David Sherman
David Sherman
David Sherman is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests center on health and social psychology and trying to understand how people cope with threats to how they see themselves. Mail: David.Sherman@psych.ucsb.edu
Rinat Meerson
Rinat Meerson
Rinat is Editor for Media Psychology and Head of Social Media at the English version of In-Mind magazine. With a background in psychology from the University of Würzburg, she is currently pursuing her PhD and working as a predoctoral researcher in the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on digital hate, especially on how bystanders perceive and respond to various forms of hate on social media. She also has a keen interest in social psychology, intersectionality, counterspeech, and content moderation. Find her here. rinat.meerson@univie.ac.at
Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo is one of the faces of modern (social) psychology. Perhaps most famous for his Stanford Prison Experiment, he was featured on award-winning series and a frequent guest on TV programs around the world. Zimbardo currently is professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. Known as a creative and innovative researcher, he has produced over 350 professional articles, chapters, magazine and news articles, along with 50 text books.
Sebastian Wallot
Sebastian Wallot
Sebastian Wallot is professor of psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. He received a diploma in psychology from the University of Trier (Germany) in 2008, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Cincinnati, OH (USA) in 2011. His research interested are dynamic systems applications to psychology, particularly the development of time series analysis tools, the role of synchrony in joint action, and reading comprehension.
Adam Fetterman
Adam Fetterman
Adam received his PhD in Social Psychology from North Dakota State University in 2013. His research focuses on how metaphors reflect and affect our thoughts, emotions, behavior, and personality. He has also begun investigating the social and affective processes involved in the ending of, and after the conclusions to, arguments and debates. Beyond these two areas, he is generally interested in the differences in the way in which people think and the science of social and personality psychology. Adam is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Research center in Tübingen, Germany. E-mail: a.fetterman@in-mind.org
Michèle D. Birtel
Michèle D. Birtel
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Michèle Denise Birtel is an Associate Professor of Social Clinical Psychology at the University of Greenwich (UK). Her research seeks to understand and improve societal responses to diversity related to global challenges and their impact on health and wellbeing. Examples include mitigating conflict, addressing social stigma, reducing inequality, and promoting health, in the contexts of migration, infectious diseases, political polarization, women's health and climate change. Her research webpage can be found here.
Roger Giner-Sorolla
Roger Giner-Sorolla
Roger Giner-Sorolla is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1996. His research interests, funded by British and European agencies, cover the role of specific social emotions in such fields as morality, self-control, and intergroup relations. Prof. Giner-Sorolla is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and is the author of a 2012 book from Psychology Press, Judging Passions: Moral Emotions in Persons and Groups. Finally, he is a frequent contributor to the activities of the Center for Open Science, focusing on the role of publishing in encouraging replicable research and replication.
Verena Steiner-Hofbauer
Verena Steiner-Hofbauer
Verena Hofbauer is a post-doctoral researcher at and head of the Research Centre Transitional Psychiatry of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Science, which is concerned with topics regarding the mental health and mental illness of transition-age youth. She is an academic psychologist with a special interest in media psychology in clinical and non-clinical settings.
Joanna Korman
Joanna Korman
Joanna Korman, Sc.M., M.Phil., is a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences. Her research explores how typically developing individuals and people on the autism spectrum solve the most challenging puzzles of social life. As a part of Brown’s New Scientist and undergraduate advising initiatives, she has mentored first-generation and minority undergraduate women aspiring to careers in the sciences.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Emory University. He earned an MA in psychology from the College of William and Mary in 2012. His research interests include personality change, political attitudes, problematic affluence, and happiness.