William Chopik
William Chopik
William J. Chopik, MA, is a doctoral candidate in the department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He studies the continuity and change of relationship processes across the lifespan and individual differences in responses to intimacy.
Amir Ghoniem
Amir Ghoniem
Amir Ghoniem is a former Fulbright scholar and currently a PhD student at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests include self-control, desires and desire regulation and health-behavior interventions. He can be contacted at amir.ghoniem@uni-koeln.de
Rachel New
Rachel New
Rachel New has been Research Coordinator for The Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, part of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, since 2010. The Centre’s international research focuses on improving intergroup relations using social psychology, and regularly advises on public policy. This article was written while working on the Oxford Martin School Programme on Resource Stewardship.
Maartje Schreuder
Maartje Schreuder
Maartje Schreuder works at the interplay between (legal) psychology and forensic linguistics, in this way combining her linguistic background (PhD Groningen University, 2006) with her current work as a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. Her research interests are in forensic speech analysis, earwitnesses, and cognitive biases in forensic experts’ work, the last topic strongly relating to her case work as an expert witness for The Maastricht Forensic Institute. In her case work, she applies a blind procedure, in fact a form of sequential unmasking, with an evidence line-up including fillers, to prevent herself against bias as much as possible.
Monika Leszczyńska
Monika Leszczyńska
Monika Leszczyńska is Assistant Professor of Empirical Legal Research at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Netherlands. She received her PhD in law from University of Bonn (Germany). With her research, she delivers evidence-based insights to legal decision-makers on the impact of law on human behavior. Among others, she has researched how gender quotas influence group cooperation. She also studies how individuals make decisions in the online environment, i.e., how zero-price offers affect people’s decisions about their contractual rights and privacy. This research project has been funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.
Susanne M. Schmittat
Susanne M. Schmittat
Dr. Susanne M. Schmittat is a university assistant at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, at the Department of Criminal Law and Legal Psychology. She researches how information is perceived and evaluated in the criminal process and how this evaluation later affects legal decisions (indictment, verdict). In this area, she studies the influence of (withdrawn) confessions, legal expertise, and narrative persuasion. Other areas of focus include moral expertise, procedural justice, and the evaluation of witness testimony.
Arne Sjöström
Arne Sjöström
Arne Sjöström is a PhD student at the Philipps-University Marburg. He studied psychology at the Georg-August University Göttingen and the Philipps-University Marburg. In 2009, he was a visiting research scholar at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His PhD project deals with the functionality of revenge reactions in group settings.
Sylvain Laborde
Sylvain Laborde
PD Dr. Dr. Sylvain Laborde is a trained psychologist, currently working as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology, at the German Sport University Cologne. He holds a PhD in Sport Science, a PhD in Psychology, and a Habilitation in Psychology. His research focuses on the heart-brain connection, specifically heart rate variability (HRV). Along with his colleagues, he developed methodological recommendations for the investigation of HRV, as well as the Vagal Tank Theory, to understand how HRV is connected to self-regulation, cognition, and emotion regulation. Additionally, he collaborates with national associations to share his research with elite athletes and coaches.
Jennifer Bosson
Jennifer Bosson
Jennifer Bosson received her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Her research interests include gender, the self, and stereotypes. Dr. Bosson can be reached at jbosson@usf.edu.
Babett Lobinger
Babett Lobinger
Dr. Babett Lobinger is a trained psychologist and sport scientist at the German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology. As a senior researcher she focuses on high performance psychology and mental coaching of elite athletes as well as coach education.