Thinkers (page 120)

Veronika Job is a psychologist at the University of Vienna and the first author of "Ego Depletion, Is It All in Your Head?", published in Psychological Science in 2010 with Carol Dweck and Gregory…

Vicky Arnold appears on this site as first author of the 2000 Accounting & Finance paper on the effect of experience and complexity on order and recency bias in decision making by professional…

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

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is a scholar of internet governance at the University of Oxford. With Urs Gasser he wrote Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, published by Princeton…

Vilfredo Pareto (1848 to 1923) was an economist and sociologist who held the chair of economics at the University of Lausanne. He is known for an income law and for the idea of Pareto optimality…

Virgil Abloh was a designer trained as an architect and civil engineer who founded Off-White and became artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear in 2018. He died in 2021, aged 41. He left no book…

Virginia Simmelhag appears on this site as second author, with John Staddon, of the 1971 Psychological Review reexamination of the pigeon superstition experiment.

Psychologist at the University of Minnesota, first author of the three experiments showing that activating status motives leads people to choose green products over more luxurious non-green ones. It…

Vykinta Kligyte is a researcher and co-author of the 2011 Cognition & Emotion meta-analytic review of the influence of discrete emotions on judgement and decision-making.

W. C. H. Prentice is the author of The interruption of tasks, a critical review published in Psychological Review in 1944. The review gathers the research that followed Maria Ovsiankina's 1928…

W. David Pierce is a researcher at the University of Alberta and the co-author, with Judy Cameron, of a 1994 meta-analysis in the Review of Educational Research and, with Cameron and Katherine…

Waleed Muhanna is a researcher and co-author of the 2008 Judgment and Decision Making paper on the duration of physical contact and the valuation of objects.