblage of performance art elements and protest visuals which together with expressive uses of video production exemplify a “videography as performance” approach. We examine three…
Time to Bear Arms
There has been a noticeable rise in the number of mass shootings occurring in the US over the last decade with these attacks often being committed by a lone actor. This article aims to explore this, focusing on the time suspension between when the lone actor acquires their firearm and when they commit their attack. The cases involved all occurred in the US and all perpetrators obtained their firearms legally. The results found that, on average, l…
Dating Applications
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where sextortionists identify potential victims and lure them into extortion and victimization. Limited research and media coverage has revealed that sextortion can cause significant harm, with victims reporting negative psychological consequences, such as de…
No One Believed Me, and I Have No proof
Spiking has become increasingly more prevalent since the 1990s, with drugs \nsuch as Rohypnol, Ketamine and GHB commonly being put unknowingly into \npeople’s drinks in nightclubs. More recently, spiking through the use of \na needle has become more prevalent in the nighttime economy, with this \nand the other more commonly known methods of spiking (drink, food) all \nbeing limited in research. The current mixed-design study aims to explore \nvic…
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook
This study provides a comparative analysis of collective meaning-making processes by unpacking activists’ discourses (within and in relation to their polis) and online (on Facebook) during the financial, post-financial, and COVID-19 crises in Greece (2011–2021). By analyzing 71 semi-structured interviews with activists and 14,475 Facebook posts, we first evaluate actors’ identity progression, then identify the differences and commonalities betwee…
Foreshadowing Terror
Previous research has highlighted the prominent behavior of lone wolf terrorists to produce and share a manifesto publicly, outlining their frustrations and motivations for their eventual terrorist attack. This article aims to explore this phenomenon, focusing on the timelapse between when a terrorist manifesto is posted online and when the eventual attack occurs, discussing the time difference between the two events for 12 cases of lone wolf ter…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
Policy vs reality
Social media platforms have become a prominent feature in modern-day communication, allowing users to express opinion and communicate with friends and likeminded individuals. However, with this revolutionary form of communication comes risks of exploitation and utilisation of these platforms for potentially illegal and harmful means. This article aims to explore the community guidelines and policies of prominent social media sites regarding extre…
Reporting missing children to the police
Releasing missing person appeals is common practice when someone goes missing. Despite the wide-scale usage, the understanding on appeal effectiveness remains under-researched. This article aims to identify the factors that influence the likelihood of members of the public to report a child that has gone missing to the police and requires police assistance. Participant responses ( n = 252) were qualitatively analysed identifying four factors that…
Migrants as ‘pawns’
This article explores how Europe’s border crises in the post refugee ‘crisis’ years were discussed in the micro-blog Twitter, through an in-depth analysis of boundary making. Our focus is on the tweets of the top influencers of the hashtag #IStandWithGreece who strategically promoted ideologies ranging from white supremacism to Greek nationalism, glued together by an antimigrant stance during a border ‘crisis’ at Europe’s periphery. This network …
The Relationship between Dark Triad Personality Traits and Sexting Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults across 11 Countries
The present study provided empirical evidence that different sexting behaviors were predicted by Dark Triad Personality Traits, showing a relevant role of Machiavellianism in all kinds of investigated sexting behaviors. Research, clinical, and education implications for prevention programs are discussed
The role of Hexaco personality traits in different kinds of sexting
Opening the black box of contact
While there is growing support for the prejudice‐reduction effects of imagined contact, knowledge of the content of imagery in imagined contact studies remains scarce. This qualitative study aims to address this gap by unravelling the ways of imagining an intergroup encounter that is indeed positive. Our data consist of the imagined contact stories of 43 participants in two imagined contact studies conducted in Cyprus, a post‐conflict context cha…
When sex is more than just sex
