Magazine staff

Johanna Kranz

Dr. Johanna Kranz is a post-doc for climate communication and climate education at the Rhineland-Palatinate Competence Center for Climate Change Impacts. She studied biology, German and German as a foreign language at the University of Trier and completed her doctorate in biology didactics at the University of Vienna. As a lecturer, her educational programs in the field of environment and climate have received awards, including the “Education for Sustainable Development Award” from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Change and Climate Policy. Her research focuses on action-oriented climate communication, climate education and social change.

Chelsea Ellithorpe

Chelsea Ellithorpe is an Assessment Analyst II at Auburn University. She earned her BA degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology from Boston University in 2011 and her MS degree in Social-Experimental Psychology from Mississippi State University in 2013. Her primary research interests are in social neuroscience and interpersonal relationships, including social networks research and research on love and attraction.

Roland Imhoff

Prof. Roland Imhoff is chair for social and legal psychology at the University of Mainz, Germany. His research interests cover conspiracy mentality, categorization and stereotyping, representations of history, cognitive biases, and social comparisons. @rolandimhoff.bsky.social

Donald Lucas

Dr. Lucas is the chair of the psychology department at Northwest Vista College (NVC)-a community college with more than 17,000 students in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the department in 1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute in San Francisco, and took his Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialty in Neuroscience and Behavior from Northern Illinois University.

He publishes and presents on a variety of topics about human behavior, including, psychophysics, family & domestic violence, teaching & learning, and life satisfaction.  He is the author of the book, Being: Your Happiness, Pleasure, and Contentment (Hayden-McNeil).  He has been teaching for 25 years; courses in Human Sexuality, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Positive Psychology.

He was featured in the San Antonio Express-News newspaper and magazine SCENE in SA Monthly as one of San Antonio's top professors. His teaching has earned him a number of awards, including the NVC Excellence in Teaching Award, The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Doctoral Achievement Award, and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award. He is a Minnie Stevens Piper award winner-the oldest and most prestigious teaching award for higher education in the state of Texas.

He and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Sember and Rayen, and two purebred mutts, Macy and Barney.

Verena Steiner-Hofbauer

Verena Hofbauer is a post-doctoral researcher at and head of the Research Centre Transitional Psychiatry of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Science, which is concerned with topics regarding the mental health and mental illness of transition-age youth. She is an academic psychologist with a special interest in media psychology in clinical and non-clinical settings.

Jenny C. Su

Jenny Su is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. She received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Minnesota and served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University from 2011 to 2014. Her research focuses on culture, self-regulation, and well-being.    

Kate Schramm

Kate Schramm is a master’s student in psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She is interested in the way digital media shape psychological processes such as self-perception and self-portrayal and their relation with psychological well-being. In addition to her studies, she works in human resources development and as a workshop trainer, focusing on topics such as communication, leadership, and stress management. 

Mikaela Magnusson

Mikaela Magnusson is a Ph.D. student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on forensic child interviewing techniques with preschool-aged children.

Arash Emamzadeh

Chris Reinders Folmer

Chris Reinders Folmer is a researcher at the program Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort at Erasmus School of Law (ESL), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also affiliated with Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). His research is situated at the intersection of psychology, law, economics, and sociology. It gathers empirical evidence to test the validity of the assumptions that underlie law and policy. His major research themes include the effect of apology in legal disputes and the question how people weigh their self-interest against the interest of others in various social situations. More generally, his research focuses on trust, cooperation, ethics, reputation, law, and social policy.