Welcoming New Editorial Board Members Who Joined Behavioral Sciences in the First Half of 2026

We are pleased to announce that new scholars have been appointed as Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X), effective in the first half of 2026. We wish our new members success in both their research and their efforts to develop the journal (listed in order of joining date).

Section	Name	Affiliation	Interests
	Prof. Dr. Kyung Hee Kim	Department of School Psychology and Counselor Education, School of Education, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA	neuroscience of creativity and imagination; early childhood brain development and wellbeing; creative cognition across the lifespan; brain–behavior relationships in learning and development; educational neuroscience; creativity assessment and measurement; giftedness and talent development; mental health and creativity; neuroscience of sexual health, sensuality, and embodied experience; meta-analytic and quantitative synthesis methods; implications of AI for human cognition and development
	Prof. Dr. Rafael Lara-Alecio	Center for Research and Development in Dual Language and Literacy Acquisition, College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA	bilingual education; educational interventions; literacy-infused science instruction; teacher professional development; academic language development
	Prof. Dr. Ronald D. Rogge	Psychology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA	longitudinal designs (including daily diary and EMA); multilevel modeling (i.e., HLM, multilevel SEM, dynamic SEM, random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling); network analysis; latent class/profile analyses; measure development and validation; item response theory; measurement invariance analyses; CFA and EFA analyses and responsiveness to change analysis; relationship-enhancing (RE) interventions; psychological flexibility processes
	Prof. Dr. Jennifer Mangels	Department of Psychology, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY 10010, USA	attention; learning; memory; motivation; metacognition
	Prof. Dr. Ningyu Tang	Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China	values of generational cohorts; inclusive leadership and management; AI’s influence on employees
	Prof. Dr. Yansong Li	Department of Psychology, School of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China	social interaction; competition and cooperation; social presence; social hierarchy and rank formation; cognitive control; goal-directed behavior; decision-making; computational modeling; experimental
	Dr. Qiandong Wang	Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China	face processing; social attention; autism; eye tracking
	Prof. Dr. Chuanji Gao	School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China	emotion; affective neuroscience; multisensory processing; computational modeling
	Prof. Dr. Juzhe Xi	School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China	resilience; health psychology; gerontology; child and adolescent psychiatry; developmental and educational psychology
	Prof. Dr. Dianna Kenny	University of Sydney Association of Professors, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia	developmental and educational psychology; music performance anxiety; psychotherapy; gender dysphoria; child sexual abuse
	Dr. Jie Li	Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China	grief; trauma; psychological intervention; social support; posttraumatic growth; AI companion
	Prof. Dr. Bertram Opitz	Department of Psychology, Brandenburg Medical School, 16816 Neuruppin, Germany	neurocognition of learning and memory; educational psychology; translational cognitive neuroscience
	Dr. Rossella Mattea Quinto	Department of Health and Life Sciences, European University of Rome, 00163 Rome, Italy	health psychology; psychosomatic medicine; chronic illness; psychological adaptation; emotional adjustment; behavioral disorders; mental health; quality of life
	Dr. Massimiliano Conson	Laboratory of Developmental Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81100 Caserta, Italy	spatial cognition, mental imagery and motor simulation in children and adults with typical and atypical development; neuropsychology of anxiety and hypervigilance to threat
	Prof. Dr. Xiaomin Sun	School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China	time poverty; time scarcity; time perspective; well-being; happiness; large scale intervention
	Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Coldren	Department of Psychological Sciences and Counseling, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA	development of cognition and learning across the lifespan; empirical experiments and computational models
	Prof. Dr. Peter Hills	School of Sciences, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Newton St Loe BA2 9BN, UK	sexual violence; gender-based violence; prevention; sexual harassment; campaign evaluation; consent education; bystander intervention
	Dr. Juan Pablo Rey-López	Facultad de Deporte, UCAM Universidad Catolica de Murcia, 30107 Murcia, Spain	physical activity; exercise; nutrition; mortality; obesity
	Dr. Alessio Facchin	Department of Human and Social Sciences, Mercatorum University, 00186 Rome, Italy	neuropsychology; cognitive neuropsychology; behavioral testing; psychometrics; measurement; neuropsychological rehabilitation
	Dr. Yang Gao	College English Teaching Center, School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China	teacher psychology; teacher education; teacher beliefs
	Dr. Konstantinos Kotsis	Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45510, Greece	child and adolescent psychiatry; quality of care; mental health services
	Dr. Mirko Duradoni	Department of Human and Social Sciences, Mercatorum University, 00186 Rome, Italy	readiness to change; pro-environmental behaviors; connectedness to nature
	Prof. Dr. Fabio Garcia-Garcia	Health Sciences Institute, University of Veracruz, Xalapa 91050, Mexico	sleep function; neuronal plasticity; sleep deprivation; brain
	Dr. Madoka Kumashiro	Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK	personal growth; motivation; ideal self; well-being; close relationships; balancing fundamental needs; work–life balance; attachment styles; self-esteem; autonomy; mentoring
	Prof. Dr. Antonio Martínez-Nicolás	Human Physiology Area, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Santiago de La Ribera-San Javier, 30720 Murcia, Spain	circadian rhythms; thermoregulation; human performance; mental health; behavioral intervention
	Prof. Dr. Davide Marocco	Natural and Artificial Cognition Laboratory, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80125 Naples, Italy	artificial intelligence; cognitive robotics; embodied cognition; computational psychology; computational psychometrics; machine learning; AI in psychology; AI in education; psychological and educational assessment
	Prof. Dr. Stewart Cotterill	School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences University, Bournemouth BH5 2DF, UK	preparation for performance; decision-making; leadership; social media; technology and performance; performance psychology
	Prof. Dr. Rogelio Puente-Diaz	Business and Economic School, Universidad Anáhuac México, Huixquilucan 52786, Mexico	creativity; self-beliefs; situated cognition; consumer decision making
	Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Xu	Department of Counseling, Higher Education Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA	self-regulated learning in school, home, and online contexts; online groupwork; scale development and validation; cultural diversity
	Dr. Brian Mathias	School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK	multimodal learning; neurocognition of language and music; sensorimotor interaction; multilingualism and second language learning; neuromodulation
	Dr. Jamie J. Jirout	School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA	cognitive development; science of learning; curiosity; motivation; STEM education; early science education; intellectual humility; character development; translational research; education research methods
	Dr. Timothy Alexander Allen	Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA	learning and memory; in vivo electrophysiology; circuit analysis; cognitive neurobiology; Alzheimer’s disease; animal behavior; hippocampus; prefrontal cortex; nucleus reuniens of the thalamus
	Prof. Dr. Steve Duck	Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1498, USA	personal relationships, especially processes of acquaintance and processes of dissolution of relationships; rhetoric in everyday life

For further details about the Editorial Board of Behavioral Sciences, please visit the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci/editors.

The journal is currently recruiting new Editorial Board Members. If you are interested in this position, please refer to the following link (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/18063).