Editorial Board
Editorial Board Members work closely with our in-house editors to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies. Our Editorial Board Members are active researchers recognized as experts in their field. They handle manuscripts within their broad areas of expertise, and oversee all aspects of the peer review process from submission to acceptance.
Editorial Board Members
Dr. Nida Ali, BSc, Msc, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
orcid.org/0000-0002-8740-6286
Research areas: Psychoneuroendocrinology, Stress and health, Resilience, Emotion regulation
Dr. Nida Ali is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her primary research objective is to understand the pathway that connects stress to disease (and resilience). She investigates the interactions and crosstalk among the biological (neuroendocrine, autonomic, and immune systems) and psychological (cognitive, emotional) processes that are involved during stress, and their link to health and disease. She uses a multimodal approach, including pharmacological administrations, physiological measurements, behavioral assessments, and self-reports to investigate the effects of stress, in acute, and longitudinal studies. She obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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Dr. John Jamir Benzon Aruta, BSc, MA, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
orcid.org/0000-0003-4155-1063
Research areas: Environmental Psychology; Climate change and mental health nexus; Counseling Psychology
Dr. John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta is an Associate Professor of Psychology at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. His research involves the following areas of research: 1) the application of psychology principles in promoting environmental sustainability, 2) the interface between climate change and mental health in the Global South context, and 3) the mental health of neglected and marginalized populations. Dr. Aruta received awards for his scientific contributions including the Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2023 given by the National Academy of Science and Technology in the Philippines.
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Dr. Shir Atzil, BSc, MA, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
orcid.org/0000-0002-4074-6777
Research areas: Parent-Infant Bonding, Romantic Bonding, Affect, Neural mechanisms, Allostasis
Dr. Shir Atzil is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Bonding Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying human bonding. Combining expertise in neuroscience, biology, and psychology with extensive experience working with parents, infants, and romantic partners, Dr. Atzil investigates the biological foundations of human attachment.
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Dr. Inti A. Brazil, BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Neuropsychology & Rehabilitation Psychology, Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
orcid.org/0000-0001-5824-0902
Research areas: experimental forensic psychology, psychopathy, antisocial personality, reinforcement-based learning, decision-making
My main interest is studying (mal)adaptive behavior and decision-making in relation to psychopathic/antisocial tendencies observed in community and offender samples. To achieve this, I examine and integrate multiple levels of description by combining behavioral methods, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and various data modeling techniques. I am also interested in the development of biopsychology-informed frameworks for capturing individual differences.
Dr. Caroline Charpentier, BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-0738
Research areas: computational psychiatry, decision-making, social learning, social affective neuroscience, belief updating, computational modelling, social cognition, anxiety, autism
Caroline Charpentier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and the Brain and Behavior Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on the behavioral, neural, and computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making, with a particular focus on how individual differences in these processes may carry relevance for psychopathology. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from social neuroscience, behavioral economics and computational psychiatry. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London in 2016 and completed her postdoc at the California Institute of Technology before joining the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2023. Her work is currently funded by a K99/R00 award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Dr. Hu Chuan-Peng, BSc, MA, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-5131
Research areas: self-cognition, drift-diffusion models, meta-science
Chuan-Peng is a Professor at the School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University. His research interest includes meta-science, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, and its applications in self- cognition and mental health. He values equality, diversity, and inclusivity and actively promotes open scholarship both in the Chinese-speaking community and the international community.
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Dr. Lameese Eldesouky, BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-8203
Research areas: emotion regulation, social relationships, individual differences, well-being
Lameese Eldesouky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the American University in Cairo. She received her PhD in Social/Personality Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. Her research focuses on emotion regulation, with a focus on how people choose what strategy to use and the consequences of emotion regulation for emotional well-being, social functioning, and health.
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Dr. Yana Fandakova, Dipl.Psych, PhD
Professor, Department of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trier, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-0359
Research areas: Lifespan Development, Brain Development, Learning, Memory, Cognitive Control
Yana Fandakova is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology at the University of Trier. She obtained her PhD in Psychology from Humboldt University, Berlin, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Research in her laboratory uses an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to elucidate how learning, memory, and cognitive control processes interact in childhood, adolescence and in aging, and how motivational factors influence their developmental trajectories.
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Dr. Hannah Hao, BE, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-3342-9132
Research areas: affective neuroscience, depression, emotion regulation, stress, SES, environmental psychology, human factors
Dr. Yu (Hannah) Hao is a postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Her research is focused on delving into the neural underpinings of dynamic social interactions within a spectrum of diverse groups, which includes socioeconomic status, neurodiversity, and gender diversity. Her primary objective is to reveal the intricate connections between these interactions and mental health outcomes. Employing a range of methodologies, including fMRI, self-reported assessments, physiological measurements, and machine learning, Dr. Hao is dedicated to unraveling the complex interplay between social functioning, emotions, and diverse groups. In addition, she is passionate about exploring the role of emotion regulation, psychological and physiological stress processes, and the broader field of environmental psychology, which delves into the relationship between the environment and human well-being. She obtained her Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
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Prof. Xiaoqing Hu, BSc, MSc, M Education, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China
orcid.org/0000-0001-8112-9700
Research areas: sleep, memory, voluntary forgetting, social cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience.
