WOLFGANG WAGNER was born in Vienna and received his PhD at the university of Vienna. Currently he is professor of social and economic psychology at the University of Linz. He has held various visiting professorships in the UK, France, Spain and Latin America. He founded the now online-journal Papers on Social Representations, published the German book Alltagsdiskurs and co-edited Theories and Controversies in Societal Psychology.

NICKY HAYES is a social psychologist with particular research interests in social representations and social identification, in everyday life and in managerial contexts. She is also widely known as the author of several books including Successful Team Management, Doing Psychological Research and various textbooks.