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Melina Niraki

Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

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Melina Niraki is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece, where Niraki has been based since 2023. Niraki's research examines future anxiety among young people and its relationship to political attitudes and ideology, with work extending to questions of adolescence and emotion regulation. A recent publication investigates how future anxiety shapes political orientations among youth in the United Kingdom and Greece.

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Future anxiety and political attitudes among young people

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Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece

By Olaf Borghi, Melina Niraki, Ermioni Seremeta, Kaat Smets, & Manos Tsakiris

October 10, 2025

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