Who are we?

                 
 

Hans IJzerman - Founding Editor


Dr. 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 earned a Master’s Degree from VU University and a PhD from Utrecht University, both in Social Psychology. He is now an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, focusing on cognitive models for social dynamics and culture - with a focus on grounded cognition (more popularly called embodiment). You can reach his personal homepage here.
E-mail: editor@in-mind.org

Selin Kesebir - Editor-in-Chief


Selin Kesebir completed her bachelor degrees in International Relations and Economics at Koç University in Turkey. She received her M.A. from Northwestern University in cognitive psychology, and her Ph.D from the University of Virginia in social psychology. Currently she is a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. You can reach her personal page here.
E-mail: s.kesebir@in-mind.org

Reine van der Wal - Associate Editor & Coordinator In-Mind Committee


Reine van der Wal completed her Research Masters in Social & Health Psychology at Utrecht University. Currently, she works as a Ph.D. student at Radboud University Nijmegen under the supervision of Dr. Karremans. In her PhD-project, she examines the role of children’s cognitive control capacities in their ability to forgive offending peers.
E-mail: r.vd.wal@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

Namkje Koudenburg - Associate Editor & Coordinator In-Mind Committee


Namkje Koudenburg received both her Bachelor and Master’s degree in Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. At the same university, she is currently working toward her Ph.D. together with Dr. Tom Postmes and Dr. Ernestine Gordijn. Her research mainly concerns group dynamics. Specifically, in her Ph.D. project she examines the effects of conversational flow and silences on social needs and perceptions of consensus. In a different line of research she investigates voters’ perceptions on non-voting.
E-mail: n.koudenburg@in-mind.org

Clare N. Jonas - Associate Editor


Clare 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

Rosanna Guadagno - Associate Editor


Dr. Rosanna Guadagno received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003 where she studied social influence and persuasion and developed a strong interest in the use of online social interaction as a means of social influence. To extend her knowledge of the impact of technology on social interaction, Dr. Guadagno spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied persuasion and non-verbal behavior in immersive virtual environments. Currently, Dr. Guadagno is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama where she directs the Online Social Influence Lab.
E-mail: r.guadagno@in-mind.org

Ishani Banerji - Associate Editor


Ishani Banerji is from India and came to the United States in 2002 to pursue a Bachelor's degree at Denison University. After graduating with a double major in Psychology and Cinema, she completed an M.A. from Wake Forest University. She is now completing a Ph.D. in social psychology at Indiana University under Dr. Eliot Smith. Her research interests are quite eclectic and include the study of emotions, cultural psychology, intergroup processes, social networks, and impression formation.
E-mail: i.banerji@in-mind.org

Daniel Sligte - Associate Editor


Daniel Sligte completed his Bachelor and Research Master degree - major in I/O and minor in Social Psychology - at the University of Amsterdam. For his Master he visited New York University as a research intern. After having worked as a research consultant, he is currently doing a PhD at the department of Industrial/ Organizational Psychology of the University of Amsterdam on creativity.
E-mail: d.sligte@in-mind.org

Lindsay Kalter - Editorial Associate


Lindsay Kalter attended the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She has written for major news outlets including The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun and American Journalism Review. In addition, she reported on science and policy issues related to greenhouse gas emissions for ExchangeMonitor Publications in Washington, D.C. She currently lives in Groningen, the Netherlands.
E-mail: l.kalter@in-mind.org

Michael van den Oudenalder - Coordinator Research Platform


Michael van den Oudenalder recently completed his Master’s Degree at the Utrecht University under the supervision of prof. dr. Kees van den Bos. In their research they examined the cultural difference between the Netherlands and India in their level of perceived power distance. For In-Mind, Michael is coordinating the online research platform, developing novel online research possibilities for researchers.
E-mail: research@in-mind.org

Stephanie Blom - In-Mind Committee - Headlines


Stephanie Blom completed her Bachelors in both Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University. After working as a research assistant at the University Medical Centre Utrecht for one year, she followed the Research Masters in Social & Health Psychology at Utrecht University, during which she worked as a research assistant for dr. G. Semin. Currently, she is working as a PhD student at Utrecht University under the supervision of dr. G. Semin. Her research is focused on facial mimicry, and on specifying the parameters of simulation processes involved in the facial expression of emotions. Please send all your headlines about social psychology to Stephanie!
E-mail: headlines@in-mind.org

Mariko Visserman - In-Mind Committee - Public Relations


Mariko Visserman completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2010 she started the Research Master ‘Behavioural Science’ at the same university. She is currently working on her master project, supervised by Dr. Johan Karremans. In this project she examines relationship protective mechanisms in romantic relationships, especially in dealing with attractive alternatives. For In-Mind she works together with Aafke on In-Mind magazine’s visibility in the media.
E-mail: media@in-mind.org

Aafke van Mourik Broekman- In-Mind Committee - Public Relations


Aafke finished her Bachelor's degree in Communication and is currently doing her Master's in Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. Under supervision of Namkje Koudenburg she is working on her master thesis. This research is on the effects of speech coordination on group collaboration and entitativity.For In-Mind she works together with Mariko on In-Mind magazine’s visibility in the media.
E-mail: media@in-mind.org

