Editorial Board

Mark Assink ✉️, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Mark Assink, Assistant Professor of Forensic Child and Youth Care at the UvA, conducts clinically driven research on juvenile delinquency and child abuse. He improves clinical practice by studying risk factors and developing risk assessment tools (like the Y-ACNAT-NO and ARIJ). Furthermore, he has substantial expertise in meta-analytic techniques, including three-level meta-analysis, and investigates health disparities among sexual minorities, focusing on intraminority stress

Stephen Baffour Adjei ✉️, University of Oslo & Akenten Appiah-Menka University, Ghana [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Stephen Baffour Adjei, an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo (Norway) and AAMUSTED (Ghana), applies cultural psychological theories and decolonial perspectives to understand the relationship among culture, context and psychological processes. His core focus is critical/indigenous African psychology and the cultural grounding of intimate partner violence, including discursive analyses of masculinity and spousal abuse in Ghana. He also researches the psychological experiences of people with disabilities. Key achievements include editorial roles, such as Associate Editor at Psychological Science.

Andrea Baronchelli ✉️, University of London, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Andrea Baronchelli is a Professor of Complexity Science at City St George’s, University of London, and a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. His research investigates how humans and artificial agents behave in decentralized socio-technical systems. He studies how coordination emerges in networks—for example, through shared norms—and how technologies like blockchain, social media, and AI are changing public debate, governance, and decision-making. His methods include analyzing large datasets, building mathematical models, and running experiments with both humans and AI agents. He previously led the Token Economy theme at The Alan Turing Institute.

Marc G. Berman ✉️, University of Chicago, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Marc Berman, Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Chicago, directs the Environmental Neuroscience Lab. His core research investigates how the physical environment affects the brain and behavior. Utilizing brain imaging and computational neuroscience, his findings show that brief interactions with natural environments (such as park walks) can significantly improve memory and attention by 20 percent. His work further links efficient brain networks to enhanced self-control.

Sarah J Brown ✉️, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Sarah J. Brown, an Adjunct Professor at USC, Australia, specializes in Forensic Psychology and preventing sexual aggression. Here, core research quantifies the role of empathy in forensic populations and therapeutic outcomes. Major contributions include extensive work on treating sex offenders, analyzing cognitive distortions in child abuse, and reviewing factors associated with desistance from violence.

Stephanie Burnett Heyes ✉️, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Stephanie Burnett Heyes is a developmental psychologist at the University of Birmingham with expertise in adolescent cognitive, social, and emotional development and youth mental health and wellbeing. Contributions include work on adolescent risk-seeking, affect transmission in social networks, and the function of mental imagery in clinical psychopathology. She was awarded the British Neuroscience Association PhD Award.

Jacqueline M. Chen ✉️, University of Utah, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Jacqueline M. Chen, an Associate Professor at the University of Utah, specializes in intergroup relations, social cognition, and cultural psychology. Her core research analyzes the categorization and impression formation of multiracial individuals. A key contribution showed that same-sex marriage legalization is associated with reduced implicit and explicit antigay bias. Her work also explores cultural variation in social support and gendered power dynamics.

Ioana Alina Cristea ✉️, University of Padova, Italy [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Ioana Alina Cristea is a clinical psychologist specializing in meta-research. This work applies methods, such as meta-analyses, to clinically important questions, such as how to best treat or prevent mental disorders in adults and children or how to improve psychotherapies. Her research also looks at how randomized trials are planned and reported across disciplines, investigates the role of financial conflicts of interest and other systematic biases and analyses retraction to identify signals of data fabrication. Currently, she leads the ERC-funded DECOMPOSE project, aimed at uncovering the active ingredients of psychological treatments. She previously served as a Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar at Stanford University.

Matthew Davis ✉️, Leeds University Business School, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Matthew C. Davis, an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, specializes in Organizational Psychology and Socio-Technical Systems. His research primarily investigates hybrid working, office design, and how people interact with their environments. A second major interest is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), including promoting pro-environmental behavior and addressing modern slavery in supply chains. He has won multiple awards, notably the 2010 US Academy of Management Making Connections Award.

