Signatories
of the Declaration of CIRCE’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Mental Immunity
Total Signatory Count as of January 2024: 108
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Name | Position(s) | Affiliation(s) |
Andy Norman, PhD | Founder and Director Humanism Initiative Director | CIRCE Carnegie Mellon University |
Lee McIntyre, PhD | Board Member Research Fellow | CIRCE Boston University |
Melanie Trecek-King, MA | Thinking Is Power Director of Education | Massasoit Community College CIRCE |
Stephan Lewandowsky, PhD | Professor | University of Bristol |
Sander van der Linden, PhD | Professor of Social Psychology | University of Cambridge |
David Sloan Wilson, PhD | SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus President | Binghamton University Prosocial World |
Claire Wardle, PhD | Professor | Brown University |
Seema Yasmin, MD | Director | Stanford Health Communication Initiative |
Josh Compton, PhD | Professor | Dartmouth College |
Jon Roozenbeek, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Cambridge |
Steven Gilbert, PhD | Professor Emeritus | Minnesota State University Mankato |
Karin Tamerius, MD | Founder & Managing Director | Smart Politics |
Dr. Steije Hofhuis, PhD | Lecturer in cultural history | Utrecht University |
Maarten Boudry, PhD | Postdoctoral researcher | Ghent University |
David Samson, PhD | Associate Professor | University of Toronto, Mississauga |
Daniel Dennett, PhD | Professor | Tufts University |
Michael Shermer, PhD | Publisher Presidential Fellow | Skeptic Magazine Chapman University |
Anthony Magnabosco | Executive Director | Street Epistemology International |
Harris Eyre, MD, PhD | Lead Fellow | Brain Capital Alliance Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy |
Ralph Hertwig, PhD | Director Honorary Professor | Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin |
Gale M. Sinatra, PhD | Stephen H. Crocker Chair and Associate Dean for Research | Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California |
Barry Mauer, PhD | Associate Professor of English | University of Central Florida |
Anil Seth, PhD | Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience | University of Sussex |
Ian H Robertson, PhD | Professor | Trinity College Dublin |
Kevin Grimes, MD, MBA | Professor, Chemical and Systems Biology | Stanford University School of Medicine |
Don Moore, PhD | Professor | UC Berkeley |
John V. Petrocelli, PhD | Professor | Wake Forest University |
Michael Cherenson | Executive Vice President Former CEO | SCG Advertising + Public Relations Public Relations Society of America |
Mário Carneiro, MD | Medical Doctor | Coimbra Hospital and University Center |
Mandi Goodsett, MA | Librarian | Cleveland State University |
Steven Neuberg, PhD | Foundation Professor of Psychology | Arizona State University |
Odaelys Pollard, PhD | Director of Research | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College |
Dennis Trumble, PhD | Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering | Carnegie Mellon University |
Eric Shattuck, PhD | Assistant Professor of Research | University of Texas at San Antonio |
Alyssa M. Brumis, PhD | Visiting Assistant Professor | Notre Dame of Maryland University |
Graham Bodie, PhD | Professor of Integrated Marketing Communication | University of Mississippi |
John Venecek, MLS | Humanities Librarian | University of Central Florida |
James Snyder, MD | Professor Emeritus | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
Robert Faw | CEO | Matchbox Group |
Clay Farris Naff | Author and Science Correspondent | Independent |
Robert Greene | Author | Penguin Books |
Michael Walsh Dickey, PhD | Professor and Assistant Dean | University of Pittsburgh |
Kathleen M Carley, PhD | Professor Director | Carnegie Mellon University CMU IDeaS center |
Joseph Henrich, PhD | Professor | Harvard University |
Jonathan Osborne, PhD | Kamalachari Professor of Science Education, Emeritus | Stanford University |
Jan De Maeyer, PhD | Visiting Professor of Socratic Methods Education | University Ghent Belgium |
Daniel Pimentel, PhDc | Doctoral Candidate | Stanford University |
Nicholas Humphrey, PhD | Professor Emeritus | Darwin College, Cambridge |
Partha Dasgupta, PhD | Professor | University of Cambridge |
Carol Graham, DPhil | Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow | The Brookings Institution |
Athena Aktipis, PhD | Associate Professor Director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative | Arizona State University |
Bruce Hood, PhD | Professor | University of Bristol |
Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD | Emeritus Professor | University of Exeter, UK |
Christopher French, PhD | Emeritus Professor of Psychology | Goldsmiths, University of London |
Mark Newbrook, PhD | Retired Senior Lecturer | Skeptical Humanities |
Brian Dunning | Executive Director | Skeptoid Media |
Frans de Waal, PhD | Professor Emeritus | EMORY University |
Jonathan Jarry, MSc | Science Communicator | McGill University's Office for Science and Society |
David Leake, PhD | Research Specialist | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Coert Visser, Drs. | Psychologist, author | ProgressFocused.com |
J T Velikovsky, PhD | Evolutionary Culturologist (Meta-meta-Scientist) | The Newcastle School of Creativity, The University of Newcastle, Australia |
Peter Lugten, BVMA | Independent philosopher | ScholarshipOfFoolsPhilosophy.com |
Ed Gibney, PhD | Author | Evolutionary Philosophy Circle |
Rob Swigart, PhD | Author | SUNY at Buffalo |
Andy Lord | Cliologist | Cliology.com |
Gleb Tsipursky, PhD | Chair of the Board and Co-Founder | Pro-Truth Pledge |
Dean Keith Simonton, PhD | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology | University of California, Davis |
Jonathan N. Stea, PhD | Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Assistant Professor | University of Calgary |
David Robert Grimes, PhD | Assistant Professor | Trinity College Dublin |
Alejandro Jorge Borgo | Editor in Chief | Committee for Skeptical Inquiry / Pensar magazine |
Kathleen Hart, PhD | Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies | Vassar College |
Diane Sunar, PhD | Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) | Istanbul Bilgi University |
Zafir Ivanov | Independent researcher | None |
Liano Sharon | Consulting Philosopher Delegate (MI) | Independent Democratic National Committee |
Jon Guy | Author of Think Straight | Independent |
Steve Janssen, PhD | Professor of Psychology | University of Nottingham Malaysia |
Michael P. Schlaile, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher | Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and University of Hohenheim |
Nicholas B. Tiller, PhD | Senior Researcher | Harbor-UCLA |
Ulrich S. Tran, DSc | Senior Lecturer | University of Vienna |
Brad Ericson, PhD | Associate Professor of Biology (retired) | University of Nebraska at Kearney (retired) |
Jonah Wisch, MBA | Program Director | National Cybersecurity Center |
Klaus Oberauer, DPhil | Professor | University of Zurich |
Jonathan H. Turner, PhD | Professor | University of California, Riverside and Santa Barbara |
Susan Hanisch, PhD | Postdoctoral researcher | University of Leipzig; Friedrich-Schiller University Jena; Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology; Prosocial World |
Dustin Eirdosh, PhD | Post-doc (educational innovation researcher) | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology |
Renee Fleeman, PhD | Assistant Professor | University of Central Florida |
Timothy Caulfield, PhD | Professor | University of Alberta |
Lawrence M. Eppard, PhD | Professor | Shippensburg University |
Jessica Ghilani, PhD | Associate Professor of Communication | University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg |
Joseph Forgas, DPhil | Scientia Professor | University of New South Wales, Sydney |
Max Coltheart, PhD | Emeritus Professor | Macquarie University |
Mark Lance, PhD | Professor of philosophy | Georgetown University |
Thomas Kemple, PhD | Professor | University of British Columbia |
Michael Polgar, PhD | Professor | Penn State University |
Lavinia Stan, PhD | Professor | St. Francis Xavier University, Canada |
Pavel Sidorov, PhD | Professor, Director Institute of Mental Health | Russian Academy of Sciences |
Peter Paul, PhD | Professor; Editor of American Annals of the Deaf | Ohio State University |
Luis Villarreal, PhD | Professor Emeritus | University of California, Irvine |
Nikhil Chaudhary, PhD | Assistant Professor | University of Cambridge |
Luke Johnson | Operations Director | CIRCE |
Victor Maseda, MS | Federal Cyber/Information Security Consultant | The George Washington University |
Barbara K. Hofer, PhD | Professor Emerita | Middlebury College |
Susan Blackmore, PhD, MSc | Psychologist, Writer, Visiting Professor | University of Plymouth |
Mallory DeMille | Social Media Specialist | Independent |
Robert N. Watson, PhD | Distinguished Professor of English | UCLA |
Brian Boyd, PhD, | Distinguished Professor Emeritus | University of Auckland |
Jesse Richardson | President and Founder | The School of Thought International |