Magazine staff

Aaron Moss

Aaron is a second year graduate student at Tulane University. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2011. His research investigates issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Specifically, he is interested in how people maintain an unprejudiced view of themselves yet hold and express bias against others. He is also interested in how members of majority and minority groups perceive (or fail to perceive) discrimination and the motivations that influence their perceptions.

Tanja Oschatz

Tanja Oschatz studied psychology in Hamburg and Osnabrück and has been pursuing her PhD in social psychology and sexual science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2022. Her research focuses on women’s sexuality and gender differences in sexual pleasure.

Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin, Ph.D. (Social and Personality Psychology), is the Director for Faculty Development & Leadership at Wright State University and former Program Director for the LEADER Consortium, a multi-institutional NSF ADVANCE program supporting gender equity in STEM in the greater Dayton, OH region. Her research interests include: social power, impression formation, implicit social cognition, prejudice confrontation and reducing intergroup bias.

Jan Alexander Häusser

Jan Häusser received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2010. Jan currently holds a professorship for social psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. His research interests comprise social identity and stress, occupational health psychology and social decision making, with a focus on the effects of psycho-physiological impairments (e.g., stress, sleep deprivation) on social decision making. Jan can be contacted via email at jan.a.haeusser@psychol.uni-giessen.de.

Anneloes Kip

Anneloes Kip is a Social- and Health research master student at Utrecht University (UU). She works as a research assistant for dr. C. Evers with the Self-regulation Lab (UU). Her topics of interest include emotion regulation, emotion based eating, self-licensing and self-agency.

Marianne L. Wade

Marianne Wade is Reader in Criminal Justice at the Birmingham Law School and Director (Law) of the Centre for Crime Justice and Policing at the University of Birmingham. Her work focuses on comparative study of criminal justice systems (with a focus on prosecution), as well as relevant EU developments, trafficking human beings and terrorism.

Malachi Willis

Malachi Willis is a Research Associate in the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow. He primarily researches the nuances of sexual consent, which he conceptualizes as a person's willingness to engage in a particular sexual behavior with a particular person within a particular context. Malachi uses his diverse training (MA, Forensic Psychology; MA, Experimental Psychology; MS, Statistics and Analytics; PhD, Community Health Promotion) to conduct studies across several methodologies and guide his decisions as an editorial board member of sex research journals.

Cicero Roberto Pereira

Cicero Roberto Pereira obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from the ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon in 2007. He carried out his post-doctoral studies at the institution where he is currently based. His research interests focus on the analysis of legitimising processes of discrimination against minority groups in contexts where prejudice is anti-normative.

Jakob Kaiser

After studying Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Jakob graduated from the University of Sussex with a PhD in Psychology. His research focuses on how humans can exercise self-control over their behavior, for example to avoid distractions or suppress unhealthy impulses. Additionally, Jakob explores how new technologies, like AI and robotics, can either support or undermine our self-control and the human need for autonomy and self-determination. You can contact him on Bluesky: @jakobkaiser.bsky.social.

Petra Markel