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is professor of personality psychology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His research focuses on personality, mental health, interpersonal process, psychotherapy, and human-animal relations.

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is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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is a language scientist and writer. She has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University in Rhode Island and at the University of Calgary, and is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and ...