Jessica Röhner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Her research focuses on alternative approaches to the measurement of psychological characteristics, response distortion, artifcial intelligence, prejudice, and discrimination. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the Technical University of Chemnitz. In 2015, she was awarded the Hogrefe Poster Award on Psychological Assessment. Dr. Röhner is the author or co-author of 7 monographs, 36 book chapters or encyclopedia entries, and 13 papers in refereed scientifc journals. Jessica Röhner has presented her fndings at national and international conferences and as an invited speaker at various universities and institutions. She is internationally recognized as an expert in the felds of implicit measures, prejudice and discrimination, and phenomena of response distortion. She writes methodological tutorials and is a reviewer for journals such as Behavior Research Methods, Experimental Psychology, and the European Journal of Psychological Assessment. In addition, she has collaborated with researchers from Israel, Canada, and the US. Her studies have appeared in high-impact journals, such as Behavior Research Methods and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Association for Research in Personality, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Astrid Schütz is a professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Germany, where she heads the Personality Psychology and Assessment research group as well as the Competence Center for Applied Personnel Psychology. She studies the impact of personality and situational factors on social behavior, focusing on how personal views and situational constraints shape social interactions and how these interactions in turn affect well-being and effectiveness. She has developed qualitative and quantitative tools to measure self-concept, (implicit) attitudes, and interactive behavior. Utilizing laboratory research as well as naturalistic studies, her goal is to better understand the interplay of self-images and self-presentation with well-being and performance. She is also the University’s offcer for gender equality and served as the University’s Vice President in the feld of research and xii academic careers from 2012 to 2015. Before joining the University of Bamberg in 2011, she was a professor of psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology from 1999 to 2011 and a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, Case Western Reserve University, Universidad de Huelva, and the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include personality differences and self-presentation as well as social interaction in face-to-face and virtual environments. Prof. Schütz has authored or co-authored 20 books and 3 psychometric tests, co-edited 8 booksor journal volumes, and authored or co-authored more than 128 book chapters or encyclopedia entries. She has published more than 184 papers in refereed journals and more than 182 conference presentations. Her publications have been cited 13,000 times (h-index 59 in Google Scholar). She is associate editor of the Journal of Individual Differences and Frontiers in Psychology and a member of the editorial board of Self and Identity. She has received funding for more than 10 research projects and has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and has served as a member of the Task Force on European Research Funding of the German Rectors’ Conference.
