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Magazine Staff
Hans IJzerman - Editor-in-Chief
Hans IJzerman, the Founding Editor of In-Mind Magazine, received his Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Saint Vincent College in the United States. Once he returned to the Netherlands, he pursued his Master’s Degree at VU University and his PhD at Utrecht University, both in Social Psychology. He is now an assistant professor at VU University, Amsterdam, focusing on social dynamics and culture.
E-mail: editor@in-mind.org
Selin Kesebir - Editor-in-Chief
Selin Kesebir received her BA degrees in International Relations and Economics at Koç University in Turkey. In 2004, she received an M.A. from Northwestern University in Cognitive Psychology. Currently she is a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at University of Virginia, working on different aspects of human morality with Jon Haidt.
E-mail: s.kesebir@in-mind.org
Romee Houben - Director of Public Relations
Romee completed her bachelor degrees in Social and Clinical Psychology at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). After finishing her master degree in clinical psychology at this university in 2009, she started as a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She currently does research in the ontogenetic background of the effects of temperature on social interaction.
E-mail: r.houben@in-mind.org
Suzanne van Gils - Associate Editor
Suzanne van Gils (Netherlands) completed her Bachelor and Master’s degree in social psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her main research interests are power, leadership and followership, interpersonal processes and interdependence. Suzanne is currently a PhD student at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where she concentrates on leader-follower reciprocal relationships under supervision of Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Dr. Daan van Knippenberg. As a member of In-Mind, Suzanne hopes to enrich the knowledge of the general public with findings from psychological research.
E-mail: s.van.gils@in-mind.org
Ashley Waggoner - Associate Editor
Ashley Waggoner received her B.S. from the University of Toronto in 2006, where she worked with Dr. William Cunningham. Currently she is working toward her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Indiana University, where she works with Dr. Eliot Smith. She has a wide-range of research interests, which generally involve examining the influence of specific social contextual factors on our thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and impressions of other people. Some current lines of research include examining the role of social context in implicit emotion priming, and investigating the role of gossip (and other dynamic processes) in person perception.
E-mail: a.waggoner@in-mind.org
Tila Pronk - Associate Editor
Tila Pronk (Netherlands) is currently a Ph. D. student at Radboud University Nijmegen. She works under the supervision of Dr. Karremans, where she studies forgiveness in close relationships. Ms. Pronk obtained both her bachelor’s degree as well as her master’s degree from VU University in Amsterdam.
E-mail: t.pronk@in-mind.org
Clare N. Jonas - Associate Editor
Clare N. Jonas heirs from the United Kingdom, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Warwick University. She pursued a Master's Degree in Neuroscience at VU University in Amsterdam, and has recently commenced a Ph. D. Studentship in Sussex. Her area of expertise is in human neuroscience, where she is particularly interested in synaesthesia, consciousness, and vision.
E-mail: c.jonas@in-mind.org
Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker - Associate Editor
Randi is currently at Ohio State University, where she is working towards her Ph.D. in psychology. She received her B.A. in psychology and communication from Monmouth College, in Illinois, and her M.A. in psychology at Ohio State University. Her research examines the experience of engagement, or immersion in a present activity, and moderators of the relationship between effort and engagement.
E-mail: r.shedlosky@in-mind.org
Pelin Kesebir - Facebook Quiz Coordinator
Pelin Kesebir received her B.A. degree in International Relations and Psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs with Tom Pyszczynski. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores different aspects of existential human motivation and its implications for individual and societal well-being.
E-mail: p.kesebir@in-mind.org
Jason A. Cantone - Quiz Team
Jason A. Cantone completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an honors thesis advised by Dr. Neal Roese. He is currently in a joint J.D./Ph.D. program in Law and Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the supervision of Dr. Richard Wiener, and intends to finish his J.D. and M.A. in Social Psychology in May 2008. His research focuses on counterfactual thinking, social cognition as related to juror decision making, Title VII discrimination in workplace settings (religious and sexual harassment), and public policy decision making processes. All of his work seeks to bridge the gap between social psychological literature and the workings of the American judicial and/or legislative system. Jason is part of the In-Mind Facebook Quiz Team.
E-mail: j.cantone@in-mind.org
Ellie Shockley - Quiz Team
Elizabeth Shockley is currently a doctoral student under Penny Visser in the Social Psychology Program at the University of Chicago. While earning her B.S. in Psychology from Duke University, she worked in several social psychology labs. For two years following graduation, she worked as a research coordinator in a clinical psychology lab. At Chicago she studies political psychology, and her research interests include political ideology and political participation. You can find her personal page here.
E-mail: e.shockley@in-mind.org
Lori Rosenthal - Quiz Team
Lori Rosenthal received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Applied Social/Personality Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and her B.A., with high honors in Psychology from Brandeis University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Lasell College in Newton, MA where she teaches a variety of courses including Group Dynamics, Child Development, Introduction to Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Consumer Behavior. She also serves as the Connected Learning Coordinator encouraging faculty and students to make apply academic knowledge to real-world issues and behaviors. Her research focuses on the impact of emotion on cognitive processes both from a theoretical standpoint as well as applications in person perception, health communication, and persuasion. Some of her recent work involves an investigation into the persuasive impact of pro-anorexia websites.
E-mail: l.rosenthal@in-mind.org
Malgorzata Goclowska - Quiz Team & Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Polish
Malgorzata Goclowska (shortly Gosia) completed a Master's Degree in Psychology at the University of Warsaw. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Kent in Canterbury, in the research group of Richard Crisp. Her research is testing the idea that exposure to diversity and perception of surprising social category combinations (i.e. of people who are counter-stereotypical) can influence creativity. Apart from diversity and social psychology of creativity, she is also interested in the broader fields of intergroup relations and political psychology. Having some background experience in journalism, she is eager to contribute to a broader understanding of psychology and thinks that scientists should communicate their research to the general public. She is also working for Roeland – an organization from Belgium promoting language skills in youths, and has a keen interest in landscape photography. She currently also serves as the Editor-in-chief for In-Mind Poland.
E-mail: m.goclowska@in-mind.org
René Kopietz - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind German
René received his "Psychologie-Diplom" (German equivalent to a Master's degree) in March, 2005 at the University of Cologne, Germany. Since then he has worked investigating audience-tuning effects on memory at Bielefeld University and at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. René received his PhD in social psychology in May 2009 from Bielefeld University and is now a Teaching Fellow at University College London. As of recent, René - together with Malte Friese - has also taken up the challenge to launch the German version of In-Mind! For more about René and his work visit his personal website.
E-mail: r.kopietz@in-mind.org
Malte Friese - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind German
Malte Friese studied psychology with a focus on social psychology in Trier (Germany) and Heidelberg (Germany). He received his Diploma (equivalent to Masters Degree) in 2003. After a year of traveling he started working as a PhD student in the department of Social and Economic Psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He received his degree in 2008 for his dissertation on moderators of the predictive validity of implicit measures. Since then Malte is working as an Assistant Professor equivalent in research and teaching in Basel. His main research interests cover self-control and self-regulation, implicit social cognition, and consumer psychology.
E-mail: m.friese@in-mind.org
Annemarie Wennekers - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Dutch
Annemarie Wennekers received both her Bachelor and Master degree in Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). She also completed a Master’s Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where she worked on her thesis research in the Stereotyping and Prejudice Laboratory of Joshua Correll. Currently, she is working as a Ph.D. student at the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she studies implicit forms of prejudice. Her supervisors on the project are Rob Holland, Daniël Wigboldus, and Ad van Knippenberg.
E-mail: a.wennekers@in-mind.org