Thinkers (page 10)

David A. Richards is a health services researcher at the University of Exeter Medical School and the chief investigator of the COBRA trial, which assigned 440 adults with depression at random to…

David Adam is a United Kingdom science journalist with a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Leeds, which settles the subject of the doctorate his own book leaves unstated. He…

David Brydan is Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern International Relations in the Department of History at King's College London, where he has worked since 2018 and is currently Senior Tutor…

David E. Cummings is the first author of the 2001 paper in Diabetes that showed ghrelin, a hormone made mostly in the stomach that makes people feel hungry, climbs sharply in the period before each…

Economist whose name appears on both halves of this site's coverage: how choice environments help people, and how they are used to extract from them.

David Meyer is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Michigan and, with Roger Schvaneveldt, the co-author of the 1971 paper that established semantic priming. In 2014 he wrote a…

Science writer, author of The Expectation Effect (2022), a popular synthesis of research on how beliefs and expectations shape experience, from placebo and nocebo to appetite and exercise.

David Rubin is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and his work on how autobiographical memory is distributed across a life established the reminiscence bump: for people…

David Shanks is an experimental psychologist at University College London and a long-standing critic of claims about unconscious influence on behaviour. He published the 2017 reply showing that…

Deborah Kendzierski is an American social psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Villanova University, and she originated the exercise self-schema: the idea that people hold cognitive…

Social psychologist whose 1993 studies with Dale Miller showed students believing they were less comfortable with campus drinking than the average student, a classic demonstration of pluralistic…

Economist and benefits researcher, co-author of the 2001 pension study that remains the cleanest evidence for the default effect.