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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.

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.

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.

Laura Voigt

German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology, Germany

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.

Xavier Sanchez

Xavier Sanchez is Professor of Sport Psychology at Université d’Orléans, France; he has lived and worked in different countries across Europe including Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden, and France. Xavier is Doctor (PhD) in Psychological Sciences by the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium); has a post-grad Teaching and Learning Degree in Higher Education by the University of Groningen (The Netherlands); and is both Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the British Psychological Society. Xavier has always been involved with scientific governing bodies: founding member of Belgian French-speaking Society of Sport Psychology (SBFPS); first President of European Network of Young Specialists in Sport Psychology (ENYSSP); regular member, General Secretary, and Vice-President of European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC), and currently President-elect of International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and Vice-President of the French Society of Sport Psychology (SFPS). Xavier has published in a wide-range of international journals in sport psychology, sport sciences, and mainstream psychology; he holds editorial boards positions at International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, International Journal of Sport Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology (sections ‘Sport Psychology’ and 'Performance Science'). Xavier has provided applied sport psychology services at elite and international levels to different sports including gymnastics, badminton, bowling, squash, taekwondo, and cycling.