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Sebastian Wallot

Sebastian Wallot is professor of psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. He received a diploma in psychology from the University of Trier (Germany) in 2008, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Cincinnati, OH (USA) in 2011. His research interested are dynamic systems applications to psychology, particularly the development of time series analysis tools, the role of synchrony in joint action, and reading comprehension.

Sanja Djordjevic

Sanja Djordjevic works on In-Mind's blog section. She is currently finishing her master studies in Social Psychology at Tilburg University, and has completed a bachelor degree in Psychology at the University of Sheffield, and a master degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Leiden. She has mostly done research within the field of unconscious processes, including topics such as the effects of color priming on judgments of interpersonal warmth, effects of unconscious stress on cardiovascular activity, and unconscious emotion regulation. E-mail: sa.djordj@gmail.com

Michèle D. Birtel

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Michèle Denise Birtel is an Associate Professor of Social Clinical Psychology at the University of Greenwich (UK). Her research seeks to understand and improve societal responses to diversity related to global challenges and their impact on health and wellbeing. Examples include mitigating conflict, addressing social stigma, reducing inequality, and promoting health, in the contexts of migration, infectious diseases, political polarization, women's health and climate change. Her research webpage can be found here.

   

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).

Angelica Manzi

Angelica Manzi is a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Pavia. Her research interests focus on the effects of women objectification and gender socialization processes in socio-cognitive abilities in childhood and adolescence. 

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.