Dr. Imants Barušs is a professor in the Department of Psychology at King’s University College. With expertise in consciousness studies, Professor Barušs teaches undergraduate courses about consciousness, altered states of consciousness, and the psychology of religion and spirituality. His current research is concerned with apparent after-death communication with cell phones. He regularly supervises undergraduate theses…
Christopher (Chris) Charles French is a British psychologist who is prominent in the field of anomalistic psychology, with a focus on the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, which he founded…
James J. Hughes is a sociologist, bioethicist and futurist. He is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning, at University of Massachusetts Boston. Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant…
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Seth is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness. Seth’s mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to…
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical…
Dr. Christoph Scheepers is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Methods & Metascience at University of Glasgow. Scheepers obtained his psychology degree at the University of Bochum in 1991, and his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1997. He held a two-year post-doc position at the University of Glasgow before starting a C1…
Gabriel A. Radvansky is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in a broad range of qualities of memory and comprehension. In particular, how they are involved in understanding and remembering events based on autobiographical, virtual, narrative, and other experiences. He is also strongly interested in how memories change…
Joshua Wilt is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. One line of his research explores the structure of personality traits, personality processes that manifest in daily life, and the ways in which personality structure and process may be integrated. Much of his work in this area…
Mario Gollwitzer’s research program is located at the crossroads of justice, morality, and aggression. He is interested in what people hope to gain when they take revenge, when they opt for a particular kind of penalty for criminal offenses, and what they regard a “fair” retribution. He is trying to find evidence for the notion…
Jonathan Schooler, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara, Director of UCSB’s Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential, and Acting Director of the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1987 and then joined…