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Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera

Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera is an assistent professor at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Amsterdam.

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.

Joonha Park

Joonha Park has been pursuing her research at the University of Melbourne, after receiving her undergraduate degree at Korea University, S. Korea in 2006. After completing her honours work on dehumanization in 2007, she commenced her graduate study in 2008. Her research interests include self-perception, self-regulation, implicit social cognition, group stereotypes, and effect of multiculturalism on development.

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.

Arno van Voorst

Arno van Voorst, chief bibliography and the primary author of this article, completed both his Bachelor and Master Degrees at the Free University, Amsterdam. His research focuses on emotions, emotion regulation, leadership and power, social relationships with pets, and general motivation science. Indeed, going from his research interests, it should not come as a surprise that he has picked up a keen interest in evolutionary perspectives.

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.

Scott Sleek

Scott Sleek is the news director for the Association for Psychological Science, where he is in charge of promoting the public understanding of psychological research.  He runs a variety of public education campaigns on scientific topics such as, the teen brain, learning styles, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nina Wieking

Nina Wieking studied political science and law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, before being accepted for a master's program in journalism at the LMU. During this time, she researched the topic of "manifestation".

Simone Schnall

Sarah Vahed

Sarah Vahed has an interdisciplinary background, having studied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Law. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Decision Neuroscience at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands. Her research examines how people form judgements and make decisions related to pressing societal and moral issues, such as economic inequality, social injustice, and online harm.