Collaborators

Patrick Forscher is a Post-Doc research at Co-Regulation (CORE) Lab, currently focusing on Meta-science. Previously he studied social disparities and what to do about them. Patrick also has a strong interest in research methods and statistics.

André Kaiser is a Professor of Comparative Politics at University of Cologne, Germany. He is also the Director of Cologne Center for Comparative Politics. His research focuses on Comparative Political Institutions, Federalism, Decentralization and Multilevel Governance, and Party Systems.

Christopher S. Parker is a professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of “Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South” and “Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America.” He is currently working on a third book about the forebears of the Tea Party.

Tobias Rothmund is a professor at the Institute for Communication Science (IfKW) at Friedrich Schiller University, Germany. He investigates psychological processes and phenomena in the context of media-mediated communication.

Ben Saunders is an Associate Professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn. His theoretical interests are social identity, optimal distinctiveness theory, social categorization, self-affirmation, stereotype threat, and contingency theory of justice reasoning. Ben’s research interests are stereotype threat, the dual-process model of prejudice, ambivalent sexism, system justification theory, terror management theory, and mortality salience research.

Joshua Tybur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at VU Amsterdam. His work is dedicated to better understanding how people solve some of the fundamental problems of life, including avoiding infectious diseases, obtaining and retaining a mate, and navigating the threats and affordances of interdependence.

Contributors

Leticia Micheli is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Psychology at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research focuses on the investigation of how inequality, scarcity and unfairness influence decision-making. She employs the interdisciplinary approach of Decision Neuroscience, drawing on insights from Psychology, Economics and Neuroscience and using a variety of behavioral and neuroscientific techniques (e.g., functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation) in her research.

Tamara Marques is a research assistant currently doing a masters in Sociology at University of Minho, Portugal. She is interested in Black Lives Matter, Race & Ethnicity, Social Movements and their interplay in Political Behavior. Tamara is currently writing her master thesis on the topic of “To whom do the lives of Blacks matter? Investigating the determinants of support for the Black Lives Matter Movement”

Principal Investigator

Flavio Azevedo is a Brazilian assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University. He held an equivalent position at the Social Psychology department at the University of Groningen from 2023 to April 2024. His research primarily focuses on (1) the political psychology of ideological attitudes and their psychological underpinnings; and (2) integrating open science into higher education. Flavio was a research associate at the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and a Fulbright fellow at New York University, New York, USA. Flavio held additional postdoc positions at the Saxony’s Center for Criminological Research (ZFKS) and at the Communication Department of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Flavio obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science with a thesis entitled “Ideologies, Ideological Asymmetries, and the Psychological Roots of Political Behavior” at the Center for Comparative Politics of the University of Cologne, a German Excellence Center, obtaining summa cum laude for his disputation and magna cum laude for his dissertation work. Flavio is the principal investigator of The Psychology of Political Behavior Studies (PBBS; ppbs.flavioazevedo.com), a series of studies informing psychological explanations of political attitudes, values, voting, and participation. Flavio Azevedo is a pioneer in developing tools and practices in Open Science and advocates for a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible Open Science movement. He is a recognized international leader in the field and has received prestigious awards such as the UKRN Open Science Dorothy Bishop Prize, Hidden-REF, and JISC Champion. Flavio co-founded and directs FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training; forrt.org), an award-winning, interdisciplinary, and international community of over 1500 early-career scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience. Check out his website flavioazevedo.com.