Angela Ka-yee Leung
Angela Ka-yee Leung
Angela Ka-yee Leung received hers from the University of Illinois from Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University and is interested in the dynamic effects of intercultural interactions and their implications for cultural competence. Mail: angelakyl@gmail.com.
Elena Benini
Elena Benini
Elena Benini is part of In-Mind magazine's website team. She is a postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where she obtained her PhD in May 2024. Her research interests span from cognitive control in multitasking settings, to associative processes such as feature binding and episodic retrieval and to bilingualism and language control processes. Find her here. elena.benini[at]psych[dot]rwth-aachen.de
Suzanne Oosterwijk
Suzanne Oosterwijk
Suzanne Oosterwijk received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. After working as a postdoc at Northeastern University in Boston for three years, she is now back at the University of Amsterdam. One of her main research interests is how the brain constructs emotion. More specifically, she studies how neural systems implement the interaction between concepts and bodily states to produce emotion experience and emotion understanding. Recently, she started to investigate morbid curiosity: the phenomenon that people regularly approach and explore highly intense negative stimuli. E-mail: s.oosterwijk@in-mind.org
Marcus Munafo
Marcus Munafo
Marcus Munafò is Professor of Biological Psychology in the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/research/brain/targ/). Follow his group on Twitter: @BristolTARG
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth studies reasoning and decision-making as a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Virginia. She used to be a securities fraud defense attorney, and much of her current work is inspired by her legal background as well as her travels in East Asia. She is particularly interested in the different strategies that people use to understand how the world "fits together," including causal reasoning, analogical reasoning, and blame assignment.
Diego Lasio
Diego Lasio
Master in Psychology, specialized in Systemic-Relational Psychotherapy, Diego is a research fellow in Social Psychology at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Cagliari, Italia (University of Cagliari, Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, Cagliari, Italy) and Associate member at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Lisboa, Portugal (Lisbon University Institute, Centre for Research and Social Intervention, Lisbon, Portugal). His research focuses on the discursive construction of gender and sexualities, analysing the related social practices of marginalization and discrimination.
Katherine Hoogesteyn
Katherine Hoogesteyn
Katherine Hoogesteyn is a PhD candidate in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Legal Psychology Program at Maastricht University and University of Portsmouth. Her line of research focuses on how the interview environment can influence key aspects of the interview process, namely rapport building and the disclosure of information. She is interested in how practitioners can use environmental manipulations as techniques to improve the interview process.
Linda Jonsson
Linda Jonsson
Linda Jonsson, holds a PhD in medicine and is a lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at Barnafrid, Linköping university, Sweden. Her research focuses on child victims of sexual exploitation, especially online sexual abuse and young people selling sex.
Regine Louis
Regine Louis
Regine is a fourth-year Psychology and Women's Studies major at the University of Florida. Her research interests include implicit cognition, stereotyping/prejudice, and the extent to which culture influences behavior. In her free time she enjoys making music.
Thomas Feiler
Thomas Feiler
Thomas Feiler holds a master’s degree in Media Communication (M.Sc.) from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Communication Psychology and New Media and at the Writing Center of the University of Würzburg. Previously, he studied journalism (B.A.) in Eichstätt (Germany) and Colorado (USA) and worked in various editorial offices.