Thinkers (page 21)

Evolutionary psychologist whose three studies, covering 830 men, found no red effect on attraction.

Behavioural scientist working on sludge, and on the question of who it actually falls on.

Consumer psychologist whose study is the reason colour-in-context theory survives the collapse of its famous predictions.

Linda Henkel is an American memory researcher at Fairfield University, best known for a 2014 study in which undergraduates on a museum tour remembered fewer details of the objects they photographed…

Consumer researcher at Pennsylvania State University, first author of the 2003 studies on perceptions of price unfairness. Consumers believe selling prices are substantially above fair prices…

Lisa B. Shapira is the first author of a 2010 online trial that compared a week of self-compassionate letter writing against an optimism exercise and against a control writing task. It is the most…

Sociologist of work and health whose study is the reason this publication dropped the health argument against open-plan offices.

Psychologist at the University of Münster working on open science and on anchoring. He assembled the largest open collection of anchoring data available and used it to show that the measures used to…

Madeleine Ferrari is a clinical psychologist and academic at Australian Catholic University, working on self-compassion as a buffer against perfectionism and depression. She is first author of the…

Madhav Goyal is an internal medicine physician who led the 2014 systematic review that established, more firmly than anything before or since, how large the effects of meditation programmes actually…

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and author, best known here for The Tipping Point, 2000, and for Outliers. Two of the claims most often attached to his name need correcting, and both corrections…

Marcel Duchamp was a French-American artist, central to Dada and later to conceptual art. In 1917 he submitted a mass-produced urinal, signed "R. Mutt," to an exhibition as a sculpture titled…