Thomas Schubert
Thomas Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert received his Diploma and PhD in Psychology from the University of Jena in Germany. After staying as a postdoc at the International Graduate Colleage of Conflict and Cooperation in Jena and at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he obtained a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and came to the Netherlands to work at the VU University Amsterdam and Utrecht University. Thomas' primary research interests focus on the embodiment of social relations, and experiences in virtual environments. Mail:schubert@igroup.org
Yael Bar-Shachar
Yael Bar-Shachar
Yael Bar-Shachar is currently completing her Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev while finishing her internship as a clinical psychologist. Her dissertation focuses on the formation of shared reality in close relationships, exploring how individual differences in tolerating uncertainty (such as in individuals with social anxiety disorder) influence this process.
Laysee Ong
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
Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert
Mareike Ehlert studied English, History, and Education at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and Maynooth University in Ireland. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology in Education at the University of Münster. Her research focuses on how children learn to read and how scientific findings on reading can be implemented into school practice.
Ryan Elder
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.
Frank Bosco
Frank Bosco
Dr. Frank Bosco is a member of the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research spans the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational research methods. Dr. Bosco is especially interested in employee staffing (e.g., employee selection), cognitive ability testing, meta-analysis, big data, open science, and approaches for summarizing entire scientific literatures. His research appears in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Bosco is co-Founder of metaBUS.org, a winner of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities's Digging into Data Challenge and currently funded by the National Science Foundation, SHRM Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership. When launched, the project will enable researchers and practitioners to make sense of more than 1,000,000 research findings by navigating an easy-to-understand "map" of constructs that conducts instant meta-analyses on virtually any topic in the scientific space.