Thinkers (page 122)

Willem W. A. Sleegers is a researcher and first author of the 2024 Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science commentary on what a failed replication allows one to conclude, and an…

William Samuelson is the first author of the 1988 paper, written with Richard Zeckhauser, that introduced the term status quo bias. He is also, with Max Bazerman, an author of a 1983 experiment on…

William Graziano appears on this site as first author of the 1996 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology paper on agreeableness and reactions to interpersonal conflict.

William Harbaugh is an economist at the University of Oregon. He is first author of the 2010 Economic Journal paper that tested the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes under two measurement methods…

William Hirst appears on this site as first author of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology review of remembering in conversations.

William Kunst-Wilson is a psychologist and the first author of Affective discrimination of stimuli that cannot be recognized, written with Robert Zajonc and published in Science in 1980. The report…

William Paley bought a failing radio chain in 1928 and turned it into CBS, which held the American ratings lead from 1955 to 1976. He matters to the psychology of attention because of what he…

William B. Swann Jr. is the co-author, with Mark Snyder, of the 1978 studies on hypothesis testing in social interaction. In four investigations, participants chose interview questions to test…

William von Hippel is a social psychologist and Robert Trivers's co-author on the 2011 article "The evolution and psychology of self-deception" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He was also an…

Willibald Ruch is a researcher and co-author of the 2011 paper on adult playfulness and character strengths.

Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist at Brown University who built the instrument the meditation literature was missing. Trials of mindfulness programmes had long asked…

Wilma Bainbridge appears on this site as senior author of the 2022 Psychological Science paper on the visual Mandela effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories.