Thinkers (page 116)

Theodore Powers is a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, working on self-criticism, perfectionism and how people pursue goals. His 2011 paper is the cleanest available…

Thomas Borkovec is an American clinical psychologist, emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, and the central figure in the research literature on worry. He developed the standard questionnaire…

Thomas Dratsch is a researcher at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne. He is the first author of "Automation bias in…

Thomas Ehring is Professor of Clinical Psychology at LMU Munich, where he holds the chair and heads the outpatient treatment centre. With Edward Watkins he set out repetitive negative thinking as a…

Thomas Gilovich is a psychologist at Cornell University and an author of the 2000 paper that named the spotlight effect, with Victoria Husted Medvec and Kenneth Savitsky.

Social psychologist at London Business School, and one of the most productive researchers on anchoring. Two of his papers matter here: the sentencing study with Birte Englich and Fritz Strack, and…

Thomas Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School and is affiliated with the Shorenstein Center. His 2000 report Doing Well and Doing Good analysed…

Evolutionary psychologist working on social networks and on what happens when well-known effects are tested again.

Thomas Schubert appears on this site as co-author of the 2019 Emotion paper on kama muta and of the 2021 study of tears and support intentions.

Thomas Valente is a researcher and co-author of the Marketing Science paper on opinion leadership and social contagion in new product diffusion.

Economist and sociologist whose The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) gave us conspicuous consumption, and whose actual argument is wider and stranger than the phrase now carries. His subject is a…

Thorsten Pachur is the first author of "How do people judge risks: Availability heuristic, affect heuristic, or both?", published with Ralph Hertwig and Florian Steinmann in the Journal of…