Omid V. Ebrahimi ✉️, University of Oxford, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Omid V. Ebrahimi is clinical psychologist and a research fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, where he serves as the Principal Investigator of the Oxford EDGE Lab. He studies the events and processes underlying the onset and persistence of common mental disorders, focusing on how large-scale societal crises (e.g., infectious disease outbreaks, economic recessions) accelerate their emergence. He combines complex dynamical systems and advanced statistical approaches with big data to identify how individuals transition from health to disorder states. He currently leads major projects including The CIPA Study, following over 5 million individuals across two decades to understand resilience and disorder transitions.

Eirini Flouri ✉️, University College London, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Eirini Flouri is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research agenda focuses on testing complex models of the effect of cumulative contextual risk on child psychopathology. A core contribution is advancing theory on how risk impacts child development and how resilience can be promoted. Her significant findings detail the crucial role of father involvement in children’s mental health and educational outcomes and the effect of urban green space on resilience.

Carlo Garofalo ✉️, University of Perugia, Italy [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Carlo Garofalo is an Associate Professor at the University of Perugia (Italy), specializing in Clinical and Forensic Psychopathology from a developmental and psychodynamic perspective. His core work has been focused on emotion regulation, antisocial personality and psychopathy, aggression and violent behavior in forensic and community samples. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals across clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and assessment. He is founding member and co-chair of the section for the study of aggression and antisociality for the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and is board member of the National Board of Professional Psychology for the Region Umbria.

Amit Goldenberg ✉️, Harvard Business School, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Amit Goldenberg, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, specializes in Emotion, Psychology, and Computational Social Science. His research centers on collective emotions—investigating what makes people emotional in social and group contexts—and how those emotions can be regulated or changed. Major contributions include studying digital emotion contagion, advancing the process model of group-based emotion, and applying emotion regulation techniques to intergroup conflict resolution. He also analyzes the perception of human versus AI-generated empathy.

Hudson Golino ✉️, University of Virginia, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Hudson Golino, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, specializes in Quantitative Psychology and Network Science. His core research aims to quantify latent dimensions in multivariate data by utilizing network science, information theory, and generative AI. One of his major contribution is in Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA), a general framework for dimensionality analysis, reduction, and item quality. His work integrates AI, Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Network Science, and Information theory to understand how humans and machines represent information, as well as to address psychometric problems. He received the Sanofi Innovation in Medical Services award in 2015, the 2024/25 University of Virginia Research Award, and served at the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association in 2025. He has many widely used R packages, and has been publishing in major quantitative and applied journals.

Gordon Hodson ✉️, Brock University, Canada [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Gordon Hodson, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Brock University, focuses his expertise on the foundations of intergroup bias, examining how individual differences and processes like dehumanization predict prejudice and discrimination. His critical work includes analyzing speciesism and developing theories of effective intergroup contact. Hodson held the Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence (2015-2018) and has served as Editor-in-Chief at the European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP).

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler ✉️, Harvard University, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler is the John L. Loeb Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His core research investigates how stigma affects the mental and physical health of marginalized populations, particularly sexual and gender minorities. He is known for his work on “structural stigma,” a concept he helped develop, which examines how societal-level conditions, institutional policies (e.g., anti-bullying laws or same-sex marriage bans), and cultural norms create health disparities. His multidisciplinary research links these macro-social factors to adverse health outcomes, from psychiatric disorders to premature mortality.

Jolanda Jetten ✉️, University of Queensland, Australia [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Jolanda Jetten, a Professor at the University of Queensland, is highly influential in Social Identity research. Her primary focus explores how group processes impact health and well-being, developing the “social cure” framework, which posits that group memberships reduce depression and stress. Additionally, she investigates socio-political phenomena, analyzing the psychology of intergroup bias, economic inequality, and the rise of populism.

Pelin Kesebir ✉️, University of Wisconsin – Madison, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Social psychologist Pelin Kesebir, based at the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in the nexus of positive and existential psychology. Professor Kesebir investigates the two-way relationship between virtue and happiness, specifically quantifying how self-transcendent traits, such as humility, function as a buffer against death anxiety. Her key contributions include analyzing the cultural decline of moral character and the ongoing development of implicit measures for virtues to assess the efficacy of well-being interventions.

Sander van der Linden ✉️, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge, is a highly cited expert in the field of judgment and decision-making. His seminal work centers on leveraging “psychological inoculation” to build public resistance against the spread of misinformation and fake news, particularly concerning climate change and public health. He is globally recognized for this research, which includes developing intervention games like Bad News and winning multiple awards for his book, FOOLPROOF.

