Masoomeh Estaji is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU), Tehran, Iran. She holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from ATU. She earned the Top Researcher Award in the realm of humanities at the national level in 2024, and at ATU in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024. She has presented and published numerous papers on L2 education, language testing, and second language acquisition (SLA) in various national and international journals. Her research interests include language testing and assessment, ESP, and teacher education.
Kiyana Zhaleh is an assistant professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran. She does research in the areas of foreign language education, cross-cultural communication, and social psychology of justice. She and her co-authors won the Top Paper Award at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) conference held in Paris (May 2022). She has published papers in such prestigious journals as Computer Assisted Language Learning, Communication Quarterly, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Current Psychology, and System.
Rebecca M. Chory is a professor of Management at Frostburg State University, Maryland, USA, and a two-time Fulbright Scholar to Budapest, Hungary. She earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, USA. She has published over 65 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and 10 book chapters, and she has earned 28 Top Paper awards for her research. Her research focuses on classroom and organizational justice, personal workplace relationships, particularly workplace romances and workplace friendships, and antisocial organizational and instructional behavior.
Chiara Berti is an associate professor of social psychology of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. After completing her graduate studies in medicine and surgery at University of Bologna, Italy, she completed her postgraduate studies in both psychology (University of Bologna, Italy) and psychiatry (University of Ancona, Italy). She received the National Scientific Habilitation for the role of Full Professor of social psychology by Italian Ministry of Education University and Research. She was also an elected member of the Italian University Council (C.U.N.) (2013-2021). Her most recent research fields include, among others, social representation, social psychology of justice, educational justice, juridical psychology, and community psychology.