Rates of sexual assault remain high in Jamaica, although victims are often reluctant to report incidences to the police. Those cases which are reported by victims are investigated by the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Centre for Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA). Whilst improvements have been noted in recent years, human rights organisations have highlighted on-going limitations of such investigations and the effective interviewing of victim…
Understanding the three levels of resilience
The huge growth in expenditure on counter‐extremism and counter‐terrorism policy post 9/11 (Dawson & Guinnessy, 2002; Lum, Kennedy, & Sherley, 2006; Silke, 2004) has seen buzzwords such as “resilience” integrated without clear framing or the underpinning of empirical evidence. The issue addressed by the current study is twofold: the framing of resilience within policy is not such that it clearly relates to extremism and, the subsequent lack of un…
Understanding media debate around migration
Continuous and increasing worldwide migration has sparked an intense social debate in multiple forums. Media play a key role in constructing, monitoring, and framing this debate. This study focuses on a qualitative analysis of the media debate around migration in Cyprus via (a) studying how migrants are represented in the Greek Cypriot Press and (b) assessing the extent and the way in which favorable and unfavorable representations around migrati…
Inducing similarities and differences in imagined contact
To enhance the prejudice-reducing effects of imagined contact we investigated a novel form of imagined contact (“balanced similarity”) which emphasized both similarities and differences between the ingroup(er) and the outgroup(er). Experiment 1 compared balanced similarity with conditions inducing only differences or only similarities. “Balanced similarity” led to more positive outgroup attitudes; its differences with the “high similarity” condit…
An experimental comparison of direct and indirect intergroup contact
Understanding media debate around migration
Continuous and increasing worldwide migration has sparked an intense social debate in multiple forums. Media play a key role in constructing, monitoring, and framing this debate. This study focuses on a qualitative analysis of the media debate around migration in Cyprus via (a) studying how migrants are represented in the Greek Cypriot Press and (b) assessing the extent and the way in which favorable and unfavorable representations around migrati…
Policy vs reality
Social media platforms have become a prominent feature in modern-day communication, allowing users to express opinion and communicate with friends and likeminded individuals. However, with this revolutionary form of communication comes risks of exploitation and utilisation of these platforms for potentially illegal and harmful means. This article aims to explore the community guidelines and policies of prominent social media sites regarding extre…
Opening the black box of contact
While there is growing support for the prejudice‐reduction effects of imagined contact, knowledge of the content of imagery in imagined contact studies remains scarce. This qualitative study aims to address this gap by unravelling the ways of imagining an intergroup encounter that is indeed positive. Our data consist of the imagined contact stories of 43 participants in two imagined contact studies conducted in Cyprus, a post‐conflict context cha…
Dating Applications
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where sextortionists identify potential victims and lure them into extortion and victimization. Limited research and media coverage has revealed that sextortion can cause significant harm, with victims reporting negative psychological consequences, such as de…
No One Believed Me, and I Have No proof
Spiking has become increasingly more prevalent since the 1990s, with drugs \nsuch as Rohypnol, Ketamine and GHB commonly being put unknowingly into \npeople’s drinks in nightclubs. More recently, spiking through the use of \na needle has become more prevalent in the nighttime economy, with this \nand the other more commonly known methods of spiking (drink, food) all \nbeing limited in research. The current mixed-design study aims to explore \nvic…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
Migrants as ‘pawns’
This article explores how Europe’s border crises in the post refugee ‘crisis’ years were discussed in the micro-blog Twitter, through an in-depth analysis of boundary making. Our focus is on the tweets of the top influencers of the hashtag #IStandWithGreece who strategically promoted ideologies ranging from white supremacism to Greek nationalism, glued together by an antimigrant stance during a border ‘crisis’ at Europe’s periphery. This network …
Understanding the three levels of resilience
The huge growth in expenditure on counter‐extremism and counter‐terrorism policy post 9/11 (Dawson & Guinnessy, 2002; Lum, Kennedy, & Sherley, 2006; Silke, 2004) has seen buzzwords such as “resilience” integrated without clear framing or the underpinning of empirical evidence. The issue addressed by the current study is twofold: the framing of resilience within policy is not such that it clearly relates to extremism and, the subsequent lack of un…
