Magazine staff

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.

Erin Biesecker

Erin Biesecker (they/them) is a counseling psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. They previously studied psychology and English at The College of William & Mary in Virginia. They research community-based ways to support transgender rights and the impacts of discrimination. You can find updates on their research here.

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.

Jasper Froehlich

Jasper Froehlich holds a Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and Political Science with a teaching option from Freie Universität Berlin and is pursuing a Master’s in Rehabilitation Pedagogy at Humboldt University of Berlin. He contributed to the DFG-funded project “Gedankenkarussell: The Child Anxiety Project,” which investigates the causes of severe social anxiety in children and adolescents.

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/

Tabea Zorn

Dr. Tabea Zorn studied psychology (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at the University of Cologne from 2013 to 2019. She then completed her Ph.D. at the Department of General Psychology II in Cologne in March 2025. Her research focuses on valence asymmetries in person perception, the mechanisms and factors that drive interpersonal attraction, and order effects in evaluative judgments. She is currently part of the blog team at In-Mind.

Bindal Makwana

Bindal Makwana received her B.S. in Psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Her thesis examined language mediation of behavior control in relation to structural brain development. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests are in health, neuropsychology and neuroimaging.