Thinkers (page 20)

Kim Malone Scott is an author and executive coach, and the author of Radical Candor, first published by St Martin's Press in March 2017 and issued in a fully revised and updated edition in 2019. The…

Kipling Williams built the modern experimental study of ostracism and the instrument that made it possible. Cyberball is an online ball-tossing game in which two software players simply stop…

Kitty Genovese was murdered in the Kew Gardens neighbourhood of Queens, New York, in the early hours of 13 March 1964. Two weeks later the New York Times reported that 38 of her neighbours had…

Kristin Neff introduced self-compassion to research psychology in 2003, in two papers published in the same volume of Self and Identity: one setting out the idea, one building the questionnaire that…

Psychologist, first author of the 2014 experiments testing whether people treat common knowledge as a distinct cognitive category that licenses coordinated action. The same payoffs broadcast over a…

Consumer finance researcher and first author of the largest synthesis so far of whether paying without cash raises spending.

Cognitive neuroscientist who ran the rare thing in this field: a causal test.

Developmental psychologist, first author of the 2018 study asking when the IKEA effect appears in childhood and what drives it. Her second study found the effect not moderated by how much effort…

Lavinia Marin is a philosopher of technology at Delft University of Technology and a co-author of the 2024 Topoi paper that treats social media platforms as attentional scaffolds. It is the…

Social psychologist at Northumbria University. First author of the 2014 panel study comparing organ donation across forty-eight countries.

Leigh Thompson is an organisational psychologist at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, best known for her work on negotiation and teams. On this site she appears as second…

Leon Festinger, 1919 to 1989, was an American social psychologist and one of the founders of the experimental tradition in the field. Two theories carry his name. Social comparison, from 1954, holds…