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Fabio Richlan

Dr. Fabio Richlan is a certified sport psychologist, research scientist, and lecturer at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Austria. He is the co-leader of the research cluster “Mental and Physical Fitness”, where he investigates topics at the intersection between neuroscience and sport, exercise, and performance psychology. He is coaching Austrian and international top-level athletes and working with the most important sports organizations.
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Arno van Voorst

Arno van Voorst, chief bibliography and the primary author of this article, completed both his Bachelor and Master Degrees at the Free University, Amsterdam. His research focuses on emotions, emotion regulation, leadership and power, social relationships with pets, and general motivation science. Indeed, going from his research interests, it should not come as a surprise that he has picked up a keen interest in evolutionary perspectives.

Magdalena Wischnewski

From 2012 to 2018, Dr. Magdalena Wischnewski studied Psychology at the University of Freiburg. In October 2019, she completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. During her PhD, she investigated the cognitive and affective mechanisms involved in motivated reasoning, particularly in the context of misinformation. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Center for Trustworthy Data Science and Security. Her current research, situated within the broader field of trust in artificial intelligence, focuses on understanding how and under what circumstances users place trust in AI systems.

Scott Sleek

Scott Sleek is the news director for the Association for Psychological Science, where he is in charge of promoting the public understanding of psychological research.  He runs a variety of public education campaigns on scientific topics such as, the teen brain, learning styles, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Joanna Schug

Joanna Schug is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology department at the College of William and Mary. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. She conducts research in the area of cross-cultural psychology, focusing on how people adapt their behavior to different types of cultural environments.  

Jacob Appleby

Jacob Appleby is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Iowa. His research interests lie mainly in political psychology, particularly the study of partisan and ideological stereotypes and the influence of racial attitudes.

Andrew Archer

Andrew Archer, LICSW received his Master of Social Work from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the owner of Minnesota Mental Health Services. Andrew is a psychotherapist, student of Zen Buddhism, national speaker and author of Pleading Insanity. His interests include the historical enmeshment of American capitalism and the medical model of mental health treatment.

Enide Maegherman

Enide Maegherman is a PhD candidate with the House of Legal Psychology, affiliated with Maastricht University and the University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on reasoning with evidence and legal decision-making.

Paul Riesthuis

Paul Riesthuis obtained in 2016 his bachelor degree in Psychology with a minor in philosophy from Grand View University. Afterwards, he acquired his masters in Brain and Cognition from Pompeu Fabra University. During his studies he conducted research in the field of false memory, comparative cognition, and language acquisition. Currently, his research focus shifted towards the effects of lying on memory which is the topic of his PhD at KU Leuven.