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Iniobong Essien

Iniobong Essien is a social psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the chair of Social and Organizational Psychology of Social Work at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He earned his PhD in social psychology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He worked as a research associate at the chair of Community Psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, and as a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination, and their interaction with social contexts. He also investigates the measurement of attitudes and the consequences of group-based stigmatization.

Angela Celebre

Angela Celebre is in her final year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. She is working towards her Honours Bachelor of Science, with a double major in Psychology and Human Biology. She has been working in a neuro-oncology lab at St. Michael's Hospital for the past two years, and has also recently started as a research assistant in a social psychology lab at the University of Toronto. She is interested in pursuing a career in medicine. 

Stefan T. Siegel

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Business Education (IWP) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He is the author of (inter)national articles and books and has several years of work experience in research and teaching in (higher) education. He has been awarded prizes for his work. His current research focuses on educational theory, educational myths, professionalization of teachers, science communication, and sustainability education.

Aaron Moss

Aaron is a second year graduate student at Tulane University. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2011. His research investigates issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Specifically, he is interested in how people maintain an unprejudiced view of themselves yet hold and express bias against others. He is also interested in how members of majority and minority groups perceive (or fail to perceive) discrimination and the motivations that influence their perceptions.

Gloria Mittmann

Gloria Mittmann is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre Transitional Psychiatry of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Science, which is concerned with topics regarding the mental health and mental illness of transition-age youth. She is an academic psychologist with a special interest in media psychology. Her work focuses on the development and evaluation of serious games for children and adolescents that should improve mental health and reduce stigma of mental illnesses.

Stephanie Goodwin

Stephanie Goodwin, Ph.D. (Social and Personality Psychology), is the Director for Faculty Development & Leadership at Wright State University and former Program Director for the LEADER Consortium, a multi-institutional NSF ADVANCE program supporting gender equity in STEM in the greater Dayton, OH region. Her research interests include: social power, impression formation, implicit social cognition, prejudice confrontation and reducing intergroup bias.

Jakob Kasper

  Jakob Kasper is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks Programme (IP-PAD, No. 101072992) and former graduate intern at Public First. He studies affective polarization - how feelings about one’s own group versus other groups develop and change - especially in multi-party systems and among adolescents.

Jan Alexander Häusser

Jan Häusser received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2010. Jan currently holds a professorship for social psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. His research interests comprise social identity and stress, occupational health psychology and social decision making, with a focus on the effects of psycho-physiological impairments (e.g., stress, sleep deprivation) on social decision making. Jan can be contacted via email at jan.a.haeusser@psychol.uni-giessen.de.

Ann-Christin Posten

Ann-Christin Posten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne. Upon receiving her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2012, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Ann-Christin’s research focuses on distrust and cognitive information processing.

Peter J. Van Koppen

Peter J. Van Koppen is a psychologist and professor of legal psychology at VU University Amsterdam and Maastricht University. His main research interest is the structure of evidence in criminal cases.