Christian von Scheve, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany,Mikko Salmella, Academy Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland

Christian von Scheve is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Freie Universitat Berlin, where he heads the Research Area "Sociology of Emotion" at the Institute of Sociology. He is also affiliated to the Research Cluster "Languages of Emotion" at Freie Universitat and appointed Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna and a Fellow of the Research Group "Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He studied Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. He works in the sociology of culture and stratification as well as in economic sociology and social psychology and focuses on the manifold intersections of culture, society, and emotion.

Mikko Salmela is an Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and a member of Finnish Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences. He worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001-2002 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in 2006-2007. Salmela studied Philosophy and Political History at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his doctorate in Social Sciences. His postdoctoral and subsequent research has focused on the philosophy of emotions from an interdisciplinarily informed perspective. In particular, he addresses questions about the nature and justification of emotions, both individual and collective; about the relation of emotions, values, and identity; and about the roles of collective affective phenomena in the structure and dynamics of social groups.

Nyla R. Branscombe, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, USA
Tobias Brosch, Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Martin Bruder, University of Konstanz , Zukunftskolleg, Martin Bruder, Department of Psychology/Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Randall Collins, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joseph de Rivera, Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
Mark A. Ferguson, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, WI, USA
Agneta Fischer, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Megan Forbes, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Antonios Garas, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
David Garcia, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Margaret Gilbert, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Eran Halperin, The New School of Psychology
Elaine Hatfield, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Bennett W. Helm, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA
Regine Herbrik, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Ursula Hess, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Stephanie Houde, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Nicole E. Iannone, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
James M. Jasper, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Arvid Kappas, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Janice R. Kelly, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Hubert Knoblauch, Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
J. David Knottnerus, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Joel Krueger, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Claus Lamm, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
Edward J. Lawler, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Diane M. Mackie, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Antony S. R. Manstead, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK
Megan K. McCarty, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Dario Paez, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Brian Parkinson, University of Oxford, UK
John Protevi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Stefan Rank, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna, Austria
Richard L. Rapson, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Devin G. Ray, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bernard Rimé, Université de Louvain, Belgium
Mikko Salmela, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hans Bernhard Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Giorgia Silani, Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste, Italy
Marcin Skowron, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna, Austria
Jan Slaby, Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Eliot R. Smith, University of Indiana Bloomington, IN, USA
Gavin Brent Sullivan, School of Social, Psychological and Communication Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Mike Thelwall, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Shane R. Thye, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Ilmo van der Löwe, University of Oxford, UK
Christian von Scheve, Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jeongkoo Yoon, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea