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Namkje Koudenburg

Namkje Koudenburg received both her Bachelor and Master’s degree in Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. At the same university, she is currently working toward her Ph.D. together with Dr. Tom Postmes and Dr. Ernestine Gordijn. Her research mainly concerns group dynamics. Specifically, in her Ph.D. project she examines the effects of conversational flow and silences on social needs and perceptions of consensus. In a different line of research she investigates voters’ perceptions on non-voting.

Sandrine Isoard-Gautheur

Sandrine Isoard-Gautheur is a Maîtresse de Conférences at the Université Grenoble Alpes, affiliated with the Sport and Social Environment Laboratory (EA3742). Her research in social psychology focuses on the phenomenon of athlete burnout in high-level athletes or those ascending to high levels, aiming to identify developmental, environmental, motivational, and emotional factors that influence the emergence of this syndrome. Twitter/X: @IsoardGS

Brad Bushman

Brad Bushman is a professor at The Ohio State University and the Margaret Hall and Robert Randal Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication. He received his Ph. D. in social psychology from the University of Missouri. Dr. Bushman is widely known for his research on aggression and violent media.

Aïna Chalabaev

Aïna Chalabaev is Full Professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes where she leads the Sport and Social Environment Laboratory. Her research focuses on the psychosocial determinants of participation in physical activity and sports, and notably on the motivation and threat-related processes resulting from stigmatisation. Twitter/X: @achalabae

Dan Batson

Dan Batson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 1972 and is currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas. He has conducted a number of experiments on various forms of prosocial motivation, is the author of The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer (Erlbaum Associates, 1991), and the chapter in The Handbook of Social Psychology (4th ed.) on “Altruism and Prosocial Behavior” (McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Alicia Gilbert

Alicia Gilbert is a research associate and PhD candidate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her studies in Mainz and at the University of Amsterdam. The focus of her research lies in the psychology of digital media use and effects, particularly topics including self-regulation, well-being, and media entertainment. She is active on bluesky and X/Twitter.

Rene Kopietz

Roman Trötschel

Roman Trötschel is a professor of social and political psychology and the head of the Negotiation Research Group (NRG) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on cognitive processes in negotiations as well as the impact of the negotiation context (e.g., collective bargaining with group representatives) on the negotiation process and the resulting outcomes. Another key area of his research is conflict intervention, including mediation, arbitration, and conciliation.

Jesse Chandler

Dr. Jesse Chandler, received his Bachelor Degree in English from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He moved to the United States to complete a PhD at the University of Michigan and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. He now works at PRIME Research, where he provides media measurement and empirically driven corporate and product reputation consulting services.

Mira Fauth-Bühler

Mira Fauth-Bühler has served as Professor of Business Psychology and Neuroeconomics at FOM University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart since 2017. After completing her PhD in Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences at the International Max Planck Research School in Tübingen, she worked at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the University of Cambridge, and King’s College London, and held a senior position at the Central Institute of Mental Health. Mira’s research focuses on the psychological and neural mechanisms that shape decision-making, with particular emphasis on the interplay between impulsive and deliberate behavior in contexts such as financial choices, consumption, and digitally mediated environments – including social media platforms, smartphone use, and online services. Her pioneering work in addiction research has been recognized with the Wolfram-Keup Promotion Award, the DG-Suchtforschung Prize, and the FOM Research Prize. Mira is passionately committed to making scientific insights accessible through active science communication.