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Sarah Spies

Sarah Spies completed her bachelor's degree in psychology at Saarland University and is now continuing her studies in the master's program, focusing on industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology. She also works as an assistant researcher at the Institute for Social Research and Social Economy in Saarbrücken.  

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

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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 

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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.

Antonietta Curci

Antonietta Curci is a full professor of General Psychology and Forensic Psychology at the Department of Education, Psychology, Communication of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy. She coordinates a post-graduate program in Forensic Psychology and she is the delegate of the University Rector for students' rights. Her research work is about autobiographical and Flashbulb memory, eyewitness testimony, executive functions in emotional regulation, psychopathy, and emotional intelligence. She is an Associate Editor of the journal "Memory" and she cooperates with research groups in US, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, and UK. She frequently participates as an expert witness in criminal and civil forensic cases concerning criminal responsibility of juvenile offenders, witness testimony of children and victims of sexual abuses, family conflicts involving maltreatments and abuses.

Yannik Escher

Yannik Escher holds a master’s degree in Psychology (M.Sc.) from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and now serves a research fellow at the Chair of Economic and Social Psychology at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. His research encompasses various social and business psychology inquiries. More specifically, his work focuses on the assessment of individual differences in negotiation performance, the influence of strategies and tactics (for example, anchoring, rationales, concession-making, pricing) in a variety of negotiation settings, or on typical response behavior in research and personnel selection. You can find Yannik on LinkedIn. E-Mail: yannik.escher@leuphana.de

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.