Thinkers (page 16)

James Flynn, 1934 to 2020, was a moral philosopher and political scientist based in New Zealand, at the University of Otago, who documented one of the most awkward findings in twentieth-century…

James Pennebaker is the social psychologist who established expressive writing: write about an emotional upheaval for fifteen to twenty minutes a day across several consecutive days, and physical…

Co-author of the study that tested dark patterns on representative samples rather than describing them.

Psychologist at the University of Toronto and long-standing collaborator of Peter Herman on restraint and the outside regulation of eating. Co-author of the 2003 review of how the presence of others…

Jared Torre is a psychologist at UCLA and the first author of the 2018 review that is the standard synthesis of the research on putting feelings into words. The review is routinely cited as Matthew…

Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the best-known advocate of the argument that smartphones damaged a generation. Her case, made in the Atlantic in September…

Parisian physician under whom Freud studied, and whose work on hysteria and hypnosis stands at the start of the history of psychoanalysis.

Jeffrey M. Brunstrom works on appetite at the University of Bristol and is the researcher behind expected satiation and expected satiety. Expected satiation is how full you expect a given portion to…

Jeffrey Sherman is a social psychologist at the University of California, Davis, and first author of the sharpest defence social priming has: that the problem was never the idea, it was the…

Jelte Wicherts is a methodologist at Tilburg University and the third author of the 2015 Cyberball meta-analysis. His own field is the reliability of psychological research itself: data sharing…

Marketing scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, co-author with Byron Sharp and Charles Graham of the 2019 working paper on the 60/20 law, and co-author of conference work on how many heavy…

Decision researcher and first author of the 2019 paper that reported algorithm appreciation.