Dr. Baysu is a social and political psychologist. Her research focuses on the social psychology of cultural diversity, immigration and integration, educational success of immigrants and minorities, intergroup relations, identity politics and political participation of minorities. In 2018, she received a grant from Jacobs Foundation as the Principal Investigator in the project “Cultural diversity approaches in schools and their implications for student achievement and adjustment”. She was also awarded with Advanced Research Center Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of City University of New York where she worked for 6 months as a Visiting Professor. Please check her latest research at https://bold.expert/stereotyping-affects-school-engagement/

Danielle is an applied social psychologist with a specific focus on intergroup relations, intergroup conflict and social change. As an applied researcher these theoretical constructs are examined within real-world contexts, particularly those found within divided communities. Current projects explore the impact of intergroup contact experienced through various contact-based initiatives on the promotion of positive intergroup relations. She is currently leading the evaluation of the European Union’s PEACE IV Children and Young People programme and the Collaboration and Sharing in Education Project (CASE) delivered by the Education Authority and Léargas.

My research investigates the development of social cognition with a particular emphasis on how children and adults categorize others into social groups, and how these categories then guide further inferences and behaviour. I am also interested in children's reasoning about language and accent as social categories that influence multiple aspects of person perception and social evaluation.

I am a social‐personality psychologist whose research program cuts across the psychology of interpersonal relationships, personality psychology, and psychological assessment. I have worked on forgiveness, revenge and justice in interpersonal relationships, the effects of steroid hormones on motivation and behavior in the context of ovulatory cycle effects and hormonal contraception, as well as the conceptualization and measurement of narcissism as a personality trait and its consequences. My latest work has centered on ideal partner preferences and their role for relationship development and wellbeing. I also have a keen interest in non-normative life and relationship concepts and am passionate about the dissemination of research designs for the study of close relationships. 

My research focuses on understanding and reducing intergroup biases, with a specific focus on gender biases in organisational and academic contexts. I am particularly interested in analysing the interpersonal mechanism through which women are negatively influenced by existing implicit and explicit gender stereotypes in social interactions such as job interviews and negotiations. My research also seeks to understand and reduce potentially negative attitudes towards gender equality initiatives in masculine domains.

My research lies at the intersection of social, political, and peace psychology. It broadly focuses on the psychological processes of intergroup conflicts and their resolution, group-based violence, national and ethnic identity, transitional justice, as well as civil resistance and social change. In collaboration with colleagues from different parts of the world, I am currently investigating the long-term impact of historical collective trauma on contemporary conflicts from both victim and perpetrator perspectives. In another cross-national project, I am conducting qualitative and quantitative studies to understand political resistance in repressive contexts. I have a particular interest in contextualizing psychological research and extending it to underrepresented regions and marginalized groups. My research draws on theories from various disciplines, such as political science, international relations, and health psychology. It utilizes multiple methods, including surveys, experiments, field experiments, archival analyses, and interviews.

My interests include social and communicative interactions, social signal processing and affective computing, laughter and humour, cognition and emotion, cross-cultural emotion perception, the evolution of human communication and language, embodied conversational agents, risk perception and communication, opinion dynamics, and agent-based modelling.

Magdalena is a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her PhD in 2014 from the University of Clermont Auvergne. Her research focuses on production, perception, and social functions of facial expressions, in particular smiles and laughter.

I am an experimental social psychologist whose research also draws from cognitive psychology and organisational psychology. I am interested in how social contexts influence the way we make judgments and decisions. My basic research focuses on quantitative judgments in interacting groups (how wise are interacting groups?) and in judge-advisor systems (why are we so resistant to advice?). The applied part of my work is concerned with escalation of commitment in financial decision-making and, in particular, how decision-makers use information such as expert advice in escalation contexts.

My research involves developing and evaluating interventions designed to promote more positive intergroup relations in schools, communities and workplaces. In particular, I focus on interventions that bring together people from different social groups (for example on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexuality), or which help to increase people’s interest and confidence in engaging with people from different backgrounds.