Marta Marchlewska ✉️, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Marta Marchlewska is an associate professor and Head of the Political Cognition Lab at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Specializing in Social and Political Psychology, she utilizes psychometrics to study how psychological threat influences political perception. Her core contribution lies in quantifying the impact of personality variables, especially narcissism and in-group identification (collective narcissism), on political outcomes like support for populist policy and the endorsement of conspiracy theories.

Gary Marcus ✉️, New York University, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Gary Marcus is a scientist, author, entrepreneur, and a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University and the founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber). He is best known as a prominent critic of the hype surrounding modern AI, particularly deep learning and large language models (LLMs). His core argument is that these systems are “approximations to language use rather than language understanding” and lack the symbolic reasoning necessary for true, trustworthy intelligence. He advocates for a hybrid, neuro-symbolic approach that combines the strengths of neural networks with classical, logic-based AI. His earlier research focused on cognitive science and human language development.

Batja Mesquita ✉️, University of Leuven, Belgium [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Batja Mesquita is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology. Her research focuses on how emotions and emotion regulation are shaped by group and cultural morality. She proposes that emotions are key processes of social cohesion and embodiments of this morality. Her work spans topics including the cultural shaping of emotions, the spreading of emotions in groups, and emotional acculturation, developing original theories on how “emotional fit” or misfit impacts well-being and social outcomes. She is the author of the book Between us: How cultures create emotions and is a Member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.

Taciano L. Milfont ✉️, University of Waikato, New Zealand [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Professor Taciano L. Milfont, an expert in Environmental Psychology based at the University of Waikato, applies social and behavioral science to address critical societal issues, particularly environmental problems and climate action. His influential contributions include developing widely used psychometric measures of environmental attitudes and analyzing how concepts like human values predict pro-environmental behavior across cultures. He previously served as Associate Editor for the field’s two leading journals, Environment and Behavior and the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and recently led Behavioral Insights at the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment.

Mohsen Mosleh ✉️, University of Oxford, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Mohsen Mosleh is an Associate Professor in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is also a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work is at the intersection of computational social science and cognitive psychology. He studies how misinformation and disinformation spread on social media and how social ties are formed online. His research uses large-scale digital field experiments to understand these social dynamics and test interventions to combat online harm.

Sylvia Perry ✉️, Northwestern University, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Sylvia P. Perry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, where she directs the Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes (SCIP) Lab. Her research is situated at the intersection of social, developmental, and health psychology. She investigates how racial bias awareness develops and what implications this awareness has for prejudice reduction, intergroup relations, and health disparities. A primary focus of her work is on parental racial socialization, examining how White parents’ conversations about race can shape their children’s racial attitudes and reduce pro-White biases. She also studies how educational environments, such as medical schools, shape medical trainees’ biases and perceptions of stigmatized groups.

Helen Pluut ✉️, Leiden University, The Netherlands [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Helen Pluut, an Associate Professor at Leiden University, specializes in Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Her research critically investigates the work-family interface and its impact on employee well-being. She explores the function of social support and group dynamics in mitigating workplace stress. A key contribution is her interdisciplinary work in Empirical Legal Studies (ELS), where she is a project leader merging behavioral science with legal scholarship.

Tatiana V. Ryba ✉️, University of Jyväskylä, Finland [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Tatiana V. Ryba, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, is an internationally recognized scholar whose work has shaped the field of cultural sport psychology. Her research examines athlete life courses, dual career pathways, and transnational migration, exposing how resilience and vulnerability emerge through social, cultural, and institutional inequalities. Advancing thinking with culture and immanent cultural praxis, she reimagines how ethically inclusive and socially just transformations can become in sport. Dr Ryba is a two-term Vice President and Fellow of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP), a Fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. She has led the authorship of ISSP’s influential position stands on culturally competent practice, transnational mobility and acculturation, and cultural praxis.  

David A. Sbarra ✉️, University of Arizona, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

David Sbarra, Professor at University of Arizona, the EOS Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Psychology, directs the Laboratory for Social Connectedness & Health (LSCH). His expertise lies in investigating the bidirectional relationship between social relationships, stress, and health. Sbarra is a leading scholar on the psychological and biological sequelae of divorce and marital separation, and champions the use of genetically-informed research, like Mendelian Randomization, to analyze factors such as loneliness and depression.

