Thinkers (page 2)

Alex Todorov is a psychologist who studies the judgments people form from faces in a fraction of a second, and what those judgments go on to predict. His best-known result is that ratings of…

Psychologist at Stanford University whose research concerns how mindsets and expectations relate to health, including the 2007 hotel housekeepers study, the 2011 milkshake study and the 2017…

Amber Rae is an American writer and the author of Choose Wonder Over Worry, published by St Martin's Essentials in 2018, and of The Answers Are Within You. She describes herself in the book as a…

Cognitive psychologist, and first author of the 1974 paper that put anchoring on the record. He worked with Daniel Kahneman on prospect theory and on the whole heuristics-and-biases programme. He…

Amy Orben is an experimental psychologist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, and the first author of the single most useful study in the screen-time argument. Orben and…

Anat Perry is a psychologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who works on empathy and social cognitive neuroscience. On the 2020 shared-attention study this site relies on, she is the senior…

Anders Ericsson, 1947 to 2020, was a Swedish-born psychologist, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, and the man who built the research programme on…

Management researcher whose systematic review put the open-plan finding inside a wider literature, and gave the cost argument its bill.

Andrea Niles is a clinical psychologist, now in practice in California rather than in academia. Her 2015 study, carried out at UCLA and followed by a postdoctoral position in psychiatry at UCSF…

Andrea Seifert is a co-author of Gollwitzer, Sheeran, Michalski and Seifert (2009), published in Psychological Science, the four-experiment paper on what happens to an intention once other people…

Psychophysiologist whose systematic review is the reason anyone can claim a mechanism for slow breathing at all.

Marketing scientist whose work on repeat buying underlies much of what is now taught about brand loyalty. He extended the double jeopardy pattern, first described by William McPhee in 1963, to brand…