Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, professor of History at Carleton University, specializes in the history of Mexico. Currently she is working on a project about concepts of honour, morality and sexuality in Mexico’s “middle period” from 1750 to 1856, based on court documents.
Charlotte Sanden
Charlotte Sanden
Charlotte Sanden graduated in B.Sc. Psychology at the University of Cologne and is currently enrolled as a Master student in the program Psychology of Sport and Exercise. She is a cross-fit athlete and works as a student research assistant in the in:prove project.
Peter Koval
Peter Koval
Peter Koval completed a B.A. (Hons) at the University of Melbourne in 2006, majoring in Islamic studies and psychology. After a brief foray into studying music, Peter returned to the University of Melbourne to begin his PhD in social psychology in 2008. Peter's research focuses on how people to come to terms with their flaws and imperfections.
Jean-Philippe Melchior
Jean-Philippe Melchior
Jean-Philippe Melchior is a Professor at Le Mans University and affiliated with the ESO laboratory. With a Ph.D. in political science and sociology, he is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maine. He is a member of the ESO-Le Mans laboratory (UMR 6590-CNRS) and associated with GTM (Paris X). His research focuses on three areas within the sociology of work. The first area concerns work organization and working conditions. In the face of transformations in these areas, he examines employee adaptations. The second area concerns working time and its articulation with other social times.
Nina Regenberg
Nina Regenberg
Nina Regenberg (German) currently strives towards obtaining her Ph.D. at VU University Amsterdam. She received her undergraduate degree in social and cognitive psychology at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly International University Bremen) and subsequently pursued a Master of Science in Social Psychology in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on issues of social cognition, such as the functions of language and theories of embodied cognition.
Michaela Forrai
Michaela Forrai
Michaela Forrai is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna and a member of the Vienna Media Change and Innovation Lab (VMCI). In her dissertation, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Desirée Schmuck, she focuses on young people’s interactions with communicative artificial intelligence agents (e.g., ChatGPT and Replika) and how this relates to their well-being. Further research interests generally concern the areas of media change and media innovation, media psychology, and health communication, such as (social) media use and well-being/mental health/suicide prevention.
Wilco van Dijk
Wilco van Dijk
Wilco van Dijk is an associate professor of social psychology at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Wilco is an expert on the psychology of emotions. He has written about the interesting complexities of several emotions such as schadenfreude, disappointment, regret, predicting your own future emotions, and collective pride and guilt.
Emmylou Sophie Schädler
Emmylou Sophie Schädler
Emmylou Sophie Schädler is part of the Social Media team at In-Mind and a master's student in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests center on social cognition and emotion, especially in the context of stress regulation and prosocial behavior. Emmy also leads educational workshops for high-school students and is passionate about making psychological insights accessible to a broader audience, bridging academic research and real-world application. She also authored articles for In-Mind.
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Mannheim, Germany (1980) and was previously affiliated with the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1981-1992), ZUMA, a social science research center in Mannheim, Germany (1987-1992), and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1993-2013). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina. His research focuses on the situated, embodied, and experiential nature of human judgment and its implications for social science research.
Marina F. Thomas
Marina F. Thomas
Marina F. Thomas 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 a psychologist and holds a PhD in media and communication sciences. Her research specialties are media, sexuality, and romantic relationships.