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Ashley Waggoner Denton

Ashley Waggoner Denton received her PhD in Social Psychology from Indiana University in 2012. Her research focuses on impression formation processes, including the role of gossip in our impressions. She is also broadly interested in the social psychology of learning, examining questions such as 'how do peer attitudes affect student motivation and performance'? Ashley is currently a Lecturer at the University of Toronto, where she also received her bachelor’s degree. You can follow her on Twitter @DrAshleyWD and she can be reached via email at waggonerdenton@psych.utoronto.ca.

Caterina Salvotti

Caterina Salvotti completed her studies in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology (BSc/BA) at Padua University and Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc) at Pauda University (Padua, Italy). Since December 2021, she has been doing her doctorate at the Institute of Psychology, Department of Performance Psychology, German Sport University Cologne. Her PhD topic investigates the effects of breathing on the heartbeat-evoked potential. Twitter/X: @CSalvotti

Camiel Beukeboom

Camiel Beukeboom is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science of the VU University Amsterdam. He conducts research within the area of language use and interpersonal communication in both face to face conversation and computer mediated interaction. Specifically, he focuses on the relation between nonverbal behavior and language use, the causes and consequences of changes in language abstraction, the use of negations, and changes in paralinguistic vocal variables. Mail: cj.beukeboom@fsw.vu.nl

Cendrine Mercier

Cendrine Mercier is an Associate Professor in Education Sciences and Training at the University of Nantes/INSPE and at the Nantes Education Research Center (CREN - UR 2661). She is a clinical psychologist, specializing in the school inclusion of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICT) in learning situations. Her work focuses on evaluating subjective well-being in school settings.

Dennis Fox

Dennis Fox is a former Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His academic essays, largely focused on the intersection of psychology, law, and justice and on mainstream psychology's role in maintaining an unjust status quo, has appeared in journals such as American Psychologist, Law and Human Behavior and Teaching of Psychology. His essays, course materials, blog, and photo galleries are available at www.dennisfox.net.

Jette Völker

Dr. Jette Völker is a postdoctoral researcher in work and organizational psychology at the University of Mannheim (Germany), from where she also received her PhD in 2023. Her research interests include sleep and recovery from work, health and well-being at work, and interpersonal relationships at work.

Joop van der Pligt

Joop van der Pligt is a full professor of Social Psychology. His research focuses on risk perception and the acceptability of risks. Both health-related risks, as well as large scale societal risks recieved considerable attention in his research. Together with Frenk van Harreveld he studied causes and consequences of attitudinal ambivalence. His research also addresses risk communication and its impact on both the acceptability of risk and behavioral change.

Emmylou Sophie Schädler

Emmylou Sophie Schädler is a master's student in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Mannheim, with research interests focusing on stress regulation, emotional and social aspects of (health) behavior. Emmy is passionate about bridging academic research and practical applications, and she strives to make psychological insights more accessible to a broader audience in her current and future work in clinical and social psychology. Find her here.

Brian Meier

Masaki Yuki

  Masaki Yuki, PhD, is a Professor of the Department of Behavioral Science, and the Director of Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, at Hokkaido University, Japan. Taking a socio-ecological perspective, his current research centers around how characteristics of our social environments (such as relational mobility) affects a broad range of individuals’ psychological and behavioral tendencies. These include self-evaluation, happiness, mental health, as well as interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup behaviors.