Magazine staff

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.

Suzanne van Gils

Suzanne van Gils completed her Bachelor in Social and Organizational Psychology at the Free University, Amsterdam. She currently is pursuing a Master of Science at the same university. While her previous research has focused on vicarious embarrassment, she currently studies relationships and emotions. Her aim within these two subfields in social psychology center around the study of mood contagion, power in relationships, and love. She is also the editor-in-chief of The Free Mind

Iniobong Essien

Iniobong Essien is a social psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the chair of Social and Organizational Psychology of Social Work at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He earned his PhD in social psychology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He worked as a research associate at the chair of Community Psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, and as a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination, and their interaction with social contexts. He also investigates the measurement of attitudes and the consequences of group-based stigmatization.

Jarret Crawford

Jarret Crawford is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. He earned his PhD in Social Psychology from Rutgers University in 2008. His primary research interests are in political psychology and intergroup relations.

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

Matt Newman

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.

Joanna Korman

Joanna Korman, Sc.M., M.Phil., is a Ph.D.  candidate at Brown University in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences. Her research explores how typically developing individuals and people on the autism spectrum solve the most challenging puzzles of social life.  As a part of Brown’s New Scientist and undergraduate advising initiatives, she has mentored first-generation and minority undergraduate women aspiring to careers in the sciences.   

Chris Martin

Chris Martin is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Emory University. He earned an MA in psychology from the College of William and Mary in 2012. His research interests include personality change, political attitudes, problematic affluence, and happiness.

Ann-Christin Posten

Ann-Christin Posten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne. Upon receiving her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2012, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Ann-Christin’s research focuses on distrust and cognitive information processing.