Magazine staff

Robin Edelstein

Robin Edelstein is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her work is devoted to understanding individual differences in emotional experience, regulation, and reactivity. She is particularly interested in how emotional processes unfold in an interpersonal context and the implications of these processes for close relationships.  

Mirjam Braßler

Mirjam Braßler’s research and teaching are as interdisciplinary as she is: not only is she a psychologist specializing in work and organizational psychology and educational psychology, she is also an economist, an educational scientist, a trained TV journalist, and trainer in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. Having completed her thesis on interdisciplinary learning at the University of Hamburg in 2019, her research now focuses on teamwork, leadership, and education for sustainable development. Since autumn 2024, she has held the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology at Kiel University.  

Wilhelm Hofmann

Wilhelm Hofmann is Professor of Economic and Social Cognition at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests include social cognition, self-control, and health behavior decision-making. He can be contacted at wilhelm.hofmann@uni-koeln.de. 

Peter Hegarty

Peter Hegarty is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men (Chicago, 2013) and From homophobia to LGBT: A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology (Routledge, 2017).

Timothy J. Luke

Lea Hartwich

Lea Hartwich studied psychology at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick in the UK and is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Psychology at Osnabrueck University, Germany. Her research interests revolve around social inequality, how it is maintained and justified and how it relates to intergroup relations and prejudice. She is also interested in the relationships between political orientation, values, and different types of subtle and open prejudice, particularly concerning class and gender.

Pascal Burgmer

Dr. Pascal Burgmer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Southampton, School of Psychology, United Kingdom. His research is devoted to the question of how people think about their own and others' mental states and what consequences this has. His focus is on social cognition, "Theory of Mind", moral psychology, and experimental philosophy (especially mind-body dualism).

Luca Andrighetto

Dr. Luca Andrighetto received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Padova in 2008. He is now a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In his post-doc project he is examining the psychological inhibitors of intergroup dehumanization, especially within conflicting contexts. Currently, he is also focusing on how perception of being discriminated affect people’s interactions with out-group members. Luca is the other editor-in-chief of In-Mind Italy, which will soon be launched!

Stefan Ackermann

German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology, Germany

Wolfgang Stroebe

Professor Wolfgang Stroebe holds appointments both at Utrecht Unviersity and the University of Groningen. His primary interests are: applied social psychology, attitudes and beliefs, group processes, health psychology, persuasion, social influence.