Helen Boucher
Helen Boucher
Helen Boucher received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently an Associate Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Broadly, her research interests concern social influences on the self. Specific projects include how self-knowledge, self-evaluation, and self-regulation are impacted by culture, important relationship partners, and threats to meaning systems such as uncertainty and mortality salience. E-mail: h.boucher@in-mind.org
Wilco van Dijk
Wilco van Dijk
Wilco van Dijk is an associate professor of social psychology at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Wilco is an expert on the psychology of emotions. He has written about the interesting complexities of several emotions such as schadenfreude, disappointment, regret, predicting your own future emotions, and collective pride and guilt.
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Mannheim, Germany (1980) and was previously affiliated with the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1981-1992), ZUMA, a social science research center in Mannheim, Germany (1987-1992), and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1993-2013). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina. His research focuses on the situated, embodied, and experiential nature of human judgment and its implications for social science research.
Emir Efendic
Emir Efendic
Emir received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bordeaux in 2017. His work is mainly in the field of judgment and decision making with a special focus on affective influences on decisions, the deliberative vs. automatic/intuitive processes behind decision making. He is currently a Post-doc at the Technology University of Eindhoven where he works on understanding when and why people fail to rely on decision support systems and algorithms. For more details on Emir’s work you can check out his website: emirefendic.com.
Christopher M. Federico
Christopher M. Federico
Christopher M. Federico is Professor of Psychology and Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include ideology and belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 ISPP Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievements, the 2007 ISPP Roberta Sigel Junior Scholar Paper Award, and the International Society for Justice Research’s 2009 Morton Deutsch Award. His research has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, and elsewhere.
Hillary McBride
Hillary McBride
Hillary L. McBride, MA, RCC, is a PhD candidate in counselling psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. She recently won the International Young Investigator Award for her research in Human Sexuality and is the author of Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are. You can learn more about her work at her website, or follow her on Instragm @hillaryliannamcbride and Twitter @hillarylmcbride.
Andreas Burger
Andreas Burger
Andreas Burger is an associate editor for In-Mind and a postdoctoral researcher in health psychology at the KU Leuven in Belgium. His research focuses on cognitive and affective effects of non-invasive neurostimulation in humans. Specifically, he is interested in studying whether transcutaneous stimulation of the vagus nerve can accelerate safety learning in anxious individuals. He is also very interested in sleep, bright light therapy, open science, and statistics. Andreas can be reached at andreas.burger@kuleuven.be.
Antonietta Curci
Antonietta Curci
Antonietta Curci is a full professor of General Psychology and Forensic Psychology at the Department of Education, Psychology, Communication of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy. She coordinates a post-graduate program in Forensic Psychology and she is the delegate of the University Rector for students' rights. Her research work is about autobiographical and Flashbulb memory, eyewitness testimony, executive functions in emotional regulation, psychopathy, and emotional intelligence. She is an Associate Editor of the journal "Memory" and she cooperates with research groups in US, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, and UK. She frequently participates as an expert witness in criminal and civil forensic cases concerning criminal responsibility of juvenile offenders, witness testimony of children and victims of sexual abuses, family conflicts involving maltreatments and abuses.
Yannik Escher
Yannik Escher
Yannik Escher holds a master’s degree in Psychology (M.Sc.) from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and now serves a research fellow at the Chair of Economic and Social Psychology at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. His research encompasses various social and business psychology inquiries. More specifically, his work focuses on the assessment of individual differences in negotiation performance, the influence of strategies and tactics (for example, anchoring, rationales, concession-making, pricing) in a variety of negotiation settings, or on typical response behavior in research and personnel selection. You can find Yannik on LinkedIn. E-Mail: yannik.escher@leuphana.de
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, professor of History at Carleton University, specializes in the history of Mexico. Currently she is working on a project about concepts of honour, morality and sexuality in Mexico’s “middle period” from 1750 to 1856, based on court documents.