Dr Friedrich Funke is a political and social psychologist. He directs the Centre for Advanced Research Methodology at the Graduate Academy/Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). Dr Thomas Petzel is Lecturer in Social Psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany). Dr Christopher Cohrs is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland), where he also works in the Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP). John Duckitt, PhD, is Professor for Social Psychology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand).