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Bruna Calado

Bruna Calado is a PhD Candidate from the House of Legal Psychology, affiliated to Maastricht University and the University of Gothenburg. Her PhD research focuses on the reliability of eyewitness memory when witnesses have repeatedly experienced an event. She has attended the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba in Brazil where she graduated as a psychologist.

Carmen Cervone

Maria Gröndal

Maria Gröndal is a clinical psychologist and PhD student within psychology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on irritability, anger and impulsivity with a special interest in women with severe premenstrual symptoms.

Janneke Schilder

Janneke Schilder earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social Psychology from the University of Utrecht and currently earned her Master’s degree of Social Psychology at the University of Tilburg. Janneke has a wide range of research interest, but most of them involve intimate relationships and family bounds. One of her recent research projects investigates the role of warmth and embodiment on social behavior.

Felix Peter

Dr. Felix Peter is a qualified psychologist and school psychology consultant at the Saxony-Anhalt State School Administration. He is part of the research initiative "Research for Planetary Health & Transformative Change" and dedicates himself professionally and in the association Psychologists for Future (Psy4F) to the topics of sustainability education from a psychological perspective and resilience in dealing with socio-ecological crises.  

Melanie B. Tannenbaum

Melanie Tannenbaum received a B.A. in psychology with honors from Duke University in 2009. She is currently a second-year graduate student in social psychology at the University of Illinois. Her main research interests include power, persuasion, and the effects of general action/inaction goals on behavior change, specifically behavioral inhibition.

Valeria C. Eckardt

Dr. Valeria C. Eckardt is a sport psychologist and systemic family counselor. Her research is situated at the intersection of sport psychology and couple-/family psychology with a main interest on parental support, interpersonal stress and coping, and the parent-coach relationship. She currently works at Witten/Herdecke University as a Post Doc.
Twitter/X: @valeria_eckardt

Alex Haslam

Alex Haslam is Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in social, organizational and clinical contexts. Together with over 200 co-authors around the world, he has written and edited 12 books and published over 240 peer-reviewed articles on these topics.

Jörn Munzert

Jörn Munzert is Professor of Human Movement Science and Sports Psychology at Justus Liebig University Giessen. The graduate psychologist completed his doctorate at the TU Berlin and his postdoctoral habilitation in psychology specializing in human movement at the German Sport University Cologne. His research interests lie in the area of motor control and motor learning with a particular focus on how we perceive human movements and how we are able to react to them in a targeted manner.

Rosanna Guadagno

Dr. Rosanna Guadagno received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003 where she studied social influence and persuasion and developed a strong interest in the use of online social interaction as a means of social influence. To extend her knowledge of the impact of technology on social interaction, Dr. Guadagno spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied persuasion and non-verbal behavior in immersive virtual environments. Currently, Dr. Guadagno is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama where she directs the Online Social Influence Lab. E-mail: r.guadagno@in-mind.org