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Julia Asbrand

Prof. Dr. Julia Asbrand is Professor of Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence at the University of Jena and a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist. Her research focuses on anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence as well as effects of societal crises on children and adolescents.

Beate Seibt

Beate Seibt is an assistant professor at the University of Oslo. Her research interests are: mimicry of emotional expressions, relational models of interpersonal relations, social cognition, intergroup relations, approach and avoidance motivations.

Nico W. Van Yperen

Nico W. Van Yperen is professor of Sport and Performance Psychology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His main interests are the mental aspects of sport and performance, and achievement motivation in particular. He is also founder, developer, and teaching director of the postgraduate program ‘Sport and Performance Psychology’ (see www.ispp.nl), and an active blogger on social media and www.sportscience.blog.

Susan Fiske

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor in psychology at Princeton University. She was previously Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an assistant through associate professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Her research has sparked opportunities for real-world impact. Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power.

Teresa Greither

Teresa Greither, a research associate and PhD student at Ulm University Hospital’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, specialises in the domain of interpersonal violence in sport. She focuses on the prevalence and context of abusive experiences in sports as well as the development of preventative safeguarding measures. As a freelance psychologist and consultant, she applies her expertise to contribute meaningfully to this critical area of study.

Irena Domachowska

Irena Domachowska received her M.A. in psychology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. She has completed the Research Masters in Social Psychology at the VU University, The Netherlands. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the TU Dresden, Germany. E-mail: i.domachowska@in-mind.org

Markus Janczyk

Markus Janczyk is a full Professor for Psychological Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bremen. He studied psychology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Nevada at Reno (USA). His research interests include action control, multitasking, language and mathematical methods and models in psychology.

Dr. A. Marthe Möller

Dr. A. Marthe Möller is an assistant professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. Marthe studies how shared experiences arise when people use social media and how this fosters connectedness. Her work comprises two approaches: Through experiments, Marthe investigates how social media users affect each other and using computational methods, she analyzes (changes in) the content of social media messages.

Emily Balcetis

Emily Balcetis is an assistant professor of social psychology at New York University. Her research interests fall at the intersection of social and cognitive psychology. Specifically, she investigates what and how motivations influence visual perception, social judgment, and decision-making. She earned her PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University where she held a Sage Fellowship and earned the Society of Experimental Social Psychology 2006 Dissertation Award for her research on motivated visual perception.