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.
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana
Anna Sagana completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Athens and received her MSc. in Psychology and Law from Maastricht University. Currently she is working towards a Ph.D. at Maastricht University. Specifically, she examines the effect of choice blindness in relation to eyewitness decision making processes. Her main research interests are eyewitness memory, eyewitness identification, and decision making.
Arthur Aron
Arthur Aron
Arthur Aron received his doctoral degree in social psychology from the University of Toronto, conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Paris and University of British Columbia, followed by several university teaching and research positions. Since 1994 he has been on the psychology faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research centers on the self-expansion model of motivation cognition in personal relationships, including the neural underpinnings and real-world applications of the model.
Stephanie Davey
Stephanie Davey
Stephanie Davey is an editor at the International version of In-Mind. She is currently a research assistant and social media manager after completing her MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Derby. Her research focuses on understanding vaccine decision-making amongst parents, with broader interests in health communication and intervention development.
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2002 from Leiden University. In his dissertation, he focused on procedural justice and group dynamics. He is currently employed as an assistant professor at VU University, Amsterdam. Mail: JW.van.Prooijen@psy.vu.nl