About Us
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Social Cognition [Cologne, Germany] |
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Associate professor birte.englich[at]uni-koeln.de |
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Dr Birte Englich is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology and Decision Research at the University of Cologne. She has published on judgment and decision making in leading psychological journals. Her main research focus is on legal decision making in the courtroom. In addition she pursues applications of decision making models in economic and educational contexts. Her recent research focuses on in the impact of social power on cognition and behavior, on the role of expertise in bias correction as well as in moral decision making. Dr Englich’s research is grounded in social cognitive models of information processing. She has ample experience in communicating her research insights to a non-psychology audience including researchers from other fields, judicial experts, education professionals and the broader public. |
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PhD Student susanne.schmittat[at]uni-koeln.de |
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Susanne Schmittat studied Psychology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis on cognitive psychology in 2009, and her Master of Science degree in Psychology and Law in 2010. She is a research associate and a doctoral student at the University of Cologne, Germany. Together with Birte Englich she investigates the role of confirmatory information search in moral decision making, the influences of emotions on moral judgment and how expertise can facilitate or inhibit these influences. |
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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics [Oxford, Great Britain] |
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Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics guy.kahane[at]philosophy.ox.ac.uk |
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Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, at the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He is also a Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Future of Humanity Institute, both at the Oxford Martin School. Kahane is a recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award. Kahane has a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Tel-Aviv University, and B. Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in philosophy from Oxford University. Kahane has published extensively in practical ethics, neuroethics, meta-ethics and value theory, and is co-editor of Wittgenstein and His Interpreters (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and Enhancing Human Capacities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is particularly interested in evolutionary, psychological and neuroscientific accounts of morality and their possible ethical implication, and is also actively engaged in using neuroimaging and other empirical methods to study moral psychology.
Links: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics: http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford Centre for Neuroethics: http://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/ |
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow regina.rini[at]philosophy.ox.ac.uk |
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Regina Rini recently completed her doctorate in Philosophy at New York University. Before that, she worked as a research assistant in Neuroscience. Her current research focuses on the implications of cognitive science findings for methodology and substantive conclusions within normative ethical theory. |
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Theory and History of Psychology [Groningen, The Netherlands] |
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Assistent Professor s.schleim[at]rug.nl |
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Stephan Schleim studied philosophy, psychology, and computer science at the Universities of Mainz and Frankfurt (M.A., 2005). Afterward he joined the interdisciplinary research group Animal Emotionale at the University Clinics Frankfurt and Bonn to investigate brain processes related to normative decisions. He received his PhD in cognitive science at the University of Osnabrück in 2009 and joined the Theory and History of Psychology group in Groningen in the same year. His dissertation was awarded the Barbara Wengeler Price for the connection of philosophy and neuroscience in 2010. Stephan Schleim’s main research interests are the theory, social implications of and public debate on neuroscience. He is also a science writer since 2005 and mainly publishes in German magazines, newspapers and online with translations into Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. He has written two books on neuroscience and society, Gedankenlesen ("Mind Reading", 2008) and Die Neurogesellschaft ("The Neurosociety", 2011). |
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Phd Student f.schirmann[at]rug.nl |
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Felix Schirmann studied psychology in Berlin and Vienna with an emphasis on theory, methodology, and philosophy of psychology (Diploma, 2010). He pursues his PhD Thesis on the history and sociology of brain-based moral psychology and the permeation of ideas from moral psychological research into society. |
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