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Malin Ekelund

Malin works at the University of Gothenburg, currently in a project within environmental psychology utilizing different kinds of social norms as intervention techniques to encourage pro-environmental behaviors. Her main research interests falls within social psychology, specifically stigmatization processes, stereotypes, and prejudices. Previously Malin worked in the communication and advertising industry, mainly as a content strategist.

Tom Postmes

Tom Postmes is professor of Social Psychology. He studies how people influence each other's ideas and behaviour. Even though people in the Western world like to see themselves as independent individuals, we continually conform to fashions, norms and social structures. This is apparent in many different forms of collective behavior: on the stock exchange, at work, during an old-fashioned demonstration or in a modern flashmob organized via Internet. In his research Postmes shows how everyday interactions can lead to such collective behavior.

Sandrine Isoard-Gautheur

Sandrine Isoard-Gautheur is a Maîtresse de Conférences at the Université Grenoble Alpes, affiliated with the Sport and Social Environment Laboratory (EA3742). Her research in social psychology focuses on the phenomenon of athlete burnout in high-level athletes or those ascending to high levels, aiming to identify developmental, environmental, motivational, and emotional factors that influence the emergence of this syndrome. Twitter/X: @IsoardGS

Guido M. van Koningsbruggen

Guido M. van Koningsbruggen is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Social Psychology at Utrecht University. His primary research interest concerns social cognition and (health) behavior change. His current work focuses on social cognitive determinants of successful self-regulation in the domain of eating and dieting behavior. This work involves both fundamental research on cognitive and motivational processes as well as applied studies on changing dieting behavior.

Aïna Chalabaev

Aïna Chalabaev is Full Professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes where she leads the Sport and Social Environment Laboratory. Her research focuses on the psychosocial determinants of participation in physical activity and sports, and notably on the motivation and threat-related processes resulting from stigmatisation. Twitter/X: @achalabae

Nadia Ahmad

Nadia Ahmad received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Kansas in 2005. She currently works at a private firm on media assessment of public opinion. Her research interests center around prosocial motivation, emotion, and behavior, and emotion and attitude formation and change.

Alicia Gilbert

Alicia Gilbert is a research associate and PhD candidate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her studies in Mainz and at the University of Amsterdam. The focus of her research lies in the psychology of digital media use and effects, particularly topics including self-regulation, well-being, and media entertainment. She is active on bluesky and X/Twitter.

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Roman Trötschel

Roman Trötschel is a professor of social and political psychology and the head of the Negotiation Research Group (NRG) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on cognitive processes in negotiations as well as the impact of the negotiation context (e.g., collective bargaining with group representatives) on the negotiation process and the resulting outcomes. Another key area of his research is conflict intervention, including mediation, arbitration, and conciliation.

Shana Cole

Shana Cole is is a social psychology PhD candidate at New York University. Her research broadly explores the ways in which visual perception informs, guides, and serves successful self-regulation. She studies this within a wide variety of domains, including health, culture, relationships, politics, and emotion regulation. Her dissertation work focuses on the role of visual perception in self-control conflicts, detailing visual biases that emerge as people struggle to remain committed to long-term goals in the face of temptation.