Constantine Sedikides is a Professor of Social and Personality Psychology within the Psychology Department at the University of Southampton. He graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1982. He received a Master's degree in developmental psychology from Fordham University, USA, in 1984; a Master's degree in social psychology from The Ohio State University, USA, in 1986; and his Ph.D. in social psychology from The Ohio State University in 1988. Prof. Sedikides began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, as an Assistant Professor from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, he moved, as an Associate Professor, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1997. Two years later, he joined the Psychology Department, University of Southampton, England, as the Director of the Center for Research on Self and Identity. His research interests include self-evaluation motives (self-enhancement, self-protection, self-improvement), motivation, cultural influences on self-evaluation motives, and narcissism. Prof. Sedikides is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the British Psychological Society, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.