Alexander F. Schmidt ✉️, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Alexander F. Schmidt, a Professor in Social and Legal Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, concentrates his research on atypical and paraphilic sexual interests, focusing specifically on pedophilia and risk factors associated with sexual offenses. He is recognized for advancing the use of indirect measures and quantitative psychometric methods in the assessment of sexual interest and delinquency. Dr. Schmidt has also secured external funding for projects aimed at preventing child sexual abuse and is an Associate Editor for Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Robert R. Sinclair ✉️, Clemson University, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Professor Robert Sinclair, an expert in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Clemson University, is a pioneering figure in Occupational Health Psychology (OHP). His core research quantifies how economic stressors (like debt and job insecurity) affect worker health, and how to establish organizational climates that enhance safety and sustainability. A major academic contribution includes founding the journal Occupational Health Science. Sinclair is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Cornelia Sindermann , Charlotte Fresenius Hochschule – University of Psychology, Germany [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Cornelia Sindermann centers her work on the intersection of Individual Differences, Digital Media, and Political Psychology. She investigates how individual personality differences (e.g., Big Five traits) govern the response to technology and how interactions between individuals and technologies jointly influence politically relevant views and behaviors. Her major contributions involve analyzing the susceptibility to phenomena like fake political news, “filter bubbles,” and polarization.

Tilmann von Soest ✉️, University of Oslo, Norway [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Tilmann von Soest, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo, directs the PROMENTA Research Center. He is an expert in developmental and public health psychology, analyzing how social inequality and marginalization shape outcomes during adolescence and young adulthood. His core research quantifies the development of traits like self-esteem and loneliness using longitudinal data analysis. He is also noted for co-founding Nabolagshelse.no, a digital platform for geographic public health analytics.

Anit Somech ✉️, University of Haifa, Israel [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Anit Somech, an organizational psychologist and full Professor at the University of Haifa, focuses her research on work motivation and management from a situational and multilevel perspective. Her primary interests include Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), the dynamics of teamwork (including creativity, conflict, and innovation), and participative leadership. Her research examines teacher empowerment, OCB, and commitment in schools, alongside the effects of leadership on team innovation and performance.

Thomas Talhelm ✉️, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile]

Thomas Talhelm, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, researches how culture influences thought processes and the origins of these cultural differences. Much of his work focuses on China, where he has spent time as a Fulbright scholar and Princeton in Asia fellow. He is best known for developing the “Rice Theory of Culture,” which proposes that historical differences in rice versus wheat farming can explain modern-day psychological variations, such as degrees of collectivism and individualism. His research often employs large-scale data and real-world observational studies to test these theories.

Daniel Quintana ✉️, University of Oslo, Norway [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Professor Daniel Quintana, affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, investigates biological systems that link psychosocial factors to health. His core focus is on neuroendocrine systems, specifically oxytocin, and the autonomic nervous system (ANS). He utilizes research approaches like intranasal oxytocin trials and large-scale genetics studies. Key contributions include influential meta-analyses on Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and psychiatric disorders, alongside research in meta-science (improving research methods). He is a multiple recipient of the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award (2020–2023).

Erin Westgate ✉️, University of Florida, United States [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Erin Westgate, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, investigates boredom, interest, and the conditions under which people enjoy their own thoughts. She is known for developing the MAC model of boredom, which explains its mechanism and experience. A notable contribution demonstrated that nearly half of participants in one study chose to self-administer electric shocks rather than endure the emotional discomfort of sitting alone with their thoughts. Her research also explores the desire for a “psychologically rich” life.

Belinda Winder ✉️, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Institutional Profile] 

Belinda Winder is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, specializing in sexual offending and the reintegration (desistance) of individuals after prison. She conducts mixed-method research focusing on the service-user voice to inform evidence-based policy and practice. A major contribution is her role as co-founder and Head of Research for the Safer Living Foundation, a charity dedicated to preventing sexual crime and rehabilitating offenders. Her work includes studies into internet sex offender accounts and evaluations of initiatives like Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA).

Leor Zmigrod ✉️, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom [Google Scholar] [Personal Webpage]

Leor Zmigrod, a political psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, investigates the psychological structure of ideological thinking and susceptibility to rigid dogmas. She utilizes cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology to address radicalization. A major contribution is demonstrating that cognitive rigidity/inflexibility predicts extremist attitudes and political partisanship. She is the author of The Ideological Brain.