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is a detective chief superintendent and associate professor at the Norwegian Police University College in Oslo, and has 15 years’ experience as a senior detective in the Oslo Police department and at ...

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is a psychologist and personality researcher at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. His work focuses on motivated (self-)perception, specifically examining individual differences in self-knowledge ...

is completing an MPhil in philosophy at the University of Sydney in Australia. His research considers how equality and inequality are reflected in everyday interactions between people.

is a recent graduate from the University of Cambridge in human, social and political sciences.