Antonietta Curci
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
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
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.
Dr. Vera Zamoscik
Dr. Vera Zamoscik
Vera Zamoscik is currently a researcher and lecturer in clinical and biological psychology at the University of Mannheim. Her work focuses on respiration-centered interventions and their role in mental health and stress management. Vera is also deeply engaged in emergency psychology, particularly in psychosocial emergency care for first responders, focusing on aspects such as implementing training and prevention, and studying the impact of critical incidents like the 2021 flood disaster in Germany. She earned her PhD from Heidelberg University, examining the role of sensory sensitivity and respiration patterns in mental health. Find more about Vera's work here.