Magazine staff

Britta Krüger

Britta Krüger is a senior lecturer in the Human Movement Science and Sports Psychology Department at Justus Liebig University Giessen where she also completed her doctorate and postdoctoral habilitation in psychology. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Klaus Tschira Klar Text Prize for Science Communication. Her research focuses on aspects of action simulation. She is particularly interested in the neural processes underlying imagining and perceiving human movements.

Selin Kesebir

Gustaf Glavå

Gustaf Glavå researches and teaches about brain function. More specifically about how the brain's function and cognition change after injuries and diseases. He also researches different aspects of the psychology of fatherhood with a focus on fathers themselves.

Shana Cole

Shana Cole is is a social psychology PhD candidate at New York University. Her research broadly explores the ways in which visual perception informs, guides, and serves successful self-regulation. She studies this within a wide variety of domains, including health, culture, relationships, politics, and emotion regulation. Her dissertation work focuses on the role of visual perception in self-control conflicts, detailing visual biases that emerge as people struggle to remain committed to long-term goals in the face of temptation.    

Gudrun Dobslaw

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Dobslaw is a Professor for Counseling and Psychosocial Intervention at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. As a practitioner, she has extensive experience working with clients, especially those who are at risk of participation restrictions and social stigmatization. One of her research interests relates to how social roles are constituted and reproduced in the interaction between groups of actors in social work from an ethnomethodological perspective.

Winnifred Louis

Winnifred R. Louis (PhD McGill, 2001) is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Her research interests focus on the influence of identity and norms on social decision-making. She has studied this broad topic in contexts from politics and community activism to health and environmental choices. She is Associate Editor of Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology, and has served or is serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, The Australian Journal of Psychology, the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, the British Journal of Social Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. She is a member of numerous professional associations including the the Centre for Research in Social Psychology, at the University of Queensland; the Association for Psychological Science; the Australian Psychological Society; the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; the International Association of Conflict Management, and the Society for Australasian Social Psychology. She has served on the Australian Psychological Society's Public Interest Advisory Group and she is the national convenor of the Australian group Psychologists for Peace, http://groups.psychology.org.au/pfp/ .

Gosia Mikołajczak

Gosia Mikołajczak has been recently awarded PhD from the University of Warsaw. Her doctoral thesis focuses on gender discrimination and cultural forces that propagate it (https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/1367). In other lines of research she examines group processes related to discrimination, prejudice, identity formation, and collective action. E-mail: mmikolajczak@psych.uw.edu.pl
www: http://cbu.psychologia.pl/pl/zespol/mikolajczak
Twitter: @manatee_e

Sarah Mayr

Sarah Mayr studied psychology at LMU Munich and Humboldt University Berlin. She’s interested in the interplay of humans and technology and studied in her bachelor thesis how video game elements increase motivation.

Paul Conway

I am an Assistant Professor at Florida State University studying Moral Psychology. My work focuses on the psychology involved in resolving complex moral dilemmas and how people form judgments of their own and others’ moral character. Recognition of my work includes the 2014 Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award.

Yael Ecker

Yael Ecker is a researcher in the Social Cognition Centre at the university of Cologne, Germany. She has completed her M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and her PhD at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her current work focuses on understanding the processes that serve and promote goal-directed maintenance.