Sian Jones
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.
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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).
Ohad Szepsenwol
Ohad Szepsenwol
Dr. Ohad Szepsenwol is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. He studies individual differences in parenting, mating, and relationship dynamics from social, devleopmental, and evolutionary perspectives.
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth (UK). His primary research interests are nonverbal and verbal cues to deception. His book Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities, published by Wiley in 2008, provides a comprehensive overview of deception and lie detection research. He advises the police about conducting interviews with suspects, and gives invited talks and workshops on lie detection to practitioners and scholars across the world, including police, homeland security, defense, judges, solicitors, social workers, fraud investigators, insurers and bankers.
Carolina Lunde
Carolina Lunde
Carolina Lunde, PhD is an associate professor in psychology, and works at the department of psychology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research interests include adolescent development in relation to self- and body image, sexuality, internet, and social relations.
Tobias Heycke
Tobias Heycke
Tobias Heycke studied psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen and received his PhD from the University of Cologne, where he researched the development of preferences through conditioning. Currently, he is a post-doc at “GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences” in Mannheim, where he works on promoting open and transparent research practices. He is an ambassador for the Center for Open Science and a catalyst of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences.
Sophie G. Elschner
Sophie G. Elschner
Dr. Sophie G. Elschner wrote her doctoral thesis in empirical aesthetics at the University of Konstanz. There she studied whether our aesthetic judgments of paintings go hand in hand with our eye movements. Later she worked as a postdoc at the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Integrated Energy Systems for the science of science communication of the energy transition. She is also the author and artist behind psychoSoph, the comic on psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. You can find Sophie on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter and follow the psychoSoph comic on social media on Instagram, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Twitter. E-Mail: psychoSoph@yahoo.com
Leila Selimbegović
Leila Selimbegović
Leila Selimbegović received her Ph.D. from University of Paris Descartes (France) in 2007. She then spent two years as a post-doc at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and is currently Lecturer at the University of Poitiers (France). Her research mainly concerns self-related phenomena, focusing more particularly on autobiographical memory, personal failure, existential concerns, and self-stereotyping. She can be reached at leila.selimbegovic@univ-poitiers.fr.
Greg Strong
Greg Strong
Greg recently received his Ph.D. in social and health psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Family Institute at Florida State University. His research interests focus on investigating the associations of positive and negative affect and approach and avoidance motivational goals with romantic relationship quality.