EASP Summer School 2024

Hans Alves is a Professor of Social Cognition at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Hans is interested in how people come to like or dislike individuals, groups, or objects and why attitudes, judgments, and decisions are sometimes biased. He applies a cognitive-ecological perspective, emphasizing the role of external information ecology and internal cognitive processes in the formation of evaluative biases. His research was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology.

Moritz Ingendahl is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Cognition Lab at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Moritz studies the cognitive processes underlying attitude change, judgment, and decision making in social, digital, and consumer contexts. His research falls within the areas of social, cognitive, personality, and consumer psychology. His methodological focus is on experimental and correlative methods and statistical modeling.

Ruthie Pliskin is an Assistant Professor of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology at Leiden University. Her central areas of interest are intergroup relations and conflict, emotions and their regulation, and political psychology more broadly, with a focus on ideology. She is also interested in the psychology of social change and collective action, as well as psychological approaches to overcoming barriers to intergroup conflict resolution. Alongside her research, she co-coordinates the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations track in the Dutch national graduate school in social psychology (the KLI). She is Associate Editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology and co-editor of the special issue of Political Psychology: "Crowdsourcing the Next Generation of Ideas." http://www.ruthiepliskin.com/

Islam Borinca is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Groningen and serves as a visiting scholar/Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. Focusing on intergroup relations, conflict, and resolution, his research delves into various subjects such as prejudice, social norms, assistance, intergroup contact, group-based emotions, empathy, dehumanization, meta-dehumanization, intergroup apologies, and trauma. Islam is currently co-editing a special issue centered on "Social Norms and Peace" for the Journal of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Moreover, he holds the role of Associate Editor for the Journal Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology & Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy, in addition to serving as a consulting Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Dr Maja Kutlača (she/her) is a social psychologist with a passion for social change, collective action, and music.  She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Durham University, UK. Maja’s work revolves around the topics of collective action and allyship with a focus on the role of moral beliefs. Together with Dr Helena Radke and Dr Melis Uluğ , Maja helps coordinate the Collective Action Network.  

Sole is a Full Professor of Social Psychology. Her research so far has focused on the study of resistance and confrontation processes in unequal intergroup relations, as well as the study of sexism and stereotyping. In her current research, she focuses on the analysis of cooperative intergroup relations (alliances) from the perspective of advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Together with Ana Urbiola, she coordinates the Psychology of Social Change Laboratory at the University of Granada (Spain). 

Cameron Brick is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences (20%). His social psychological research focuses on pro-environmental behavior. He uses surveys and experiments to descriptively map systems, and to predict behavior from thoughts, identities, personalities, and social context. He also studies consumer and household decisions from plastics to fast fashion, and communication effectiveness focused on the comprehension of policy options. https://www.cameronbrick.com/

Dr. Karlijn van den Broek is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Psychology at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Her research focuses on people's understanding of the complexity of environmental problems (mental models) and how this understanding influences decision-making and pro-environmental behaviour.

Yasin Koc (he, him) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. His research aims to achieve two major goals: 1) to improve the status of the minoritized groups, 2) to foster positive intergroup relations to achieve higher well-being for all members of society. Yasin has written and published work in top social psychology journals using experimental, correlational, qualitative, and ethnographic methods. He was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2022. He is currently an associate editor at the British Journal of Social Psychology. He collaborates with amazing colleagues across the world and tries to build a cooperative and supportive work environment for his students within his lab: www.kocsocialidentitieslab.com 

Jenny Veldman is an Assistant Professor in Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research is in the domain of social identity, stigma, and educational/organizational inequality. Using a combination of methods (e.g., longitudinal, experience sampling, experimental, and person-centered), her primary research examines how members of underrepresented groups navigate majority-group contexts and cope with the challenges they face in work and education (e.g., women in engineering or the military, students from lower SES backgrounds in higher education).

Ivan Ropovik has long-term research interests in various aspects of the functioning, integrity and robustness of empirical evidence in the social and behavioural sciences. In addition to meta-research, he is interested in areas of research methodology, conceptual issues in psychometrics, quantitative inference, and the synthesis of empirical evidence. He has also published a number of applied research studies, particularly in the fields of psychology and education, has been the principal investigator of several research projects, and is a member of several international scientific networks.

Dr. Sharon Coen is a Reader/Associate Professor in Media Psychology at the University of Salford. Dr. Coen's research primarily focuses on media communication, journalism, and new media, and their role in shaping political and social issues. She has a keen interest in applying media psychology to promote action aimed at minimizing the impact of climate change and addressing the climate emergency. In addition, she has a keen interest in research integrity and open science. As such, she is the Local Network Lead of the UK Reproducibility Network at Salford University, and is a UKRN representative in CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment)'s Reforming Academic Career Assessment working group.

Anna Kende is a professor of social psychology at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. In most of her research she investigates the psychological underpinnings of social change both in the area of prejudice reduction and engagement in social and political movements. She has participated and coordinated several international research projects funded by the EU, national and international organizations, mostly concerning the situation of disadvantaged groups, and Roma people in particular. 

Barbara Lášticová is a social psychologist and director of the Institute for Research in Social Communication. Her main areas of interest include constructions of social identities in various contexts (European integration, transnational migration), intergroup relations, and collective action. I teach political psychology at the Comenius University in Bratislava and qualitative research at the Masaryk University in Brno. I graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava (M. A. 2000, Ph.D. 2007) and Université René Descartes-Paris 5 (DEA de psychologie sociale 2001). I co-edited the volumes "The Psychology of Politically Unstable Societies" (Routledge, 2024, with Anna Kende), Politics of Collective Memory: Cultural Patterns of Commemorative Practices in Post-War Europe (Lit, 2008) and co-authored the book Constructing Slovakness in Public Space (SAV, 2009). 

Jozef Bavoľár is an associate professor of psychology at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia. His research focuses on individual differences in decision-making, mainly decision-making styles, decision-making competence, indecisiveness, and the intolerance of uncertainty. He studies mainly their associations with real-life decision outcomes, goal-striving, and mental health.

Pavol Kačmár, Ph.D., works at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice. His research covers various topics, such as goal-directed behaviour, action crisis, and time perspective. Pavol teaches cognitive and organizational psychology, but he is also interested in statistics and open science-related topics. He is the coauthor of textbooks on basic and advanced statistical methods, as well as several articles and monographs that explore diverse research areas. Last but not least, Pavol has participated in several large-scale collaborations, and he is eager to share and discuss the challenges, perils, but also the opportunities and promises, of the wonderful journey called collaboration.