Magazine staff

Justin Saddlemyer

Justin Saddlemyer is a doctoral student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He received his graduate degree in social psychology from Vrije Universiteit under the supervision of Hans IJzerman in 2011, and he now studies the role visual attention plays in self-control decisions.

Lea Sperlich

Lea Sperlich completed her bachelor's degree in business psychology (B.A.) at the Rheinische Fachhochschule in 2013 and then studied psychology (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) at the University of Cologne. Since 2018, she has been doing her doctorate there at the Chair of General Psychology II. The focus of her research is evaluative conditioning and its influence on behavior and differences in the perception of people. She works in the blog team at In-Mind Germany.

Kai Jonas

Kai Jones is working as an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the Social Psychology Program group of the University of Amsterdam. In social cognition, he is doing research on automatic behavior, more specifically, how social categories automatically activate responses directed towards them. Furthermore, he is developing a comprehensive approach to automatic behavior analyzing the interplay of individual characteristics (goals, automatic activation of attributes, attention and behavior) and situational appraisal.

Dana Hofmann

Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan recently received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Arizona, where he was a Flinn Scholar. His research and theoretical interests include terror management theory, and culture and film analysis. He will begin graduate studies in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas in fall 2008.

Julian Henz

Julian Henz is a research assistant at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sports Informatics of the German Sport University Cologne. He started his sports sciences studies in 2013, and took up his mathematical studies in 2015. In 2021, he graduated in both and is currently investigating fundamental aspects of route setting in indoor bouldering as part of his doctorate. In addition to his research activities, he works as a professional route setter and is the operations manager of Get High Routesetting GmbH.

Silvia Barriga

Silvia V. Barriga Recasens received her Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Universidad de La Sabana in Bogota, Colombia. She continued her education at the Free University, Amsterdam, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology. Mrs. Barriga Recasens decided to stray from the path of research, and is currently employed in Human Resources at General Electric in London.

Johanna Kranz

Dr. Johanna Kranz is a post-doc for climate communication and climate education at the Rhineland-Palatinate Competence Center for Climate Change Impacts. She studied biology, German and German as a foreign language at the University of Trier and completed her doctorate in biology didactics at the University of Vienna. As a lecturer, her educational programs in the field of environment and climate have received awards, including the “Education for Sustainable Development Award” from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Change and Climate Policy. Her research focuses on action-oriented climate communication, climate education and social change.

Chelsea Ellithorpe

Chelsea Ellithorpe is an Assessment Analyst II at Auburn University. She earned her BA degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology from Boston University in 2011 and her MS degree in Social-Experimental Psychology from Mississippi State University in 2013. Her primary research interests are in social neuroscience and interpersonal relationships, including social networks research and research on love and attraction.

Roland Imhoff

Prof. Roland Imhoff is chair for social and legal psychology at the University of Mainz, Germany. His research interests cover conspiracy mentality, categorization and stereotyping, representations of history, cognitive biases, and social comparisons. @rolandimhoff.bsky.social