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09/2026

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them
- written by
- Lara Watermann,
- Natalie Hogh,
- Joshua Braun,
- Simone Kubowitsch
Teams today collaborate across screens, time zones, and digital tools, but better technology does not always mean better teamwork. Hybrid meetings, information overload, and workflows supported by artificial intelligence (AI) create new challenges. Drawing on expert insights and psychological research, this article explores which team skills matter most and how teams can build them.
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08/2026 - SpeciaI issue on artificial intelligence

How humans form beliefs about conversational AI
- written by
- Tobias R. Rebholz
Why do we treat Alexa or ChatGPT like a helpful coworker – or even a friend? This article explores how talking to conversational AI shapes the beliefs we form about machines.
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08/2026 - SpeciaI issue on artificial intelligence

Why putting humans in the loop can make decision-making with AI worse
- written by
- Tobias Rieger,
- Dietrich Manzey,
- Eileen Roesler,
- Linda Onnasch
AI’s decisions are often comprised with a human in the loop. Why? The person tries to improve the decisions but ends up making it worse despite good intentions. Our need to contribute interferes with these systems. In this article, we discuss this issue and whether explainable AI can foster true human-AI teamwork for better choices.
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08/2026 - SpeciaI issue on artificial intelligence

Editorial for the special issue "Artificial intelligence, real consequences: Exploring the psychological dimensions of AI"
- written by
- Magdalena Wischnewski,
- Stella Wernicke
Not long ago, artificial intelligence was mostly found in science fiction and computer science departments. Today, it drafts our emails, recommends our next purchase, tutors our children, and occasionally tells us it understands how we feel. This shift has happened so quickly that our psychological vocabulary is still catching up. What does it mean to trust a system that has no body, no history, and no stake in the outcome but communicates like us? Why do we sometimes treat a chatbot with the same politeness we'd extend to a colleague, and other times discard it the moment it makes a...
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Join the In-Mind team: Help us make psychology accessible to everyone!

written by: Rinat Meerson, Stella Wernicke, Jana Dreston
Magazine Issue 09/2026

Teamwork today and tomorrow: The skills that matter and how to build them

written by: Lara Watermann, Natalie Hogh, Joshua Braun, Simone Kubowitsch
In-Mind Blog

After "Adolescence": What we know (and don’t know) about gender attitudes and online misogyny

written by: Kate Schramm, Silvana Weber
Magazine Issue 08/2026 - SpeciaI issue on artificial intelligence

Benefits and risks of asking AI for health advice

written by: Jaroslava Kaňková

Magazine Issue 01/2019

Refugees wel(l)come: The impact of social support on refugees’ well-being

written by: Ina-Maria Döring

To date, the refugee crisis has been a central issue for society and associated with several challenges. This article focuses on the well-being of refugees as a basis for successful... more
Magazine Issue 01/2019

From Pervasive Beliefs To Wrongful Convictions

written by: Enide Maegherman, Robert Horselenberg, Karl Ask, Peter J. Van Koppen

Popular series like “Making a Murderer” and “The Confession Tapes” have raised public awareness of the possibility of wrongful convictions. Can cognitive psychology resolve why evidence of innocence is overlooked in... more
Magazine Issue 01/2019

Sorry, Not Sorry: Apologies and Denials in the #MeToo Movement

written by: Chris Reinders Folmer

The #MeToo-movement publicly confronts alleged perpetrators of sexual misconduct with their transgressions. In return, the accused often struggle with the question of how to reply. What can research about trust... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

written by: Carey Marr, Melanie Sauerland, Henry Otgaar, Conny Quaedflieg, Lorraine Hope

Although we often perceive the effect of stress negatively, research suggests that stress effects are not always detrimental. This review paper examines the impact that acute stress has on memory... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

Risk assessment tools and criminal reoffending: Does bias determine who is “high risk”?

written by: Jennifer Kamorowski, Maartje Schreuder, Corine de Ruiter, Marko Jelícic, Karl Ask

In The Netherlands in 1993, a man named Thomas was convicted of an arson in which no one was injured. Thomas was sentenced to four years in prison and involuntary... more
Magazine Issue 09/2018

Understanding Online Child Sexual Abuse and How to Talk to Children About it

written by: Malin Joleby, Carolina Lunde, Linda Jonsson

The new digital technology provides children with endless opportunities to explore and communicate. Still, it is important to prepare them for potential risks that they might encounter online, just as... more

In-Mind Blog

30.05.2014 | Violence & Aggression

Coping with being bullied

written by: Matt Newman

In this blog post, I discuss recent research suggesting that being the victim of bullying can have a long-lasting impact on mental and physical health. But there’s a ray of hope in this literature as well: the lasting impact may depend on the ways that victims cope with being bullied. more
28.05.2014 | Political Psychology

Political ideology is more than just “liberal” and “conservative”

written by: Jarret Crawford

In this blog post, I describe new evidence that thinking about political ideology on a single liberal/left to conservative/right spectrum masks important nuances in the origins of political ideologies and in the way that people apply those ideologies to important judgments, including those of other people (i.e., prejudice). more
13.05.2014 | Social Influence & Negotiations

Would One Direction be as popular if we got to re-run the world?

written by: Ase Innes-Ker

In this post I ask why do songs, movies and books become popular? If you love something, it is easy to think it must be its obvious qualities, but if you work in promotion, you know that these qualities are not easy to spot. Usually, we look to our peers to discover new things – what Psychologists call social proof. The work I present shows how important social proof is in determining what becomes popular, but also that appeal, to some degree, matters. more
05.05.2014 | Culture

Can music create intercultural understanding? According to Madonna (and psychological research), it can!

written by: Marieke van Egmond

In my last blog, I argued that Madonna’s lyric of ‘music makes the people come together’ has a scientific basis. There are scientific studies that support the claim that music indeed increases cooperation and, thus, brings people together. But, as you might remember, the second line in the chorus of Madonna’s song is: ‘Music mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel’. In this blog, I will discuss whether she is citing the literature correctly or not. more
02.05.2014 | Solid Science

Pre-registration watch part 1: Detecting deception

written by: Anna van 't Veer

In this blog post, I will report on the experiences of social psychologists, such as myself, with committing ourselves to detailed descriptions of the hypotheses and other specifics of experiments before we run them. In part 1, I briefly cover some basics about this so-called pre-registration and then I will discuss my own experience with a pre-registration in the online journal Frontiers about unconscious deception detection. more
28.04.2014 | Meaning Making

Free will without metaphysics

written by: Andrew Monroe

Despite the resurgence of interest in free will, there remains confusion and disagreement regarding free will’s role in social life, in particular, how people understand free will and whether free will guides blame and praise for others. In this blog post I argue that we need to pay closer attention to the folk concept of free will in order to resolve the confusion surrounding free will in everyday life. more