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