Abdolhossein Abdollahi
Abdolhossein Abdollahi
Abdolhossein Abdollahi is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Islamic Azad University-Zarand Branch, Iran. His main area of interest is Terror Management Theory (TMT), a social psychological theory positing that much human social behavior is driven by the need to avoid thoughts of one's death and mortality.He is also interested in such areas as false memory, judgment and decision making, evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and social embodiment.
Jerry Prosper Medernach
Jerry Prosper Medernach
Born in 1985 in Luxembourg, Dr. Jerry Medernach began his sports studies in 2006 at the German Sport University Cologne. He graduated (Ph.D.) in 2015 and has over two decades of experience as a climbing coach, more than 10 years as a sports scientist, and eight years as a physical education teacher. In his primary profession, he currently works as an expert in cognition and sports psychology at the National Institute of Physical Activity and Sports in Luxembourg, where he educates coaches, athletes, and teachers. In his second life, he works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Exercise Training and Sports Informatics of the German Sports University. Given that climbing has always been a pivotal component of his life, he is currently investigating perceptual and cognitive skills of climbers. He started climbing in 2002, became a member of the German National Climbing Team NRW, and has climbed routes up to 8b+.
Carina Giesen
Carina Giesen
Carina G. Giesen is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the HMU Health and Medical University Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. She studied psychology in Jena, Germany, and Glasgow, UK and received her PhD in Jena. Her research focuses on automatic action regulation. Stimulus-response binding and retrieval processes are therefore a core feature of her research, which she relates to learning phenomena, such as observational learning, contingency learning, and evaluative learning.
Martin Schwichow
Martin Schwichow
Dr. Martin Schwichow is Professor of Physics and its Didactics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg - University of Education. He studied physics and geography at the Philipps University of Marburg and holds a doctorate in physics didactics. In his research, he focuses on the role of language in learning physics, the promotion of experimental skills and climate education in physics lessons. He is particularly interested in the extent to which an understanding of scientific ways of thinking and working facilitates a willingness to act in the context of climate change.
Kathryn Bartlett Anderson
Kathryn Bartlett Anderson
Kathryn B. Anderson is a Social Psychologist and Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She has conducted research on the causes of aggression and violence for over 20 years. She is particularly interested in the "intersectionality" of current feminist and multicultural thought with research on aggression.
Amy Muise
Amy Muise
Amy Muise earned her PhD in 2011 from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga, funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Banting Fellowship.
Lucius Caviola
Lucius Caviola
Lucius Caviola is a Psychology MSc candidate at the University of Oxford, and his research focusses on questions at the intersection of psychology, ethics and rationality. He received his BSc in Psychology from the University of Basel, and has completed full-time research internships at Oxford University’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics.
Lorraine Hope
Lorraine Hope
Lorraine Hope is Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests concern the performance of human cognition in applied contexts, including memory and decision-making under challenging conditions. In particular, her work has focused on developing theoretically-informed approaches to eliciting information in policing and intelligence contexts. She is currently an Associate Editor for the British Psychological Society (BPS) journal, Legal and Criminological Psychology and a Consulting Editor for the American Psychological Association (APA) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. She has published widely on both witness memory and investigative interviewing and regularly speaks at international conferences aimed at both academics and investigative practitioners.
Susannah Parkin
Susannah Parkin
Susannah Parkin received her B.A. in Psychology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. She worked as the Program Coordinator at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests include depression etiology and treatment and psychotherapy process and outcome.
Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron's work has appeared in Ms., the Guardian, VIDA, the Rumpus, LARB, and elsewhere. She lives in California and at kcoldiron.com, and tweets @ferrifrigida.