Magazine staff

Camiel Beukeboom

Camiel Beukeboom is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science of the VU University Amsterdam. He conducts research within the area of language use and interpersonal communication in both face to face conversation and computer mediated interaction. Specifically, he focuses on the relation between nonverbal behavior and language use, the causes and consequences of changes in language abstraction, the use of negations, and changes in paralinguistic vocal variables. Mail: cj.beukeboom@fsw.vu.nl

Cendrine Mercier

Cendrine Mercier is an Associate Professor in Education Sciences and Training at the University of Nantes/INSPE and at the Nantes Education Research Center (CREN - UR 2661). She is a clinical psychologist, specializing in the school inclusion of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICT) in learning situations. Her work focuses on evaluating subjective well-being in school settings.

Dennis Fox

Dennis Fox is a former Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His academic essays, largely focused on the intersection of psychology, law, and justice and on mainstream psychology's role in maintaining an unjust status quo, has appeared in journals such as American Psychologist, Law and Human Behavior and Teaching of Psychology. His essays, course materials, blog, and photo galleries are available at www.dennisfox.net.

Jette Völker

Dr. Jette Völker is a postdoctoral researcher in work and organizational psychology at the University of Mannheim (Germany), from where she also received her PhD in 2023. Her research interests include sleep and recovery from work, health and well-being at work, and interpersonal relationships at work.

Joop van der Pligt

Joop van der Pligt is a full professor of Social Psychology. His research focuses on risk perception and the acceptability of risks. Both health-related risks, as well as large scale societal risks recieved considerable attention in his research. Together with Frenk van Harreveld he studied causes and consequences of attitudinal ambivalence. His research also addresses risk communication and its impact on both the acceptability of risk and behavioral change.

Brian Meier

Lieke Braadbaart

Dr. Lieke Braadbaart obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the neural correlates of complex manual and facial imitation using fMRI, and how these correlates might differ in young people with autism. Previous to this she had finished a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences at Maastricht University, focusing on Social Science, after which she completed an MSc in Social Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, whereby her research on the imitation mechanisms at work during simultaneous EEG-fMRI resulted in her first two first-author publications.

Julia Rohrer

Julia is a PhD student at the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course in Berlin, investigating the determinants of well-being across the life course. She received her Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Leipzig in 2016. She is currently an associate editor for In-Mind and manages the research participation section. You can follow her on twitter @dingding_peng.

Irena Boskovic

Irena is a Ph.D. Candidate at both Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and University of Portsmouth (UK). Her main research interest is in testing the efficiency of different methods used in the detection of people who fabricate their symptoms in order to receive benefits (i.e., malinger). Mainly, Irena is focused on investigating malingered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as well as comorbid problems such as anxiety and common physical symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue etc.).

Marlene Werner

Marlene Werner is a graduated Master’s student of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. She is a  Ph.D. at the Department of Sexology and Psychosomatic Gynaecology at the AUMC (Location Academic Medical Center), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ellen Laan and Prof. Dr. Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw. The Ph.D. focuses on the sexual health of women who have received chemo(radio)therapy due to cancer and the role of testosterone in the sexual health of (these) women. Marlene’s research interests span sexology and (psychological) research methods. She is fascinated by the question of how to best conceptualize the nature and interplay of sexual desire, sexual pleasure, and sexual function.