Thinkers (page 102)

Robert Provine appears on this site as neurobiologist; author of the 1993 study of where laughter falls in speech and the 2005 review of yawning, and first author of the 2009 study of tears.

Robert Rescorla was a researcher in learning and author of the 1968 Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology paper on the probability of an event in the presence and absence of a signal…

Robert Rosenthal is the psychologist whose name is attached to the Pygmalion effect. With Lenore Jacobson he ran the Oak School study in which teachers were told that randomly chosen pupils were…

Robert S. Baron is the author of the 2005 chapter So right it's wrong: Groupthink and the ubiquitous nature of polarized group decision making, in the series Advances in Experimental Social…

Robert Stickgold appears on this site as sleep researcher and last author of the 2010 Current Biology paper on dreaming of a learning task and sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

Behavioural economist at the University of East Anglia. With Jiwei Zheng and Daniel Zizzo he ran the experiment that established the condition under which a number actually moves what people pay…

Robert Trivers (1943 to 2026) was an evolutionary biologist whose papers on reciprocal altruism and on parent-offspring conflict shaped the study of social behaviour. He proposed that self-deception…

Robert Vallerand is a Canadian psychologist at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in motivational processes and optimal functioning. He has run a research…

Robert Wicklund is a co-author of A Theory of Objective Self-Awareness (1972).

Robert L. Winkler is the co-author, with Allan Murphy, of the 1977 paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C that summarised American programmes in which forecasters gave…

Robert B. Zajonc was a social psychologist and the author of "Attitudinal effects of mere exposure", published in 1968 as a monograph supplement to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology…

Cognitive neuroscientist at McGill, whose name is on both the strongest evidence in music reward research and the finding that most constrains it.