Thinkers (page 12)

Einat Levy-Gigi is an Israeli researcher at Bar-Ilan University working on emotion regulation, stress and trauma resilience. She is first author of a 2022 study which found that the effect of naming…

Elizabeth Loftus is a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, and the researcher who established that memory is reconstructed rather than retrieved. Her best-known experiment…

Psychologist at Harvard University, co-author with Alia Crum of the 2007 study in which hotel housekeepers told their work was good exercise showed improvements in weight, blood pressure and body…

Social psychologist and first author of the 1966 pratfall study, in which a brilliant quiz contestant who spilled coffee was rated more likeable.

Emile Durkheim, 1858 to 1917, was one of the founders of sociology, and the person who named the thing the live-events industry now sells. In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) he argued…

Epictetus, born into slavery in about 50 CE and dead in about 135, taught Stoicism at a school in Nicopolis in western Greece. He wrote nothing at all. Everything attributed to him was recorded by…

Epicurus, c. 341 to 270 BCE, was a Greek philosopher who founded the school known as the Garden in Athens and defined pleasure not as gratification but as the absence of pain. The move sounds like…

Psychologist at Columbia Business School. First author of the 2003 Science policy forum comparing organ donation consent under opt-in and opt-out systems.

Eric Kandel is an Austrian-American neuroscientist at Columbia University who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for establishing the physiological basis of memory storage in…

Eric Robinson is an appetite researcher at the University of Liverpool and the most useful sceptic in the field of eating behaviour. He pooled the evidence for an effect, then published failures to…

Marketing researcher, co-author with Jonah Berger of the 2011 study that separated immediate from ongoing word of mouth. That separation is the finding, and it is the reason this site cites the…

Erik Nook is a clinical psychologist at Princeton University, where he directs the Logic of Emotion Lab. He is first author of the 2021 paper that is the strongest single counterweight in the…