Magazine staff

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.

Janina Steinmetz

Janina Steinmetz is an Assistant Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at Utrecht University. She received her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2014, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business until 2016, when she moved to Utrecht. Janina’s work deals with people’s motivation and self-control in a social context.   

Robert Horselenberg

Robert Horselenberg is assistant professor in legal psychology at the law faculty of Maastricht University. His research focuses on evidence gathering – investigative interviewing, perception of evidence, cold case investigations etc. He also is appointed as expert witness on a regular basis.

Alan Jern

Alan Jern is a cognitive scientist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He primarily studies social cognition. He writes about psychology and TV at OverthinkingTV.com.  

Sander Koole

Sander L. Koole is an Associate Professor at the VU University in Amsterdam. His research focuses on emotion regulation and action control. He has recently received a grant from the European Research Council to conduct research on the role of the body in emotion regulation.

Mario Herberz

Mario Herberz studied psychology with a focus on cognitive, social and decision psychology at the University of Heidelberg. He then completed his doctorate at the University of Geneva at the interface of environmental, consumer and decision psychology. He is particularly interested in systematic biases in decision-making behavior, heuristic decision rules, choice architecture and improving policy design in the environmental, health and social domain with a behavioral sciences approach.

Alba Jasini

Alba Jasini received her bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Tirana. She has recently earned her MSc in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, focused on social and organizational psychology. During her master studies she studied group-based humiliation and hatred together with Dr. Doosje, Dr. Jonas and Prof. Fischer. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Tirana, Social Sciences Faculty. Her research interests include intergroup emotions and relations.

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

Travis E. Dorsch

Dr. Travis E. Dorsch is an Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Families in Sport Lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Utah State University. His research targets the persons and contexts that have the potential to influence or be influenced by athletes’ behaviors, attitudes, experiences, and outcomes in youth sport. His research findings are used by sport governing bodies within the U.S. Olympic movement, recreational and elite youth sport organizations, and sport coaches and parents to construct more developmentally appropriate sport contexts and to evaluate the role of youth sport in contemporary society.
Twitter/X: @BigSkyBoiler, @FamiliesInSport