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Alicia Gilbert

Alicia Gilbert is a research associate and PhD candidate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her studies in Mainz and at the University of Amsterdam. The focus of her research lies in the psychology of digital media use and effects, particularly topics including self-regulation, well-being, and media entertainment. She is active on bluesky and X/Twitter.

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.    

Justine Kohl

Justine Kohl completed her MA Degree in linguistics at the University of Bielefeld. During and after her studies, she worked there for several years as a research assistant in the Department of Language and Communication. She is currently working as a research assistant in Project RESPOND! at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. In the context of her dissertation, she would like to microanalytically explore subtle and interactive manifestations of antisemitic hate speech with the use of conversation analysis. 

Winnifred Louis

Winnifred R. Louis (PhD McGill, 2001) is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Her research interests focus on the influence of identity and norms on social decision-making. She has studied this broad topic in contexts from politics and community activism to health and environmental choices. She is Associate Editor of Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology, and has served or is serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, The Australian Journal of Psychology, the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, the British Journal of Social Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. She is a member of numerous professional associations including the the Centre for Research in Social Psychology, at the University of Queensland; the Association for Psychological Science; the Australian Psychological Society; the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; the International Association of Conflict Management, and the Society for Australasian Social Psychology. She has served on the Australian Psychological Society's Public Interest Advisory Group and she is the national convenor of the Australian group Psychologists for Peace, http://groups.psychology.org.au/pfp/ .

Camilla Matera

Camilla Matera is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Florence. Her main research interests include body image, mattering, interpersonal and intergroup relations, acculturation, attitudes, meta-stereotypes, and psychosocial well-being. She is the coordinator of the Research Unit “I’M IN – Self-Image and Social Inclusion” at the University of Florence. 

Gosia Mikołajczak

Gosia Mikołajczak has been recently awarded PhD from the University of Warsaw. Her doctoral thesis focuses on gender discrimination and cultural forces that propagate it (https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/1367). In other lines of research she examines group processes related to discrimination, prejudice, identity formation, and collective action. E-mail: mmikolajczak@psych.uw.edu.pl
www: http://cbu.psychologia.pl/pl/zespol/mikolajczak
Twitter: @manatee_e

Jan Crusius

Jan Crusius is an experimental social psychologist and professor at University of Greifswald (Germany). In his research, he investigates how social comparisons affect cognition, affect, and motivation. He is particularly interested in the role of social emotions such as admiration, envy, and pride in shaping intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. Together with Oliver Genschow, Laura König, and Melanie Sauerland, he is the editor-in-chief of the German In-Mind version.

Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood

Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood is an undergraduate in his final year at Florida State University, where he studies moral psychology under the guidance of Dr. Paul Conway as a member of the Moral and Social Processing Lab. Jacob’s recent research focuses have included moral dilemma judgments, person perception, and moral regret.