Dr. Xiaoqing HU is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a Principal Investigator in the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on sleep, memory dynamics and social learning. In particular, he examines how to modify unwanted memories during sleep, and the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying voluntary forgetting. He hopes this research can inform the development of novel memory- and sleep-based interventions to safeguard mental wellbeing and to promote resilience when facing life adversity. He obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Evanston, US.
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Prof. Shao-Min (Sean) Hung, BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
orcid.org/0000-0002-8908-1497
Research areas: Consciousness, Attention, Vision, Aging.
Dr. Shao-Min (Sean) Hung is an Assistant Professor at the Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He completed his undergraduate at the National Taiwan University, PhD at the Duke-National University of Singapore, and postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. His main research interests center around consciousness, attention, and vision. In particular, he is broadly interested many forms of implicit and unconscious processes, as well as how they interact with other perceptual and cognitive processes. His experimental tools include psychophysics, fMRI and gradually extend to EEG, eye-tracking, and other physiological measurements.
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Prof. Saloni Krishnan, MSc, BASLP, PhD
Professor, Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-6466-141X
Research areas: developmental cognitive neuroscience, neurodevelopmental conditions, language
I investigate how language is organised in the developing brain, using behavioural, computational, and MRI techniques. My work has established brain differences in several developmental communication disorders, such as developmental language disorder and stuttering. I was named an APS Rising Star in 2022 and received the BPS Neil O’Connor award in 2021. My work is currently funded by an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award and an MRC New Investigator Research Grant.
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Prof. Mael Lebreton, BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor, Economics of Human Behavior, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
orcid.org/0000-0002-2071-4890
Research areas: decision-making, preferences, beliefs, reinforcement-learning, metacognition, strategic interactions, computational modelling, functional neuroimaging, neuroeconomics.
I am currently an Associated Researcher at the Paris School of Economics. I obtained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Sorbonne Université, Paris, and completed two postdoctoral experiences, at the University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Economics) and at the University of Geneva (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences). My team mixes methods and theories from cognitive (neuro)sciences and behavioral economics to investigates the computational and biological basis of economic behavior (choices, preferences, beliefs). Research projects in my lab usually build on behavioral experiments, computational models and functional neuroimaging.
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Prof. Jixing Li, BA, MA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-5210-6224
Research areas: computational neurolinguistics, speech, semantic processing, syntactic processing, reference processing
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation and the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. My research applies computational models to understand how the human brain represents and computes semantic and syntactic information during language comprehension.
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Prof. Patricia Lockwood, BSc, PhD
Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-7195-9559
Research areas: Social cognition, social neuroscience, decision-making, learning, ageing, lifespan, prosocial behaviour, cognitive neuroscience
Dr. Patricia Lockwood is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her lab investigates social learning and decision-making across the lifespan and in neurological and psychiatric disorders using a mixture of computational modelling, behavioural measures, self report, patient studies and neuroimaging. You can read more about the work in the lab here: www.sdn-lab.org.
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Prof. Hannah Nam, BA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Brooklyn College (City University of New York) and The Graduate Center (City University of New York), New York, USA
orcid.org/0000-0003-3006-0584
Research areas: inequality; intergroup processes; prejudice and discrimination; ideology; political psychology; political neuroscience; social cognition.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College. I am interested in the psychology of political complacency and political action in contexts of systemic and cultural inequality, particularly in the domains of racial and economic disparities. I use survey, experimental, and neuroscientific methods to understand social and political behavior across multiple levels of analysis.
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Dr. Eva R. Pool, BSc, MSc, PhD
Senior Research, Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
orcid.org/0000-0001-5929-1007
Research areas: Reward Seeking Behaviors; Conditioning and Associative Learning; Taste and Olfaction; Neuroimaging; Affective science
Dr Eva R Pool is a senior researcher at the University of Geneva. Her research mainly focuses on the development of a deeper understanding of the affective mechanisms underlying reward-seeking behavior, learning and decision-making. To address these questions, she uses large variety of experimental procedures involving psychophysiological and fMRI techniques as well as meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews..
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Dr. Yafeng Pan, BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-5633-8313
Research areas: educational neuroscience, social learning, social interaction, interpersonal synchrony, fNIRS
Dr. Yafeng Pan is a Hundred-Talent Program Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University. His research interests are in the areas of human teaching, social learning and interactions. More specifically, his lab focuses on how correlated brain activity across individuals tracks (and underlies) teaching, interpersonal learning, cooperation, decision-making, and other high-level social processes. He uses behavioral, psychophysiological, neuroimaging, and neuro-modulation methods, to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms that mediate human social behaviors. His research also holds relevance for clinical and pedagogical practices.
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Dr. Erdem Pulcu, BA, MSc, PhD
University of Oxford, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-2170-0677
Research areas: Reinforcement learning, social decision-making, game theory, memory, functional neuroimaging, risk, temporal discounting
I obtained my doctoral degree from University of Manchester Medical School in 2014, studying social and value-based decision-making impairments in patients with major depressive disorder and their neurobiology. After my graduation, I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute (Tokyo) and Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet; Osaka) working on computational models of decision-making under uncertainty and in competitive, social interactive games. I am interested in investigating models of reinforcement learning and social interactive decision-making in patients with depression and healthy volunteers undergoing pharmacological manipulation. My other interests involve evolutionary models of human social behaviours.
