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Hans IJzerman - Editor-in-chief
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Hans IJzerman, the Editor-in-Chief of In-Mind magazine, received his Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Saint Vincent College in the United States. After minoring in French and Spanish as an undergrad, he chose to continue to focus on languages, studying Portuguese in Brazil. Once he returned to the Netherlands, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology from VU University. He pursued his PhD in Social Psychology at Utrecht University under the guidance of Dr. Semin and Dr. Cohen, with his main research focus on the socially situated cultural mind, centered around metaphor and embodied components of culture. He is now an assistant professor at VU University, Amsterdam.
Romee Houben - Director of Public Relations
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Romee completed her bachelor degrees in Social and Clinical Psychology at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). After finishing her master degree in clinical psychology at this university in 2009, she started as a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She currently does research in the ontogenetic background of the effects of temperature on social interaction.
Keith Dowd - Public Relations
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Keith Dowd received his BS in Psychology at Appalachian State University and recently received his MA in Experimental Psychology from Wake Forest University in North Carolina where he studied counterfactuals and human judgment and decision making with Dr. John Petrocelli. His thesis work included the authoring of a new model for understanding the anchoring and adjustment heuristic which incorporates metacognitions and integrates earlier research that has previously investigated external and internal anchors separately. His other research interests include the psychology of video games and interactive media and how they can be used as tools within both social psychological research and educational settings. Presently he is employed as the Lab Manager for the Adult Development Research Institute at North Carolina State University under the advisement of Dr. Thomas Hess.
Suzanne van Gils - Associate Editor
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Suzanne van Gils (Netherlands) completed her Bachelor and Master’s degree in social psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her main research interests are power, leadership and followership, interpersonal processes and interdependence. Suzanne is currently a PhD student at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where she concentrates on leader-follower reciprocal relationships under supervision of Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Dr. Daan van Knippenberg. As a member of In-Mind, Suzanne hopes to enrich the knowledge of the general public with findings from psychological research.
Selin Kesebir - Associate Editor
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Selin Kesebir received her BA degrees in International Relations and Economics at Koç University in Turkey. In 2004, she received an M.A. from Northwestern University in Cognitive Psychology. Currently she is a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at University of Virginia, working on different aspects of human morality with Jon Haidt.
Ashley Waggoner - Associate Editor
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Ashley Waggoner received her B.S. from the University of Toronto in 2006, where she worked with Dr. William Cunningham. Currently she is working toward her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Indiana University, where she works with Dr. Eliot Smith. She has a wide-range of research interests, which generally involve examining the influence of specific social contextual factors on our thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and impressions of other people. Some current lines of research include examining the role of social context in implicit emotion priming, and investigating the role of gossip (and other dynamic processes) in person perception.
Tila Pronk - Associate Editor
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Tila Pronk (Netherlands) is currently a Ph. D. student at Radboud University Nijmegen. She works under the supervision of Dr. Karremans, where she studies forgiveness in close relationships. Ms. Pronk obtained both her bachelor’s degree as well as her master’s degree from VU University in Amsterdam.
Clare N. Jonas - Associate Editor
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Clare N. Jonas heirs from the United Kingdom, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Warwick University. She pursued a Master's Degree in Neuroscience at VU University in Amsterdam, and has recently commenced a Ph. D. Studentship in Sussex. Her area of expertise is in human neuroscience, where she is particularly interested in synaesthesia, consciousness, and vision.
Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker - Associate Editor
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Randi is currently at Ohio State University, where she is working towards her Ph.D. in psychology. She received her B.A. in psychology and communication from Monmouth College, in Illinois, and her M.A. in psychology at Ohio State University. Her research examines the experience of engagement, or immersion in a present activity, and moderators of the relationship between effort and engagement.
Malgorzata Goclowska - Member-at-large
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Malgorzata Goclowska (shortly Gosia) completed a Masters Degree in Psychology at the University of Warsaw. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Kent in Canterbury, in the research group of Richard Crisp. Her research is testing the idea that exposure to diversity and perception of surprising social category combinations (i.e. of people who are counter-stereotypical) can influence creativity. Apart from diversity and social psychology of creativity, she is also interested in the broader fields of intergroup relations and political psychology. Having some background experience in journalism, she is eager to contribute to a broader understanding of psychology and thinks that scientists should communicate their research to the general public. She is also working for Roeland – an organization from Belgium promoting language skills in youths, and has a keen interest in landscape photography.
Jason A. Cantone - Member-at-large
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Jason A. Cantone completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an honors thesis advised by Dr. Neal Roese. He is currently in a joint J.D./Ph.D. program in Law and Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the supervision of Dr. Richard Wiener, and intends to finish his J.D. and M.A. in Social Psychology in May 2008. His research focuses on counterfactual thinking, social cognition as related to juror decision making, Title VII discrimination in workplace settings (religious and sexual harassment), and public policy decision making processes. All of his work seeks to bridge the gap between social psychological literature and the workings of the American judicial and/or legislative system. Jason coordinates In-Mind's Facebook quiz and may be contacted for all questions and comments regarding this quiz.
René Kopietz - Member-at-large
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René received his "Psychologie-Diplom" (German equivalent to a Master's degree) in March, 2005 at the University of Cologne, Germany. Since then he has worked investigating audience tuning effects on memory at Bielefeld University, Germany. René is in the final stage of his PhD in social psychology, but is now employed at Jacobs University Bremen. Among other things, he is interested in memory in its social context. Specifically, how people's own communication about an object (e.g., a person) may change their representation for that object; what kind of cues people use when forming memory judgments; how people create and maintain shared representations, especially of their past (i.e., collective memory). René is part of the In-Mind quiz team and will happily answer (or die trying) all questions you may have regarding social psychology, or social cognition research. As of recent, René has also taken up the challenge to launch the German version of In-Mind!
Ellie Shockley - Member-at-large
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Elizabeth Shockley is currently a doctoral student under Penny Visser in the Social Psychology Program at the University of Chicago. While earning her B.S. in Psychology from Duke University, she worked in several social psychology labs. For two years following graduation, she worked as a research coordinator in a clinical psychology lab. At Chicago she studies political psychology, and her research interests include political ideology and political participation. You can find her personal page here.
Pelin Kesebir - Member-at-large
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Pelin Kesebir received her B.A. degree in International Relations and Psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores different aspects of existential human motivation and its implications for individual and societal well-being.
Lori Rosenthal - Member-at-large
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Lori Rosenthal received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Applied Social/Personality Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and her B.A., with high honors in Psychology from Brandeis University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Lasell College in Newton, MA where she teaches a variety of courses including Group Dynamics, Child Development, Introduction to Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Consumer Behavior. She also serves as the Connected Learning Coordinator encouraging faculty and students to make apply academic knowledge to real-world issues and behaviors. Her research focuses on the impact of emotion on cognitive processes both from a theoretical standpoint as well as applications in person perception, health communication, and persuasion. Some of her recent work involves an investigation into the persuasive impact of pro-anorexia websites.
Lorena Ruci - Member-at-large
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Lorena Ruci hails from Albania and after receiving her BA from Mount Allison University, where she studied Psychology and Economics, she received a Masters Degree in Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada where she is currently pursuing her PhD in Experimental Psychology. Lorenas research interests revolve around Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology, touching on themes such asfalse memories, visual perception for emotional information, helping behaviour in an altruistic/egoistical framework,and well-being in the workplace. In her spare time she enjoys jewelry making, volleyball and Spanish rap.If you have interesting or provoking social psychological quotes, you may submit them to Lorena Ruci.
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