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Jasper Froehlich

Jasper Froehlich holds a Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and Political Science with a teaching option from Freie Universität Berlin and is pursuing a Master’s in Rehabilitation Pedagogy at Humboldt University of Berlin. He contributed to the DFG-funded project “Gedankenkarussell: The Child Anxiety Project,” which investigates the causes of severe social anxiety in children and adolescents.

Tilo Strobach

Prof. Dr. Tilo Strobach studied psychology at the Free University in Berlin and started his doctorate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2006. After a research stay at the University of California, San Diego he finished his doctoral degree in 2009 on mechanisms of optimized dual-task performance after practice. After that he hold post-doc positions at the chair of general and experimental psychology at the LMU Munich and at the chair of general psychology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He also was an acting professor at University of Hagen. Now, Tilo Strobach is a professor in general psychology at the Medical School Hamburg. He focuses his research on the analysis of cognitive plasticity as a result of training (for example: video-game, dual-task, working memory, and task switching training) and aging, the specification of cognitive processing architecture in situations that demand executive functions as well as the perception of complex objects.

Nicholas O. Rule

Nicholas O. Rule, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition at the University of Toronto. His research has been recognized through several awards, including the Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network, SAGE Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, Early Career Award from the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario.

Conny Quaedflieg

Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis

Catherine Hamilton‐Giachritsis (Forensic and Clinical Psychologist) is a Reader in Applied Forensic Psychology at the University of Bath. Catherine has worked in the field of child maltreatment for over 20 years. In the last decade, her work has focused on online child sexual exploitation and abuse, from both victim and offender perspectives.

Andrew Moynihan

Andrew Moynihan, PhD, is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests are how people engage in unhealthy or interpersonal behaviours as means to escape from threats to meaning in life (e.g., boredom, disbelief in free will) and the variables that promote or hinder these tendencies. He is also interested in identity-related research.

Aline Lima-Nunes

Aline Lima-Nunes holds a Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil. Her main interests are justice perceptions, intergroup conflicts, prejudice and discriminatory behavior.

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Uirassu Borges

German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology, Department of Social and Health Psychology, Germany

Jay Michaels

Jay Michaels has been working towards his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Florida Atlantic University since 2007, after receiving B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Central Florida. Drawing on his past research experience in meteorology, Jay actively uses mathematics and computer models to understand psychology phenomena. His current primary research interests include human conflict, dyadic coupling, and integration of psychology theories using mathematical concepts.