Matteo Masi
Matteo Masi
Matteo Masi received his Ph.D. from the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Surrey, and he is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His interests are in social psychology, in particular social cognition and impression formation, that is how we represent others in our minds and how we judge them by combining available information.
Laysee Ong
Laysee Ong
Lay See Ong is a postgraduate student at the Singapore Management University. Supervised by Angela Leung, her research interests varies (too broadly for her own good!) from creativity to mobility and self-regulation. One of her recent research projects investigated the beliefs about hierarchy among high and low relational mobility individuals. To know more her research exploits, you can visit her website. As a side project, she is also exploring and advocating the use of the virtual world, Second Life, for psychological research. While she’s not working, she enjoys good music, reading, and her pole dancing classes. E-mail: l.ong@in-mind.org
Dr. Gizem Samdan
Dr. Gizem Samdan
Dr. Gizem Samdan is a Research Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany, in the Department of Developmental Psychology. She is currently working on a longitudinal study, where she is contributing to the understanding of early childhood development and how it shapes later life, with a focus on the role of socio-ecological factors.
Ryan Elder
Ryan Elder
Ryan S. Elder is an assistant professor of Marketing at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Michigan. His research explores the interplay between sensory perception and cognition within an advertising context, with a particular focus on imagery.
Frank Bosco
Frank Bosco
Dr. Frank Bosco is a member of the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research spans the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational research methods. Dr. Bosco is especially interested in employee staffing (e.g., employee selection), cognitive ability testing, meta-analysis, big data, open science, and approaches for summarizing entire scientific literatures. His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Bosco is co-Founder of metaBUS.org, a winner of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities's Digging into Data Challenge and currently funded by the National Science Foundation, SHRM Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership. When launched, the project will enable researchers and practitioners to make sense of more than 1,000,000 research findings by navigating an easy-to-understand "map" of constructs that conducts instant meta-analyses on virtually any topic in the scientific space.
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.
Michelle Lemay
Michelle Lemay
Michelle Lemay has her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno and is currently working on her PhD at Idaho State University. Her research focuses on emotional biases in relation to sleep and affect. She has also begun working with adolescents and internalizing disorders. E-mail: mlemay91@gmail.com
Christopher Perez
Christopher Perez
Christopher M. Perez is a fifth-year doctoral candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he has been working as a member of the Positive Parenting Research Team (PPRT) and graduate course instructor. Clinically, he serves as a psychology intern within Veterans Affairs (VA). In August 2019, he will earn his Doctorate of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology and has made plans to move forward in a postdoctoral fellowship, with an emphasis in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and career goal of continuing to provide psychology services within the VA.
Scott Stroud
Scott Stroud
Scott Stroud received his B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno. His research interest broadly include intergroup interactions, ownership of ideas, and political ideology. His academic aim is to earn a Ph.D.in Social Psychology.
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher
Fabian Hutmacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His academic background is in Psychology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) as well as Philosophy and German Literature (B.A.). In his research, he focusses on individual and collective processes of remembering and identity construction (in the digital age) as well as motivated reasoning and motivated science reception. He also holds a strong interest in the theory and history of psychology.