Dr. Emily Towner is a postdoc in cognitive neuroscience at Caltech. Her research focuses on adolescence and the brain. Her interests include loneliness, anxiety, mental health, and social media. 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»
Casper Hesp is a PhD candidate in Social Computational Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. His research aims to model and understand how social life develops in individuals and over generations, and going from an understanding of the emotional basis of social life to modeling culture. More»
Samantha Waite is a PACFA-accredited psychotherapist, certified practicing counsellor, and international speaker on death literacy. She is the founder of Taboo Education, an independent business based in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to improving how medical professionals approach death, dying, and end-of-life care. Taboo Education provides psychological education, consultation, and resources to reduce death anxiety and challenge the “death is a failure” mindset often found in clinical environments. She also has a YouTube channel, Taboo Education - Let's Talk Death (@TabooEducation). More»
Dr. Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in the development of connectivity in the brain, specifically in how this process is controlled by genes and how mutations in such genes affect the connectivity of neuronal circuits, influence behavior and perception and contribute to disease. His latest book is Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. More»
Dr. Séamus Power is an Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology at the University of Copenhagen. He is a visiting senior fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been a visiting associate professor at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Inequality: A View from Manywheres. More»
Dr. Charmaine Borg is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen. She is a certified psycho-sexologist, and an expert in clinical and experimental psychology. Her interests include disgust, sexual arousal, disgust and psychopathology, and psychological sexual dysfunctions. More»
Amy Baldwin is co-host of the Shameless Sex podcast (@ShamelessSexPodcast), a sex educator and sex and relationship coach trained in both the Somatica and Hakomi Methods. Amy is also the lead educator for überlube, co-owner of a mother-daughter owned online pleasure boutique called Pure Pleasure Shop, and was voted Sexpert of the Year within the pleasure products industry. She is the author (together with April Lampert) of Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You've Been Waiting For. More»
Dr. Harry Reis is Dean’s Professor in Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. Dr. Reis' research interests involve social interaction and close relationships. Dr. Reis studies the factors that influence the quantity and closeness of social interaction, and the consequences of different patterns of socializing for health and psychological well-being. He is the author (together with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky) of How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most. More»
Dr. Wataru Toyokawa is Unit Leader at the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) Collaboration Unit at RIKEN CBS, Tokyo, and Visiting Scientist at Center for Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Constance. His research focuses on the computational underpinnings and eco-evolutionary implications of human social learning and their relationships with group decision-making and collective behavior. Using computational modelling and Bayesian statistical methods, coupled with online real-time behavioral experimentation, he is quantitatively approaching human social behavior and group dynamics. He also uses mathematical models to study population dynamics and evolutionary games. More»
