Thinkers (page 11)

Psychologist and first author of the 2019 preregistered direct replication of the lab coat attention effect.

Dianne Tice is a social psychologist at the University of Queensland and a co-author of the 1998 experiment that introduced ego depletion, the idea that self-control draws on a finite resource which…

Recommender systems researcher and first author of a 2019 review of what recommendations do for a business, as opposed to how accurate they are in a laboratory.

Dilip Soman is a behavioural scientist whose 2001 work asked whether sunk costs of time behave like sunk costs of money. A sunk cost is something you have already spent and cannot get back, and the…

Donald Redelmeier is the first author on both of the medical studies people quote when they explain the peak-end rule, the finding that our memory of an unpleasant episode tracks its worst moment…

Behavioural economist who gave the pain of paying its name and tested whether paying by card raises what people will pay.

Economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for work in game theory and learning in games. He appears on this site for a smaller paper: the re-examination, with David Levine…

Sociologist and network scientist, co-author of the artificial music market experiment and a long-standing critic of explanations of success constructed after the fact.

Petroleum engineer and first author of the 1971 paper credited with the first discussion of the winner's curse.

Edward L. Deci, born 1942, is an American psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Rochester. With Richard Ryan he originated self-determination theory in the 1970s and developed it…

Edward L. Thorndike, 1874 to 1949, was an American psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University, whose work founded the experimental study of learning and of transfer of training. With…

Edward Watkins is a clinical psychologist at the University of Exeter, where he holds a personal chair and directs the Mood Disorders Centre and a laboratory devoted to repetitive thought. He built…