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Jens Förster

Jens Förster is a professor at the University of Amsterdam. He is interested in examining basic principles of motivation and information processing and its implications for: stereotypes and prejudice, accessibility of thoughts and goals, approach and avoidance motivation, risk perception and behavior, creative and analytic thinking, self regulation and self control, novelty, time construal, thinking styles, meta cognition, memory, decision making, aggression, consumer behavior, organizational psychology, speed/accuracy tradeoffs.

Damien Brevers

Damien Brevers is Assistant Professor at the Psychological Sciences Research Institute of UCLouvain. His research programme consists in adopting translational and multi-markers approaches (EEG, fMRI, rTMS, psychophysiology) for better understanding neurocognitive processes involved into the initiation and the maintenance of (mal)adaptive habits as applied to physical activity, elite sports, pro-ecological behaviors, as well as addictive disorders.

Michele Lastella

Dr. Michele Lastella (PhD in Psychology), Senior Lecturer at the Appleton Institute for Behavioural Science, CQUniversity. His primary area of research concerns the study of sleep in elite athletes. He has worked and currently works with several sporting organisations examining sleep, recovery, and performance.

Clare Jonas

Clare Jonas hails from the United Kingdom, where she received her Bachelor of Science in psychology from Warwick University. She pursued a Masters degree in neuroscience at the Free University in Amsterdam before returning to the UK to do a PhD in psychology at the University of Sussex. After completing her PhD, she worked as a teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of East London. Her area of expertise is human cognition, and she is particularly interested in synaesthesia, numerical cognition, and embodiment. Mail: c.jonas@in-mind.org

Denise Vesper

Denise Vesper studied psychology at Saarland University with a focus on industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology and received her doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from Saarland University in 2023. Her research focuses in particular on strikes, but also on social psychological topics such as system justification and populist attitudes. Twitter: @denise_vesper    

Helen Boucher

Helen Boucher received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently an Associate Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Broadly, her research interests concern social influences on the self. Specific projects include how self-knowledge, self-evaluation, and self-regulation are impacted by culture, important relationship partners, and threats to meaning systems such as uncertainty and mortality salience. E-mail: h.boucher@in-mind.org

Barbara Hadolt

Barbara Hadolt is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, currently based in Graz, Austria, where she also completed her psychology studies. In addition to her work as a psycho-oncologist, she spent many years working as a systemic family therapist in her own practice in Munich, working with individuals, couples and families. Her therapeutic experience was also significantly shaped by her role as a therapist in a psychosomatic clinic and an outpatient children’s hospice service for several years. Currently, she works as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the LKH - Landeskrankenhaus Graz.

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Justine Kohl

Justine Kohl completed her MA Degree in linguistics at the University of Bielefeld. During and after her studies, she worked there for several years as a research assistant in the Department of Language and Communication. She is currently working as a research assistant in Project RESPOND! at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. In the context of her dissertation, she would like to microanalytically explore subtle and interactive manifestations of antisemitic hate speech with the use of conversation analysis. 

Nicole Janz

Nicole Janz is a political scientist and teaches research methods for social scientists at Cambridge University. She publishes the Political Science Replication Blog and co-founded the Political Science Replication Initiative which maintains a repository for replication studies. Her peer-reviewed article "Bringing the Gold Standard Into the Class Room: Replication in University Teaching” is forthcoming in International Studies Perspectives. In her own research Nicole examines the effects of multinational corporations and their foreign investment on human rights protection.

Twitter:@polscireplicate