Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts is trained as an experimental social psychologist at Nijmegen University where he worked on habit and decision making, and received his PhD in 1996. Since 2004 he is a Full Professor in Social Psychology at Utrecht University. His work deals with several topics related to the role of goals in automatic processes of social cognition and behavior and is published in fundamental and applied journals.
Kerstin Hoedlmoser
Kerstin Hoedlmoser
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoedlmoser is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg in Austria. Her research encompasses two areas of psychology: Biological Psychology (with a focus on sleep and cognition) and Sports Psychology (with an emphasis on sleep and recovery in elite sports).
Thomas Schubert
Thomas Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert received his Diploma and PhD in Psychology from the University of Jena in Germany. After staying as a postdoc at the International Graduate Colleage of Conflict and Cooperation in Jena and at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he obtained a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and came to the Netherlands to work at the VU University Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Thomas' primary research interests focus on the embodiment of social relations, and experiences in virtual environments. Mail:schubert@igroup.org
Yael Bar-Shachar
Yael Bar-Shachar
Yael Bar-Shachar is currently completing her Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev while finishing her internship as a clinical psychologist. Her dissertation focuses on the formation of shared reality in close relationships, exploring how individual differences in tolerating uncertainty (such as in individuals with social anxiety disorder) influence this process.
Laysee Ong
Laysee Ong
Lay See Ong is a postgraduate student at the Singapore Management University. Supervised by Angela Leung, her research interests varies (too broadly for her own good!) from creativity to mobility and self-regulation. One of her recent research projects investigated the beliefs about hierarchy among high and low relational mobility individuals. To know more her research exploits, you can visit her website. As a side project, she is also exploring and advocating the use of the virtual world, Second Life, for psychological research. While she’s not working, she enjoys good music, reading, and her pole dancing classes. E-mail: l.ong@in-mind.org
Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert studied English, History, and Education at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Maynooth University in Ireland. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology in Education at the University of Münster. Her research focuses on how children learn to read and how scientific findings on reading can be implemented into school practice.
Ryan Elder
Ryan Elder
Ryan S. Elder is an assistant professor of Marketing at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Michigan. His research explores the interplay between sensory perception and cognition within an advertising context, with a particular focus on imagery.
Larisa Buhin
Larisa Buhin
Prof. Larisa Buhin-Krenek, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin. She is a counseling psychologist by training, and specializes in multicultural competencies, identity, resilience, social justice, and inclusive higher education. During her career, Prof. Buhin-Krenek, Ph.D., has worked on several school-based prevention programs to help promote multicultural competencies, self-efficacy, and academic achievement among adolescents. She is currently lending her expertise in this area to help develop the RESPOND! Media Competence Training.
Frank Bosco
Frank Bosco
Dr. Frank Bosco is a member of the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research spans the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational research methods. Dr. Bosco is especially interested in employee staffing (e.g., employee selection), cognitive ability testing, meta-analysis, big data, open science, and approaches for summarizing entire scientific literatures. His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Bosco is co-Founder of metaBUS.org, a winner of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities's Digging into Data Challenge and currently funded by the National Science Foundation, SHRM Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership. When launched, the project will enable researchers and practitioners to make sense of more than 1,000,000 research findings by navigating an easy-to-understand "map" of constructs that conducts instant meta-analyses on virtually any topic in the scientific space.
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets is an associate professor at Maastricht University. His primary research interest concerns the “Neurobiology of Learning and Memory”, with a specific emphasis on the modulating role of stress and stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) on memory performance. Currently, he is running several research projects that aim to better understand why some people, when stressed, revert to their old, maladaptive habits (e.g., bingeing, smoking, drinking) by unravelling the underlying brain mechanisms.