Magazine staff

Ohad Szepsenwol

Dr. Ohad Szepsenwol is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. He studies individual differences in parenting, mating, and relationship dynamics from social, devleopmental, and evolutionary perspectives. 

Aldert Vrij

Aldert Vrij is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth (UK). His primary research interests are nonverbal and verbal cues to deception. His book Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities, published by Wiley in 2008, provides a comprehensive overview of deception and lie detection research. He advises the police about conducting interviews with suspects, and gives invited talks and workshops on lie detection to practitioners and scholars across the world, including police, homeland security, defense, judges, solicitors, social workers, fraud investigators, insurers and bankers.

Carolina Lunde

Carolina Lunde, PhD is an associate professor in psychology, and works at the department of psychology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research interests include adolescent development in relation to self- and body image, sexuality, internet, and social relations.

Olivier Dujols

Olivier Dujols is a PhD student at Université Grenoble Alpes. He is working on social thermoregulation and co-regulation in couples.

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.