Magazine staff

Corinna Michels

Corinna is Editor for Clinical Psychology at the English version of In-Mind. She is a Professor of Psychology at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany, and is also in training to become a licensed cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, with completion expected late 2025. Her research focuses on the clinical and social-cognitive consequences of social interactions. She investigates how social exclusion affects psychological needs, social comparison, and well-being, and explores strategies to restore social connectedness. Her work also examines how trust and distrust develop in interpersonal contexts. Find her here.

Sian Jones

Dr. Siân Jones is an Early Career Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She researches the social developmental psychology of friendship groups and blogs at: http://throughtheacademiclookingglass.wordpress.com. You can also follow her on Twitter, @Sianoxbrookes. 

Marcel Meuer

Dr. Marcel Meuer studied psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany), where he also earned his doctorate. His research explores beliefs in conspiracy theories and cognitive biases on Wikipedia. He currently works as a research associate in the Department of Psychological Methods and Evaluation at FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany). 

Aaron Moss

Aaron is a second year graduate student at Tulane University. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2011. His research investigates issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Specifically, he is interested in how people maintain an unprejudiced view of themselves yet hold and express bias against others. He is also interested in how members of majority and minority groups perceive (or fail to perceive) discrimination and the motivations that influence their perceptions.

Tanja Oschatz

Tanja Oschatz studied psychology in Hamburg and Osnabrück and has been pursuing her PhD in social psychology and sexual science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2022. Her research focuses on women’s sexuality and gender differences in sexual pleasure.

Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin, Ph.D. (Social and Personality Psychology), is the Director for Faculty Development & Leadership at Wright State University and former Program Director for the LEADER Consortium, a multi-institutional NSF ADVANCE program supporting gender equity in STEM in the greater Dayton, OH region. Her research interests include: social power, impression formation, implicit social cognition, prejudice confrontation and reducing intergroup bias.

Jan Alexander Häusser

Jan Häusser received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2010. Jan currently holds a professorship for social psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. His research interests comprise social identity and stress, occupational health psychology and social decision making, with a focus on the effects of psycho-physiological impairments (e.g., stress, sleep deprivation) on social decision making. Jan can be contacted via email at jan.a.haeusser@psychol.uni-giessen.de.

Arash Emamzadeh

Chris Reinders Folmer

Chris Reinders Folmer is a researcher at the program Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort at Erasmus School of Law (ESL), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also affiliated with Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). His research is situated at the intersection of psychology, law, economics, and sociology. It gathers empirical evidence to test the validity of the assumptions that underlie law and policy. His major research themes include the effect of apology in legal disputes and the question how people weigh their self-interest against the interest of others in various social situations. More generally, his research focuses on trust, cooperation, ethics, reputation, law, and social policy.

Olivier Dujols

Olivier Dujols is a PhD student at Université Grenoble Alpes. He is working on social thermoregulation and co-regulation in couples.