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Abdolhossein Abdollahi

Abdolhossein Abdollahi is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Islamic Azad University-Zarand Branch, Iran. His main area of interest is Terror Management Theory (TMT), a social psychological theory positing that much human social behavior is driven by the need to avoid thoughts of one's death and mortality.He is also interested in such areas as false memory, judgment and decision making, evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and social embodiment.

Jerry Prosper Medernach

Born in 1985 in Luxembourg, Dr. Jerry Medernach began his sports studies in 2006 at the German Sport University Cologne. He graduated (Ph.D.) in 2015 and has over two decades of experience as a climbing coach, more than 10 years as a sports scientist, and eight years as a physical education teacher. In his primary profession, he currently works as an expert in cognition and sports psychology at the National Institute of Physical Activity and Sports in Luxembourg, where he educates coaches, athletes, and teachers. In his second life, he works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sports Informatics of the German Sports University. Given that climbing has always been a pivotal component of his life, he is currently investigating perceptual and cognitive skills of climbers. He started climbing in 2002, became a member of the German National Climbing Team NRW, and has climbed routes up to 8b+. 

Carina Giesen

Carina G. Giesen is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the HMU Health and Medical University Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. She studied psychology in Jena, Germany, and Glasgow, UK and received her PhD in Jena. Her research focuses on automatic action regulation. Stimulus-response binding and retrieval processes are therefore a core feature of her research, which she relates to learning phenomena, such as observational learning, contingency learning, and evaluative learning.

Selin Kesebir

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.

Shana Cole

Shana Cole is is a social psychology PhD candidate at New York University. Her research broadly explores the ways in which visual perception informs, guides, and serves successful self-regulation. She studies this within a wide variety of domains, including health, culture, relationships, politics, and emotion regulation. Her dissertation work focuses on the role of visual perception in self-control conflicts, detailing visual biases that emerge as people struggle to remain committed to long-term goals in the face of temptation.    

Fei Bi Chan

Fei Bi Chan (she/her) is a counseling psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Louisville. She studied psychology and dance at the University of Minnesota. Her research interest lies in the area of personal and collective healing for individuals affected by colonial and racial violence through modalities such as cultural practices, movement and art, community engagement, and activism. 

Lucius Caviola

Lucius Caviola is a Psychology MSc candidate at the University of Oxford, and his research focusses on questions at the intersection of psychology, ethics and rationality. He received his BSc in Psychology from the University of Basel, and has completed full-time research internships at Oxford University’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics.

Silas Rooß

Silas Rooß is a Master’s student in Rehabilitation Pedagogy at Humboldt University of Berlin and also worked on the DFG-funded project “Gedankenkarussell: The Child Anxiety Project,” exploring the causes of severe social anxiety in children and adolescents.

Lorraine Hope

Lorraine Hope is Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Portsmouth.  Her research interests concern the performance of human cognition in applied contexts, including memory and decision-making under challenging conditions.  In particular, her work has focused on developing theoretically-informed approaches to eliciting information in policing and intelligence  contexts.  She is currently an Associate Editor for the British Psychological Society (BPS) journal, Legal and Criminological Psychology and a Consulting Editor for the American Psychological Association (APA) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.  She has published widely on both witness memory and investigative interviewing and regularly speaks at international conferences aimed at both academics and investigative practitioners.