Magazine staff

John Doe

obtained her Research Master’s degree in Social and Organisational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She was recently awarded a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to examine the effects of belonging on the academic performance of minority students. She also conducts research on the effects of (simulated) touch on social cognition.

Maximilian Schmaußer

University Hospital Cologne, Germany

Chris Buchholz

Chris Buchholz received a bachelor degree from Virginia Tech, a Master’s Degree from Appalachian State University, and a doctorate in social psychology from Florida Atlantic University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Roanoke College and his research interests include self-concept, music and emotions, cross-cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, and the application of dynamical systems theory to social psychology. Mail:buchholz@roanoke.edu

Jeremias Braid

Jeremias Braid is a PhD student at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Austria. In his work, he investigates the effects of perceptual-cognitive virtual reality interventions on the cognitive abilities of soccer players. Both behavioral as well as neurobiological effects count to his areas of interest and are considered in his PhD project.
Twitter/X: @jeremias_braid

Suzanne van Gils

Suzanne van Gils completed her Bachelor in Social and Organizational Psychology at the Free University, Amsterdam. She currently is pursuing a Master of Science at the same university. While her previous research has focused on vicarious embarrassment, she currently studies relationships and emotions. Her aim within these two subfields in social psychology center around the study of mood contagion, power in relationships, and love. She is also the editor-in-chief of The Free Mind

Birte Siem

Birte Siem studied psychology at the University of Trier and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and completed her PhD at the FernUniversität in Hagen. Since 2021, she is a professor of Social and Organizational Psychology of Social Work at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Her research focuses on intra- and intergroup processes, prosocial behavior, social inequality, and approaches to reducing stereotypes and prejudice.

Jarret Crawford

Jarret Crawford is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. He earned his PhD in Social Psychology from Rutgers University in 2008. His primary research interests are in political psychology and intergroup relations.

Matt Newman

Joanna Korman

Joanna Korman, Sc.M., M.Phil., is a Ph.D.  candidate at Brown University in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences. Her research explores how typically developing individuals and people on the autism spectrum solve the most challenging puzzles of social life.  As a part of Brown’s New Scientist and undergraduate advising initiatives, she has mentored first-generation and minority undergraduate women aspiring to careers in the sciences.   

Chris Martin

Chris Martin is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Emory University. He earned an MA in psychology from the College of William and Mary in 2012. His research interests include personality change, political attitudes, problematic affluence, and happiness.