Wim Pouw - In-Mind Committee - Book Reviews


Wim Pouw (Netherlands) completed his Bachelor degree in Social Psychology at VU University Amsterdam and is currently completing the Research Masters in Social Psychology at VU University Amsterdam. Next year he will pursue a Master degree in Theoretical Psychology with embodied cognition as his main research interest whilst doing experimental research on the same topic. As a book reviewer for In-Mind, Wim hopes to enthuse people to read new books as well as “the classics” central to Social Psychology.
E-mail: bibliography@in-mind.org

Lotte van der Zanden - In-Mind Committee - Community Manager


Lotte van der Zanden completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2010, she started with the research master Behavioural Science at the same university. She is currently working on her master thesis, supervised by Rob Holland and Johan Karremans. Her main research interest is facilitation of behavior change using implementation intentions. For In-Mind, she will assist in updating the website and she will represent the magazine online using social media.
E-mail: online@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 and coordinates the In-Mind quiz. 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

Jason A. Cantone - Quiz Team


Jason 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.

Kasey van Tyne - Quiz Team


Kasey Van Tyne is a doctoral student in the Social Psychology Program at the University of Chicago. She earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2010 from Smith College in Northampton, MA. While at Smith she worked with Byron L. Zamboanga examining adolescent and young adult alcohol use. She transitioned from studying developmental psychology to social psychology in graduate school, and her research interests fall broadly in the domains of attitudes, identity, and sustainability. Currently, she is working with Kimberly Morrison exploring how individuals respond to threats to their environmental identity.

Justin Cheng - Quiz Team


Justin Cheng earned his bachelors degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he worked in several laboratories including those of Neal Roese and Chi-yue Chiu, bestowing upon him a profound interest in all things social psychology. He is currently a doctoral student under Victor Ottati at the Loyola University Chicago. His research goal is to explore the complex networks of sociocultural and cognitive processes underlying peoples’ appraisal of social, cultural, and political systems. He enthusiastically embraces the mission of bringing the lessons of social psychology to those outside of traditional academic settings.

Daniel Sude - Quiz Team


Daniel Sude completed his Bachelor's degree in social anthropology at Dartmouth College in 2007. He is currently completing a Master's in Social Psychology and the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, where he studies under Dr. Kimberly Morrison. At the University of Chicago, he studies epistemic motivations and their relationship to morality and political ideology.

René Kopietz - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind German

Rene Kopietz
Dr. René Kopietz 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 Dr. 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

Tomás Palma - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Portuguese

Tomás Palma Tomás Palma did his training in Psychology at ISPA, Lisbon, in the area of Organizational and Social Psychology. After receiving my Master Degree in the end of 2007, he worked as a research assistant for Leonel Garcia-Marques and his Social Cognition team (SOCAS). Currently he is working as a PhD student at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, and at the University of Utrecht. His research is supervised by Margarida Garrido and Gün Semin, and is mainly focused on exploring the relation between the areas of person memory and grounded cognition, namely in understanding whether (and how) memory processes (e.g., encoding and retrieval) in impression formation are constrained (or not) by the social context.
E-mail: t.palma@in-mind.org

Rui Soares Costa - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Portuguese

Rui Soares Costa Dr. Rui Soares Costa received his PhD in December 2009 from ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute). His research work was conducted between ISCTE, the University of Lisbon and the University of California, Davis, where he has been working with Jeff Sherman. He is broadly interested in social cognition, particularly the question of how people process information about social targets in the domain of impression formation. His research interests are primarily focused on memory processes. His current research is investigating the interplay between person memory and memory for serial order (from human memory). More specifically, Rui is concerned with the question of how order information is represented and retrieved in person perception. At the present time, he is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lisbon and Princeton University, working with Leonel Garcia-Marques and Alexander Todorov. His post-doc involves expanding this research program into the social cognitive neuroscience arena.
Personal website: www.rui-s-costa.com
In-Mind_Portuguese: pt.in-mind.org
E-mail: r.costa@in-mind.org



Giulio Boccato - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Italian

Giulio Boccato Dr. Giulio Boccato graduated from the University of Padova in Social and Organizational Psychology. He received his PhD in Psychology from the
Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. He is currently an assistant
professor in Social Psychology at the University of Bergamo. His research
mainly focuses on intergroup relations, particularly in the interplay
between categorization and de-humanization. Guilio is the editor-in-chief of In-Mind Italy, which will soon be launched!
E-mail: g.boccato@in-mind.org

Luca Andrighetto - Editor-in-Chief In-Mind Italian

Luca Andrighetto Dr. Luca Andrighetto received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Padova in 2008. He is now a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In his post-doc project he is examining the psychological inhibitors of intergroup dehumanization, especially within conflicting contexts. Currently, he is also focusing on how perception of being discriminated affect people’s interactions with out-group members. Luca is the other editor-in-chief of In-Mind Italy, which will soon be launched!
E-mail: l.andrighetto@in-mind.org