Magazine staff

Matteo Masi

Matteo Masi received his Ph.D. from the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Surrey, and he is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His interests are in social psychology, in particular social cognition and impression formation, that is how we represent others in our minds and how we judge them by combining available information.

Laysee Ong

Lay See Ong is a postgraduate student at the Singapore Management University. Supervised by Angela Leung, her research interests varies (too broadly for her own good!) from creativity to mobility and self-regulation. One of her recent research projects investigated the beliefs about hierarchy among high and low relational mobility individuals. To know more her research exploits, you can visit her website. As a side project, she is also exploring and advocating the use of the virtual world, Second Life, for psychological research. While she’s not working, she enjoys good music, reading, and her pole dancing classes. E-mail: l.ong@in-mind.org

Dr. Gizem Samdan

Dr. Gizem Samdan is a Research Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany, in the Department of Developmental Psychology. She is currently working on a longitudinal study, where she is contributing to the understanding of early childhood development and how it shapes later life, with a focus on the role of socio-ecological factors.

Ryan Elder

Ryan S. Elder is an assistant professor of Marketing at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Michigan. His research explores the interplay between sensory perception and cognition within an advertising context, with a particular focus on imagery.  

Sara Holland Levin

Sara Holland Levin (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Media at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her research area focuses on political communication, misinformation, and social media. Specifically, her work uses computational and survey methods to explore topics of politicization and polarization, especially concerning traditional and social media as sources of information.

Sam Portnow

Bianca Tallone

Bianca Tallone is a PhD student in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Genoa. Her research interests include dehumanization, gender-based violence, social exclusion, and perceptions of time scarcity. She works under the supervision of Prof. Luca Andrighetto at the SIP Lab, University of Genoa.

Joanne Rechdan

Katherine Hoogesteyn

Katherine Hoogesteyn is a PhD candidate in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Legal Psychology Program at Maastricht University and University of Portsmouth. Her line of research focuses on how the interview environment can influence key aspects of the interview process, namely rapport building and the disclosure of information. She is interested in how practitioners can use environmental manipulations as techniques to improve the interview process.

Linda Jonsson

Linda Jonsson, holds a PhD in medicine and is a lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at Barnafrid, Linköping university, Sweden. Her research focuses on child victims of sexual exploitation, especially online sexual abuse and young people selling sex.