Magazine staff

Sian Jones

Dr. Siân Jones is an Early Career Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She researches the social developmental psychology of friendship groups and blogs at: http://throughtheacademiclookingglass.wordpress.com. You can also follow her on Twitter, @Sianoxbrookes. 

Gudrun Dobslaw

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Dobslaw is a Professor for Counseling and Psychosocial Intervention at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. As a practitioner, she has extensive experience working with clients, especially those who are at risk of participation restrictions and social stigmatization. One of her research interests relates to how social roles are constituted and reproduced in the interaction between groups of actors in social work from an ethnomethodological perspective.

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Eric-Jan ("EJ") Wagenmakers is a mathematical psychologist and a dedicated Bayesian. He works for the Psychological Methods unit at the University of Amsterdam and he is PI on the European Research Council grant "Bayes or Bust: Sensible Hypothesis Tests for Social Scientist", a grant that recently spawned the JASP program (www.jasp-stats.org).

Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin, Ph.D. (Social and Personality Psychology), is the Director for Faculty Development & Leadership at Wright State University and former Program Director for the LEADER Consortium, a multi-institutional NSF ADVANCE program supporting gender equity in STEM in the greater Dayton, OH region. Her research interests include: social power, impression formation, implicit social cognition, prejudice confrontation and reducing intergroup bias.

Jakob Kasper

  Jakob Kasper is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks Programme (IP-PAD, No. 101072992) and former graduate intern at Public First. He studies affective polarization - how feelings about one’s own group versus other groups develop and change - especially in multi-party systems and among adolescents.

Jan Alexander Häusser

Jan Häusser received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2010. Jan currently holds a professorship for social psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. His research interests comprise social identity and stress, occupational health psychology and social decision making, with a focus on the effects of psycho-physiological impairments (e.g., stress, sleep deprivation) on social decision making. Jan can be contacted via email at jan.a.haeusser@psychol.uni-giessen.de.

Ann-Christin Posten

Ann-Christin Posten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne. Upon receiving her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2012, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Ann-Christin’s research focuses on distrust and cognitive information processing.

Peter J. Van Koppen

Peter J. Van Koppen is a psychologist and professor of legal psychology at VU University Amsterdam and Maastricht University. His main research interest is the structure of evidence in criminal cases.

Jessica Maxwell

Jessica Maxwell is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she co-leads the REACH (Researching Emotions, Attachment, Close Relationships & Health) Lab. Her research examines how key principles of social cognition inform relational and sexual well-being, and how interdependent relationship processes uniquely inform theoretical perspectives on social cognition. In particular, she assesses how individual differences in expectations and perceptions influence sexual and relationship well-being, examining factors such as how individuals expect they can best maintain sexual satisfaction, what they expect from casual sex encounters, and how accurate they are in detecting their partners’ feelings and sexual preferences.

Jim A. C. Everett

Jim Everett studied for his undergraduate at the University of Oxford, gaining a First Class degree in Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology. He completed his undergraduate thesis under Prof. Miles Hewstone in the field of intergroup conflict, before completing an MSc, again with Prof Hewstone. Jim is currently working towards his D.Phil at the University of Oxford, working primarily on research at the intersection of altruism and intergroup conflict.