Thinkers (page 19)

Juliana Breines is a social and health psychologist at the University of Rhode Island. With Serena Chen she ran the four experiments that are the best available answer to the standard objection to…

Psychologist whose meta-analyses established that social connection predicts mortality, and who later found the split most people quote does not appear.

Julius Frankenbach is a psychologist and meta-analyst at Universität des Saarlandes, and first author of the 2021 meta-analysis that pooled 116 studies of nostalgia's functions and 39 of its…

Researcher who studied, in simulation and in a large field experiment, whether recommender systems widen or narrow the range of what people buy.

Katharina Kircanski is a clinical scientist at the US National Institute of Mental Health. She is first author of the 2012 study that took the research on naming feelings out of the brain scanner…

Behavioural scientist at the Wharton School, known for research on habits and on how to make good behaviour easier to start and keep. She appears on this site as co-author of the study that…

Kathleen Vohs is a consumer psychologist at the University of Minnesota and a long-standing collaborator of Roy Baumeister on the strength model of self-control. In 2021 she led the largest test the…

Keisuke Takano is first author, with Yoshihiko Tanno, of the 2011 study that established how rumination moves across a day. Rumination was higher in the morning, lowest in mid-afternoon, and…

B. Keith Payne is a social psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and first author of the best evidence that primes do influence behaviour. Six experiments, 988…

Kent Berridge is a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who, with his long-running collaborator Terry Robinson, showed that wanting a reward and liking it are not the same brain event…

Kevin Ochsner is a social neuroscientist at Columbia University, where he chairs the psychology department and directs the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory. He is one of the…

Writer and co-author, with Robin Hanson, of The Elephant in the Brain, a book arguing that many everyday choices serve motives we would rather not state.