Magazine staff

Dan Batson

Dan Batson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 1972 and is currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas. He has conducted a number of experiments on various forms of prosocial motivation, is the author of The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer (Erlbaum Associates, 1991), and the chapter in The Handbook of Social Psychology (4th ed.) on “Altruism and Prosocial Behavior” (McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Julius Klingelhoefer

Julius Klingelhoefer is a research associate and PhD candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He previously studied at the University of Würzburg and the University of Texas at Austin. He researches digital well-being, digital disconnection, and self-regulation with a focus on work and everyday situations. You can find updates on his research on bluesky and the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Rene Kopietz

Marco Schauer

Marco Schauer is a research associate and doctoral student in the Department of Social and Political Psychology, Institute of Sustainability Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg. After studying and completing research internships in Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA, he is now part of the Negotiation Research Group (NRG), focusing on the processing of uncertainties and externalities in the negotiation context. His research lies at the intersection of social-psychological negotiation research and sustainability sciences, with a particular emphasis on negotiations in sustainability contexts.

Jesse Chandler

Dr. Jesse Chandler, received his Bachelor Degree in English from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He moved to the United States to complete a PhD at the University of Michigan and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. He now works at PRIME Research, where he provides media measurement and empirically driven corporate and product reputation consulting services.

Matthew A. Sanders

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.  I recently received my PhD in social psychology from the University of Georgia under Dr. Leonard L. Martin.  I have written several articles on self-control, decision making, and personal goals.  I am presently interested in political ideology and how it can impact contentious social issues as well as people's perceptions of the world generally.

Lin Qiu

Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Assistant Professor
Division of Psychology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/linqiu/

Yaeeun Lee

Yaeeun Lee received her B.A. in Psychology at University of Massachusetts Amherst and her M.S. in Psychology at Villanova University. For her graduate thesis, she investigated the effects of looking at prototypic fitness blogs and how personality plays a role in moderating affect and self-esteem post-exposure. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests includes eating disorders, health behaviors, and behavioral economics of obesity.

Chris Millar

Chris Millar studied psychology at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and since graduating has worked in community, inpatient and forensic services across the United Kingdom. He is currently based in Buckinghamshire (England) working as a Clinical Research Assistant for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and has particular interests in service user involvement, the benefits of physical activity and mental health within prison populations. He is blissfully social media free, to contact please email: chrisjsmillar@hotmail.com

Rudolf Stark

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark studied psychology at the JLU Giessen, were he earned his Ph.D. and habilitation. Since 2007, he is the head of the cognitive behavior outpatient clinic with a postgraduate training program. From 2012 he holds the Professorship for Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience and is also executive director of the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging at the JLU. His research focus is on conditioning processes, interaction of emotions and attention, as well as anxiety, addiction, and affective disorders.