Nadine Vietmeier
Nadine Vietmeier
Nadine Vietmeier holds master’s degrees in Psychology (M.Sc.) and Intelligence and Movement (M.Sc.) from Bielefeld University. She is a licensed psychotherapist for children, adolescents, and adults and earned her Ph.D. at Humboldt University of Berlin, where she conducted research on social anxiety disorders in childhood.
Joe Moran
Joe Moran
Joe Moran is a cognitive scientist with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research and Development Lab, where he investigates the role of social pressures and social influence on cognitive processes such as decision making. Before this position, Joe did postdoctoral work first at MIT and then at Harvard, where he used fMRI to investigate social cognition and mentalizing in individuals with autism, typically developing younger adults, and older adults. Joe maintains an appointment at Harvard, where he collaborates with members of its Department of Psychology.
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets is an associate professor at Maastricht University. His primary research interest concerns the “Neurobiology of Learning and Memory”, with a specific emphasis on the modulating role of stress and stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) on memory performance. Currently, he is running several research projects that aim to better understand why some people, when stressed, revert to their old, maladaptive habits (e.g., bingeing, smoking, drinking) by unravelling the underlying brain mechanisms.
Nadira Faber
Nadira Faber
Dr. Nadira Faber is an experimental social psychologist and a Junior Principal Investigator at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. She also is a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Nadira does interdisciplinary research with colleagues from psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience focussing on cooperative behaviour, specifically on dynamics within groups and on helping behaviour.
Marko Jelícic
Marko Jelícic
Marko Jelícic is professor of neuropsychology and law at Maastricht University. Apart from cognitive biases, his main research interests are in the field of crime-related amnesia, feigning of cognitive and psychiatric disorders, and memory distortions. He regularly acts as an expert witness in Dutch court cases that require expert opinions on neuropsychological issues, memory distortions, confessions, and the validity of symptoms reported by defendants.
Julia C. Becker
Julia C. Becker
Julia C. Becker obtained her PhD from Philipps University, Marburg in Germany and has been Professor of Social Psychology at Osnabrueck University since 2013. Her main research interests focus on ways to explain why disadvantaged group members tolerate societal systems that produce social and economic inequality and how legitimizing ideologies help to maintain unequal status relations. Building on this, she is interested in people’s motivation to engage in activism for social change.
Jana Dreston
Jana Dreston
Jana Dreston is Editor-in-Chief of the English version of In-Mind magazine. She studied at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Cologne. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research focuses on psychological processes of education in social media and political communication. She is also interested in memory, learning, science communication and media psychology. Find her here.
jana.dreston@uni-due.de
Jonathan Jong
Jonathan Jong
Jonathan Jong is an experimental psychologist at the Centre of Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford. His main research interests are in the effects of ritual participation on social behavior, the measurement of religious belief, the causal factors involved in religious belief, and the implications of naturalistic explanations of religion for religious belief.
Carla Alfonso
Carla Alfonso
Laboratory of Sport Psychology, Department of Basic Psychology, Universitat Autónoma de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts is trained as an experimental social psychologist at Nijmegen University where he worked on habit and decision making, and received his PhD in 1996. Since 2004 he is a Full Professor in Social Psychology at Utrecht University. His work deals with several topics related to the role of goals in automatic processes of social cognition and behavior and is published in fundamental and applied journals.