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Roy Baumeister

Roy Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He earned his MA at Duke University and his PhD at Princeton. His research interests include self and identity, emotion, social rejection and belongingness, aggression, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, interpersonal processes, defensiveness and self-deception, self-defeating behaviors, quest for meaning, motivated cognition, and interdisciplinary approaches to psychology.

Michele Lastella

Dr. Michele Lastella (PhD in Psychology), Senior Lecturer at the Appleton Institute for Behavioural Science, CQUniversity. His primary area of research concerns the study of sleep in elite athletes. He has worked and currently works with several sporting organisations examining sleep, recovery, and performance.

Clare Jonas

Clare Jonas hails from the United Kingdom, where she received her Bachelor of Science in psychology from Warwick University. She pursued a Masters degree in neuroscience at the Free University in Amsterdam before returning to the UK to do a PhD in psychology at the University of Sussex. After completing her PhD, she worked as a teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of East London. Her area of expertise is human cognition, and she is particularly interested in synaesthesia, numerical cognition, and embodiment. Mail: c.jonas@in-mind.org

Denise Vesper

Denise Vesper studied psychology at Saarland University with a focus on industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology and received her doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from Saarland University in 2023. Her research focuses in particular on strikes, but also on social psychological topics such as system justification and populist attitudes. Twitter: @denise_vesper    

Helen Boucher

Helen Boucher received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently an Associate Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Broadly, her research interests concern social influences on the self. Specific projects include how self-knowledge, self-evaluation, and self-regulation are impacted by culture, important relationship partners, and threats to meaning systems such as uncertainty and mortality salience. E-mail: h.boucher@in-mind.org

Barbara Hadolt

Barbara Hadolt is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, currently based in Graz, Austria, where she also completed her psychology studies. In addition to her work as a psycho-oncologist, she spent many years working as a systemic family therapist in her own practice in Munich, working with individuals, couples and families. Her therapeutic experience was also significantly shaped by her role as a therapist in a psychosomatic clinic and an outpatient children’s hospice service for several years. Currently, she works as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the LKH - Landeskrankenhaus Graz.

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Linda P. Juang

Prof. Linda Juang, Ph.D., is a Professor of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on the adaptation and adjustment of adolescents and college students of immigrant background within the contexts of family, school, and community, which she approaches from an ecological system's perspective. Her particular interest is in how three key immigration-related issues, parent and adolescent acculturation, ethnic identity, and racial/ethnic discrimination, relate to adolescent well-being and health. 

Nicole Janz

Nicole Janz is a political scientist and teaches research methods for social scientists at Cambridge University. She publishes the Political Science Replication Blog and co-founded the Political Science Replication Initiative which maintains a repository for replication studies. Her peer-reviewed article "Bringing the Gold Standard Into the Class Room: Replication in University Teaching” is forthcoming in International Studies Perspectives. In her own research Nicole examines the effects of multinational corporations and their foreign investment on human rights protection.

Twitter:@polscireplicate 

Marc Wilson