Dr. Alberto Acerbi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. He is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist with a particular interest in computational science. He is the author of “Tecnopanico. Media digitali, tra ragionevoli cautele e paure ingiustificate” (“Technopanic: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears”). More»
Nicole Karlis is a health and science journalist. Her work has been published in Salon, The New York Times, Marie Claire, and The Bold Italic. She is the author of Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis. More»
Dr. Jason Clarke is Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London. He is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on revealing the psychological and neural processes underlying visual perception, memory, and consciousness. He is the author of Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception. More»
Dr. Ashley Randall is a Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. She studies couples’ interpersonal emotion regulation. Although stressful experiences can have deleterious effects on individual well-being in a variety relationships and settings, romantic partners are in a unique position to regulate each other’s emotions during times of distress. More»
Dr. Dries Bostyn is a social psychologist, statistician and philosopher currently doing a BOF senior postdoctoral fellowship at the Social Psychology Lab at Ghent Unversity. His primary research focus is the study of moral psychology. More»
Dr. Shinobu Kitayama is Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Culture & Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. His research revolves around cultural differences and similarities in a variety of mental processes such as self, emotion and cognition. He has focused on comparing people from Asian countries such as Japan, the Philippines and China with Americans. More»
Dr. Justin Lehmiller is a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute and an internationally recognized sex educator. He conducts research on sexual fantasies, casual sex, and sexual health and has published a sexuality textbook that is used in college classrooms around the world. In addition, he runs a popular blog, Sex and Psychology, and has been published in Playboy, VICE, USA Today, Politico, Men's Health, and New York Magazine. He is the author of Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life. More»
Dr. Vibeke Ottesen is a Norwegian criminologist with an interest in how nature and nurture combined create human behavior. She has a popular science blog – Biosocial - where she comments on news, scientific findings and literature relevant to her subject – more often than not with an evolutionary informed approach to understanding the subject matter. She has held numerous lectures on the benefits of an evolutionary informed approach to understanding the cross-cultural sex and age differences in anti-social and criminal behavior. More»
Dr. Eric Sprankle is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and AASECT-certified sex therapist affiliated with the Minnesota Sexual Health Institute. He is the author of DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation. More»
Dr. William Chopik is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He is a social-personality psychologist interested in how relationships and the people in them change over time and across situations. His research focuses on how factors both inside (biological, hormonal) and outside (social roles, geography) of people influence their approach to social relationships. His work examines phenomena as broad as how relationships and social institutions shape development and as focused as the hormonal mechanisms that underlie love and intimacy. More»