Inducing similarities and differences in imagined contact
To enhance the prejudice-reducing effects of imagined contact we investigated a novel form of imagined contact (“balanced similarity”) which emphasized both similarities and differences between the ingroup(er) and the outgroup(er). Experiment 1 compared balanced similarity with conditions inducing only differences or only similarities. “Balanced similarity” led to more positive outgroup attitudes; its differences with the “high similarity” condit…
An experimental comparison of direct and indirect intergroup contact
When sex is more than just sex
Rates of sexual assault remain high in Jamaica, although victims are often reluctant to report incidences to the police. Those cases which are reported by victims are investigated by the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Centre for Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA). Whilst improvements have been noted in recent years, human rights organisations have highlighted on-going limitations of such investigations and the effective interviewing of victim…
Understanding the three levels of resilience
The huge growth in expenditure on counter‐extremism and counter‐terrorism policy post 9/11 (Dawson & Guinnessy, 2002; Lum, Kennedy, & Sherley, 2006; Silke, 2004) has seen buzzwords such as “resilience” integrated without clear framing or the underpinning of empirical evidence. The issue addressed by the current study is twofold: the framing of resilience within policy is not such that it clearly relates to extremism and, the subsequent lack of un…
Understanding media debate around migration
Continuous and increasing worldwide migration has sparked an intense social debate in multiple forums. Media play a key role in constructing, monitoring, and framing this debate. This study focuses on a qualitative analysis of the media debate around migration in Cyprus via (a) studying how migrants are represented in the Greek Cypriot Press and (b) assessing the extent and the way in which favorable and unfavorable representations around migrati…
The role of Hexaco personality traits in different kinds of sexting
Opening the black box of contact
While there is growing support for the prejudice‐reduction effects of imagined contact, knowledge of the content of imagery in imagined contact studies remains scarce. This qualitative study aims to address this gap by unravelling the ways of imagining an intergroup encounter that is indeed positive. Our data consist of the imagined contact stories of 43 participants in two imagined contact studies conducted in Cyprus, a post‐conflict context cha…
The Relationship between Dark Triad Personality Traits and Sexting Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults across 11 Countries
The present study provided empirical evidence that different sexting behaviors were predicted by Dark Triad Personality Traits, showing a relevant role of Machiavellianism in all kinds of investigated sexting behaviors. Research, clinical, and education implications for prevention programs are discussed
Reporting missing children to the police
Releasing missing person appeals is common practice when someone goes missing. Despite the wide-scale usage, the understanding on appeal effectiveness remains under-researched. This article aims to identify the factors that influence the likelihood of members of the public to report a child that has gone missing to the police and requires police assistance. Participant responses ( n = 252) were qualitatively analysed identifying four factors that…
Migrants as ‘pawns’
This article explores how Europe’s border crises in the post refugee ‘crisis’ years were discussed in the micro-blog Twitter, through an in-depth analysis of boundary making. Our focus is on the tweets of the top influencers of the hashtag #IStandWithGreece who strategically promoted ideologies ranging from white supremacism to Greek nationalism, glued together by an antimigrant stance during a border ‘crisis’ at Europe’s periphery. This network …
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook
This study provides a comparative analysis of collective meaning-making processes by unpacking activists’ discourses (within and in relation to their polis) and online (on Facebook) during the financial, post-financial, and COVID-19 crises in Greece (2011–2021). By analyzing 71 semi-structured interviews with activists and 14,475 Facebook posts, we first evaluate actors’ identity progression, then identify the differences and commonalities betwee…
Foreshadowing Terror
Previous research has highlighted the prominent behavior of lone wolf terrorists to produce and share a manifesto publicly, outlining their frustrations and motivations for their eventual terrorist attack. This article aims to explore this phenomenon, focusing on the timelapse between when a terrorist manifesto is posted online and when the eventual attack occurs, discussing the time difference between the two events for 12 cases of lone wolf ter…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
