Magazine staff

Philip S. Lu

Philip S. Lu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. He specializes in social network analysis.

Kate Johnson

Kate Johnson is a social psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Computational Social Sciences Lab and The Values, Morality and Ideology Lab. Her research focuses primarily on how people’s moral values are influenced by their social environments, and how values interact with group membership to shape people’s self-concepts and world-views. 

Janina Steinmetz

Janina Steinmetz is an Assistant Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at Utrecht University. She received her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2014, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business until 2016, when she moved to Utrecht. Janina’s work deals with people’s motivation and self-control in a social context.   

Robert Horselenberg

Robert Horselenberg is assistant professor in legal psychology at the law faculty of Maastricht University. His research focuses on evidence gathering – investigative interviewing, perception of evidence, cold case investigations etc. He also is appointed as expert witness on a regular basis.

Alan Jern

Alan Jern is a cognitive scientist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He primarily studies social cognition. He writes about psychology and TV at OverthinkingTV.com.  

Mandy Tjew A Sin

Mandy Tjew A Sin obtained her Research Master’s degree in Social and Organisational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She was recently awarded a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to examine the effects of belonging on the academic performance of minority students. She also conducts research on the effects of (simulated) touch on social cognition.

Mario Herberz

Mario Herberz studied psychology with a focus on cognitive, social and decision psychology at the University of Heidelberg. He then completed his doctorate at the University of Geneva at the interface of environmental, consumer and decision psychology. He is particularly interested in systematic biases in decision-making behavior, heuristic decision rules, choice architecture and improving policy design in the environmental, health and social domain with a behavioral sciences approach.

Katie DiBona

Katie DiBona's research interests include gender, culture, emotions, and more specifically, how one’s culture and gender affect one’s emotional experiences. While at Wesleyan, she worked on projects relating to sexism gender, and trans identities.

Maximilian Schmaußer

University Hospital Cologne, Germany

Nick Haslam

Nick Haslam is a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and taught in the USA before returning to Australia. His research interests include dehumanization, group perception, and psychiatric classification.