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Kate Schramm

Kate Schramm is a master’s student in psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She is interested in the way digital media shape psychological processes such as self-perception and self-portrayal and their relation with psychological well-being. In addition to her studies, she works in human resources development and as a workshop trainer, focusing on topics such as communication, leadership, and stress management. 

Mikaela Magnusson

Mikaela Magnusson is a Ph.D. student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on forensic child interviewing techniques with preschool-aged children.

Arash Emamzadeh

Chris Reinders Folmer

Chris Reinders Folmer is a researcher at the program Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort at Erasmus School of Law (ESL), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also affiliated with Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). His research is situated at the intersection of psychology, law, economics, and sociology. It gathers empirical evidence to test the validity of the assumptions that underlie law and policy. His major research themes include the effect of apology in legal disputes and the question how people weigh their self-interest against the interest of others in various social situations. More generally, his research focuses on trust, cooperation, ethics, reputation, law, and social policy.

Olivier Dujols

Olivier Dujols is a PhD student at Université Grenoble Alpes. He is working on social thermoregulation and co-regulation in couples.

Justin Saddlemyer

Justin Saddlemyer is a doctoral student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He received his graduate degree in social psychology from Vrije Universiteit under the supervision of Hans IJzerman in 2011, and he now studies the role visual attention plays in self-control decisions.

Lea Sperlich

Dr. Lea Sperlich earned her Bachelor’s degree in Business Psychology (B.A.) from the Rheinische Fachhochschule in 2013, followed by a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Cologne. In 2018, she began her doctoral studies at the University of Cologne's Department of General Psychology II, completing her PhD in 2024.
Her research focuses primarily on evaluative learning, specifically exploring the underlying cognitive processes involved and the impact of our information ecology on these processes. Additionally, she investigates individual differences in person perception, examining whether some individuals are more prone to categorical thinking than others. She is a co-editor at In-Mind and a member of the magazine's blog team.

Kai Jonas

Kai Jones is working as an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the Social Psychology Program group of the University of Amsterdam. In social cognition, he is doing research on automatic behavior, more specifically, how social categories automatically activate responses directed towards them. Furthermore, he is developing a comprehensive approach to automatic behavior analyzing the interplay of individual characteristics (goals, automatic activation of attributes, attention and behavior) and situational appraisal.

Dana Hofmann

Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan recently received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Arizona, where he was a Flinn Scholar. His research and theoretical interests include terror management theory, and culture and film analysis. He will begin graduate studies in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas in fall 2008.