Policy vs reality
Social media platforms have become a prominent feature in modern-day communication, allowing users to express opinion and communicate with friends and likeminded individuals. However, with this revolutionary form of communication comes risks of exploitation and utilisation of these platforms for potentially illegal and harmful means. This article aims to explore the community guidelines and policies of prominent social media sites regarding extre…
Sexual Offending
The Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) is a framework developed within Invest-igative Psychology, which combines the emotions and narrative roles experienced by the offender during the commission of their offense, to understand their personal experience of crime . Previous research proposes four distinct themes within CNE; The Elated Hero, The Calm Professional, The Distressed Revenger, and The Depressed Victim , however little attention has yet…
Videography as performance’ in the service of social movement visibility and interaction amidst the pandemic
This study aims to contribute to scholarship on online video activism by looking at mobilization videos created by the Support Art Workers (SAW) movement which emerged during the COVID-19 crisis in Greece. Our main observation is that several SAW videos consist of an assemblage of performance art elements and protest visuals which together with expressive uses of video production exemplify a “videography as performance” approach. We examine three…
Time to Bear Arms
There has been a noticeable rise in the number of mass shootings occurring in the US over the last decade with these attacks often being committed by a lone actor. This article aims to explore this, focusing on the time suspension between when the lone actor acquires their firearm and when they commit their attack. The cases involved all occurred in the US and all perpetrators obtained their firearms legally. The results found that, on average, l…
Dating Applications
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where sextortionists identify potential victims and lure them into extortion and victimization. Limited research and media coverage has revealed that sextortion can cause significant harm, with victims reporting negative psychological consequences, such as de…
No One Believed Me, and I Have No proof
Spiking has become increasingly more prevalent since the 1990s, with drugs \nsuch as Rohypnol, Ketamine and GHB commonly being put unknowingly into \npeople’s drinks in nightclubs. More recently, spiking through the use of \na needle has become more prevalent in the nighttime economy, with this \nand the other more commonly known methods of spiking (drink, food) all \nbeing limited in research. The current mixed-design study aims to explore \nvic…
Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Homicide
Imagining positive contact across the conflict divide
The Romantic Psychopath? Investigating How Psychopathic Traits and Stalking Victimization Apply to the Context of Romantic Relationships
While researchers have previously been interested in investigating and understanding psychopathy, much of this research has focussed on criminal psychopaths, and the area of non-criminal psychopathy has remained largely under-researched, particularly surrounding romantic relationships. The present study explored how the traits of psychopathy impact romantic relationships between a psychopathic individual and a non-psychopathic partner and also ex…
Gen Z Hybristophilia
This research explores hybristophilia (an individual’s sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes) among Generation Z women, particularly through investigating how Gen Z female users interact with and feel about hybristophilic content and how this content impacts their attraction to offenders. Study 1 involved a content analysis of 66 videos and 91 comments on TikTok, identifying seven main themes: The Halo Effect, ActorOffender…
Hybrid leadership and its impact on organisational performance and innovation
This study examines how senior leaders at Bahrain's General Sports Authority (GSA), a public governmental authority operating within Bahrain's state administrative framework, enact hybrid leadership to enhance organisational performance and innovation. Drawing on nine semi-structured interviews with senior GSA executives, the study employs a qualitative, exploratory design and applies Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-phase thematic analysis to ident…
Classifying Incel Offenders
Due to the relatively recent formation of the involuntary celibate (incel) community, there is limited research on the topic of incel-motivated offenses and offenders. The current study was designed to create a model to classify incel offenders, using media and secondary sources. The results of the study created a core region of variables that are central to incel incidents, as well as two themes: Violent Criminal and Disturbed Loner. The finding…
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