Michaela Forrai
Michaela Forrai
Michaela Forrai is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna and a member of the Vienna Media Change and Innovation Lab (VMCI). In her dissertation, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Desirée Schmuck, she focuses on young people’s interactions with communicative artificial intelligence agents (e.g., ChatGPT and Replika) and how this relates to their well-being. Further research interests generally concern the areas of media change and media innovation, media psychology, and health communication, such as (social) media use and well-being/mental health/suicide prevention.
Scott Sleek
Scott Sleek
Scott Sleek is the news director for the Association for Psychological Science, where he is in charge of promoting the public understanding of psychological research. He runs a variety of public education campaigns on scientific topics such as, the teen brain, learning styles, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Nina Wieking
Nina Wieking
Nina Wieking studied political science and law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, before being accepted for a master's program in journalism at the LMU. During this time, she researched the topic of "manifestation".
Sarah Vahed
Sarah Vahed
Sarah Vahed has an interdisciplinary background, having studied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Law. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Decision Neuroscience at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands. Her research examines how people form judgements and make decisions related to pressing societal and moral issues, such as economic inequality, social injustice, and online harm.
Dr. Avelina Lovis Schmidt
Dr. Avelina Lovis Schmidt
Dr. Avelina Lovis-Schmidt works as a research associate at the Chair of Educational and Developmental Psychology at TU Chemnitz. Her research focuses on emotional competencies in their diversity and how to promote them across different groups of people. She offers various projects to support early-career researchers at the Institute of Psychology, from which this article originated.
Wilhelm Hofmann
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.
Sanne Houben
Sanne Houben
Sanne Houben is an assistant professor at Maastricht University. She is specialized in the memory effects of EMDR and Imagery Rescripting, and therapeutic side effects.
Peter Hegarty
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).
Bruna Calado
Bruna Calado
Bruna Calado is a PhD Candidate from the House of Legal Psychology, affiliated to Maastricht University and the University of Gothenburg. Her PhD research focuses on the reliability of eyewitness memory when witnesses have repeatedly experienced an event. She has attended the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba in Brazil where she graduated as a psychologist.