Scott Stroud
Scott Stroud
Scott Stroud received his B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno. His research interest broadly include intergroup interactions, ownership of ideas, and political ideology. His academic aim is to earn a Ph.D.in Social Psychology.
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His academic background is in Psychology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) as well as Philosophy and German Literature (B.A.). In his research, he focusses on individual and collective processes of remembering and identity construction (in the digital age) as well as motivated reasoning and motivated science reception. He also holds a strong interest in the theory and history of psychology.
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Athens and received her MSc. in Psychology and Law from Maastricht University. Currently she is working towards a Ph.D. at Maastricht University. Specifically, she examines the effect of choice blindness in relation to eyewitness decision making processes. Her main research interests are eyewitness memory, eyewitness identification, and decision making.
Edda van Meurs
Edda van Meurs
Edda van Meurs is a doctoral student at the Department of Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Muenster. Her research focuses on social influence in sports, looking at one-on-one situations as well as large crowds at sports events. She teaches about spectators as well as statistical methods in sport and exercise sciences.
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982 and is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Psychology Program at the University of Arizona. He is co-creator of terror management theory, and his research is focused primarily on utilizing an existential perspective and experimental methods to understand self-esteem, prejudice, aggression, and depression.
Cécile Martha
Cécile Martha
Cécile Martha is a lecturer in sports science at the Aix-Marseille University (France) for 16 years, and a sports educator specialised in climbing for 18 years. She is also a former high-level athlete in sport climbing. Within the Institute of Movement Sciences (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS), her research activities focus on psychological factors (risk perception, personality traits) associated with risk-taking in the areas of sports practice (especially sport climbing and base-jumping) and driving.
Janina Marguc
Janina Marguc
Janina Marguc originally comes from Slovenia. She received her undergraduate degree at International University of Bremen. After completing her Master’s thesis at Columbia University, Ms. Marguc received her Master of Science in Social Psychology at the Free University, Amsterdam. Her research interests focus on creativity, cooperation, automaticity, emotions, self-regulation, and social cognition. She is now working on a Ph. D. studentship with Dr. Jens Förster on motivational processes at the University of Amsterdam.
Astrid Carrapatoso
Astrid Carrapatoso
Dr. Astrid Carrapatoso is Professor of Political Science and its Didactics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg - University of Education. She is Vice Director of the Research Center for Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ReCCE) since 2022. Previously, she worked as an academic advisor at the Seminar for Scientific Policy at the University of Freiburg and was a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland and the Australian National University. She completed her teacher training as a social studies and English teacher at a Freiburg grammar school. Her current research focuses on education for sustainable development, climate education and democracy education.
Robert Thomson
Robert Thomson
After completing an MA in media and communications, Robert Thomson is now a PhD student at the Department of Behavioral Science at Hokkaido University, in northern Japan. His research interests lie at the intersection of cross-cultural psychology and cyber-behavior. Specifically, he conducts multi-country studies exploring predictors of self-expression on social network sites. His aim is to uncover culture-specific challenges and opportunities relating to social capital and online connectivity between people. Connect with Robert at www.robthomo.com.
Justin J. Lehmiller
Justin J. Lehmiller
Justin J. Lehmiller (Ph.D., Purdue University) is a sex educator and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He has published over 30 scholarly publications in the areas of relationships and sexuality. He also runs a popular blog, The Psychology of Human Sexuality (www.lehmiller.com), dedicated to presenting responsible information about sex in a way that is both educational and entertaining.