Magazine staff

Jim A. C. Everett

Jim Everett studied for his undergraduate at the University of Oxford, gaining a First Class degree in Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology. He completed his undergraduate thesis under Prof. Miles Hewstone in the field of intergroup conflict, before completing an MSc, again with Prof Hewstone. Jim is currently working towards his D.Phil at the University of Oxford, working primarily on research at the intersection of altruism and intergroup conflict.

Lea Sperlich

Lea Sperlich completed her bachelor's degree in business psychology (B.A.) at the Rheinische Fachhochschule in 2013 and then studied psychology (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) at the University of Cologne. Since 2018, she has been doing her doctorate there at the Chair of General Psychology II. The focus of her research is evaluative conditioning and its influence on behavior and differences in the perception of people. She works in the blog team at In-Mind Germany.

Bertjan Doosje

Bertjan Doosje is a Full Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He holds the FORUM-Frank Buijs Chair on Radicalization Studies. His research interests are: ethnic attitudes and perceived threat due to terrorism, emotions in intergroup contexts,
acculturation of ethnic minorities, radicalization processes, terror management theory, social identity processes.

Dana Hofmann

Theresa DiDonato

Theresa DiDonato is an assistant professor of social psychology at Loyola University Maryland. She received her doctorate degree in experimental psychology from Brown University in 2008. Her work focuses on romantic relationship, the self-concept, and person perception.

Julian Henz

Julian Henz is a research assistant at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sports Informatics of the German Sport University Cologne. He started his sports sciences studies in 2013, and took up his mathematical studies in 2015. In 2021, he graduated in both and is currently investigating fundamental aspects of route setting in indoor bouldering as part of his doctorate. In addition to his research activities, he works as a professional route setter and is the operations manager of Get High Routesetting GmbH.

Tila Pronk

Tila Pronk received both her Bachelor Degree in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Social Psychology from the Free University in Amsterdam. December 1, Ms. Pronk commenced a Ph. D. position at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she now focuses on her primary research interests: romantic relationships and friendship.

Johanna Kranz

Dr. Johanna Kranz is a post-doc for climate communication and climate education at the Rhineland-Palatinate Competence Center for Climate Change Impacts. She studied biology, German and German as a foreign language at the University of Trier and completed her doctorate in biology didactics at the University of Vienna. As a lecturer, her educational programs in the field of environment and climate have received awards, including the “Education for Sustainable Development Award” from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Change and Climate Policy. Her research focuses on action-oriented climate communication, climate education and social change.

Angela Celebre

Angela Celebre is in her final year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. She is working towards her Honours Bachelor of Science, with a double major in Psychology and Human Biology. She has been working in a neuro-oncology lab at St. Michael's Hospital for the past two years, and has also recently started as a research assistant in a social psychology lab at the University of Toronto. She is interested in pursuing a career in medicine. 

Marcel Meuer

Dr. Marcel Meuer studied psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany), where he also earned his doctorate. His research explores beliefs in conspiracy theories and cognitive biases on Wikipedia. He currently works as a research associate in the Department of Psychological Methods and Evaluation at FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany).