Anna Baumert
Dr. Anna Baumert is professor for social and personality psychology at the University of Wuppertal. Previously, she headed the Research Group on Moral Courage at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn. Her research addresses the interplay of personality and social processes in shaping moral behavior and reactions to injustice.
Keynote: Psychological processes of bystander intervention against norm violations
Jan Häusser
Jan Häusser is a professor of Social Psychology at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen. His research is about social identy, stress, social desicion making and occupational health. His favorite methods are experiments and ambulatory assessment and whenever possible he investigates actual behaviuor and physiological markers in addition to (self-reported) psychological variables.
Keynote: The psychological partnership between social identity and social support
Roland Imhoff
Roland completed his PhD on a scholarship at the University of Bonn in 2010. He moved to Cologne in 2012 for an assistant professorship in Social Cognition and has been Chair of Social and Legal Psychology at the University of Mainz since 2015. He has contributed to several collaborative research initiatives (FOR Relativity in Social Cognition; SFB Humandifferenzierung; SPP Rethinking Disinformation) and has served the scientific community in various roles, including as a member of the EASP Executive Committee, Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Social Psychology, and elected member of the DFG DEI Taskforce. He is interested in categorization, cognitive biases, conspiracies, and fermentation.
Keynote: Beyond Crazy: Understanding Conspiracy Mentality as a Generalized Political Attitude
Paolo Riva
Paolo Riva is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research examines the psychological and social consequences of exclusion, rejection, and isolation, as well as the impact of digital technologies on social relationships and well-being. He combines experimental, longitudinal, and field methods to investigate how people connect – or disconnect – in contemporary society.
Keynote: Temporal Dimensions of Social Exclusion: Insights and Challenges for the Need-Threat Model