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Aaron Moss

Aaron is a second year graduate student at Tulane University. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2011. His research investigates issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Specifically, he is interested in how people maintain an unprejudiced view of themselves yet hold and express bias against others. He is also interested in how members of majority and minority groups perceive (or fail to perceive) discrimination and the motivations that influence their perceptions.

Gloria Mittmann

Gloria Mittmann is a post-doctoral researcher at 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. Her work focuses on the development and evaluation of serious games for children and adolescents that should improve mental health and reduce stigma of mental illnesses.

Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin, Ph.D. (Social and Personality Psychology), is the Director for Faculty Development & Leadership at Wright State University and former Program Director for the LEADER Consortium, a multi-institutional NSF ADVANCE program supporting gender equity in STEM in the greater Dayton, OH region. Her research interests include: social power, impression formation, implicit social cognition, prejudice confrontation and reducing intergroup bias.

Jakob Kasper

  Jakob Kasper is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks Programme (IP-PAD, No. 101072992) and former graduate intern at Public First. He studies affective polarization - how feelings about one’s own group versus other groups develop and change - especially in multi-party systems and among adolescents.

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.

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.

Peter J. Van Koppen

Peter J. Van Koppen is a psychologist and professor of legal psychology at VU University Amsterdam and Maastricht University. His main research interest is the structure of evidence in criminal cases.

Jessica Maxwell

Jessica Maxwell is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she co-leads the REACH (Researching Emotions, Attachment, Close Relationships & Health) Lab. Her research examines how key principles of social cognition inform relational and sexual well-being, and how interdependent relationship processes uniquely inform theoretical perspectives on social cognition. In particular, she assesses how individual differences in expectations and perceptions influence sexual and relationship well-being, examining factors such as how individuals expect they can best maintain sexual satisfaction, what they expect from casual sex encounters, and how accurate they are in detecting their partners’ feelings and sexual preferences.

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.

Christoph Bamberg

Christoph Bamberg (Twitter: @ChrisBrainberg) is a doctoral student at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. He previously studied Philosophy and Economics (B.A.) at the University of Bayreuth and Cognitive Science (M. Sc.) at the Ruhr University Bochum. In his doctoral thesis, he is investigating the effects of intermittent fasting on cognitive performance and mood.