Magazine staff

Marco van Bommel

Marco van Bommel earned his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Utrecht University, and his Master’s degree in Social psychology from the VU University Amsterdam. Currently he is finalizing his dissertation on the bystander effect, and has a research position on bystander intervention at the VU department of Social and Organizational psychology and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Some of his research interests are bystander intervention, pro-social behavior, social pressure, reputation, and eyewitness memory. 

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

Oliver Genschow

Oliver Genschow studied psychology in Basel and received his PhD in 2012 at the University of Mannheim. After three years of research at the University of Ghent (Belgium), he worked as Junior Professor for Social Cognition at the University of Cologne. Since October 2022, he has been Professor of Cognitive, Social and Economic Psychology at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. In his research, Oliver Genschow investigates the question of how the observation and execution of movement patterns influence cognitions, judgments, and actions.

Flora Almosdi

Flora Almosdi is a graduate student at the Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology Specialisation at University of Eotvos Lorand, Budapest. Her research is focused on human-computer interaction and its social aspects. She is a member of a group that designs interventions based on environmental psychology and she volunteers at an organization for children's rights.

Carolin Schuster

Carolin Schuster studied psychology at the LMU Munich and completed her doctorate at the University of Konstanz. She is currently Junior Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg and her topics of research include social identities, stereotypes and social conflicts.

Kaitlyn Werner

Kaitlyn is an editor at the English version of In-Mind magazine. She is currently an NIH postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Broadly, her research takes a multi-method and interdisciplinary approach to studying self-regulation, motivation, and emotion, with a particular emphasis on how to help people achieve their goals. Previously, she was a Provost’s postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a SSHRC Banting postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto, and received her PhD in social, personality, and health psychology from Carleton University. To learn more about Kaitlyn, you can check out her website here.

Alana C. Krix

Alana Krix is originally from Germany, and is currently completing her doctoral studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is conducting research on best-practice regarding obtaining reliable eyewitness statements.

Maša Iskra

Maša Iskra completed her studies in Psychology and Sport Management (BSc/BA) at Manchester Metropolitan University and Sport Psychology (MSc) at the German Sport University Cologne. Since March 2022, she has been pursuing her doctorate at the Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology. Her PhD topic is the embodiment of cognition and breathing. Twitter/X: @MasaIskra

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.