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Dr. Daniel Quintana, B Psych (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-0004
Research areas: Psychoneuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, meta-science, research methods
Dr. Quintana is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained his PhD in psychology from the University of Sydney. His main research interest is the investigation of biological systems that link psychosocial factors to health, with a focus on neuroendocrine systems and the autonomic nervous system. His research group uses various research approaches, including intervention trials, large-scale genetics studies, neuroimaging, and the collection of autonomic nervous system data. His other research interest is meta-science, which is the evaluation and improvement of research methods. Dr. Quintana has received numerous honours for his research, including the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology Dirk Hellhammer Award, the University of Oslo Prize for Young Researchers, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Award for Young Researchers.
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Dr. Jesse Rissman, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
orcid.org/0000-0001-8889-5539
Research areas: episodic memory, working memory, attentional control, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, aging, individual differences
Jesse Rissman is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Research in his laboratory explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human memory, with an emphasis understanding the influence of contextual information and attentional goal states. He uses fMRI and transcranial stimulation to characterize the relevant brain circuity, and his experiments often strive to create naturalistic learning experiences using methods such as virtual reality and wearable life-logging cameras.
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Dr. Philipp Schmid, BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Netherlands
orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2966-0806
Research areas: health decision-making, persuasion, mis-disinformation, vaccine hesitancy, science denialism, risk perception
I am an assistant professor of health communication at Radboud University in the Netherlands. I am interested in the impact of misinformation and science denialism on individuals’ health decision-making, as well as communication strategies to counter these impacts. I am particularly engaged in research on vaccine hesitancy within this area of interest. I predominantly employ experimental research, quantitative survey studies, and systematic reviews to address my research questions.
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Prof. Anna-Lena Schubert, BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
orcid.org/0000-0001-7248-0662
Research areas: individual differences; cognitive abilities; processing speed; working memory capacity; attentional control; psychometrics; statistical modeling; mathematical modeling; EEG
Anna-Lena Schubert is Professor for Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in the Department of Psychology at the University of Mainz. She obtained her PhD in psychology from Heidelberg University in 2016, focusing on the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities. In her lab, she studies why some people are smarter than others, aiming to understand the elementary neurocognitive processes contributing to individual differences in higher-order cognitive abilities such as intelligence and reasoning. She has been working on the psychometrics of EEG data and mathematical models of cognition to overcome measurement problems, aiming to link theoretically guided measures of cognitive processes with individual differences in cognitive abilities. Her work integrates psychometric approaches with cognitive psychology, electrophysiology, and individual differences research. She is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society and received the Richard J. Haier Prize for Neuroscience Studies of Intelligence for her work on the neurocognitive mechanisms contributing to cognitive abilities. She also has an avid interest in open science and is a member of the Open Science Commission of the German Psychological Society (DGPs).
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Prof. Jonna K. Vuoskoski, BA, MA, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology & Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
orcid.org/0000-0003-0049-4373
Research areas: Music cognition, music and emotion, empathy, social bonding, crossmodal perception
Jonna Vuoskoski is Associate Professor of Music Cognition at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her position is shared between the Departments of Psychology and Musicology, and she is also part of the leader group at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion, where she leads the Interaction & Pleasure research cluster. After completing her PhD at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research (University of Jyväskylä) in 2012, Vuoskoski has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Jyväskylä (Finland). Her main areas of interest are music-induced emotion, empathy, and the social and embodied cognition of music.
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Dr. Haiyan Wu, BSc, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau
orcid.org/ 0000-0001-8869-6636
Research areas: Emotion and Decision
Professor Haiyan Wu is the Principal Investigator of ANDlab at the University of Macau (https://andlab-um.com/) and a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining the University of Macau, Professor Wu obtained her Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University and served as a researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on developing an interdisciplinary technological framework that integrates artificial intelligence, brain imaging, computational models, intracranial and extracranial neural signals, neural modulation, virtual reality, and big data to explore social neuroscience questions. Her work primarily centers on the interaction between emotion and decision-making in the brain.
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We will be expanding or Editorial Board as the journal grows and welcome applications for Editorial Board members across all areas of psychological research. In an effort to be more inclusive of the research community as a whole, we are particularly interested in recruiting Early Career Researchers (individuals who completed their PhD or medical degree less than 10 years ago and hold a non-tenured position). We are also aiming for an equitable demographic representation within our Editorial Board, for example, with respect to gender, ethnicity and geography, and would encourage applications from a diverse pool of interested researchers.
As an Editorial Board Member for Communications Psychology you would be expected to share the same passion as the in-house editors to serve our communities by assessing, selecting and helping to improve the papers that the journal publishes. You should be willing to handle at least 3 manuscripts per month. We hope that this role would provide you with insight into the editorial process and foster a rich collaboration with our in-house team of professional editors.
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