Thinkers (page 22)

Marcus Credé is a psychologist at Iowa State University working on non-cognitive predictors of success and on the methodological problems that arise in that literature. He is the first author of the…

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is a developmental psychologist and first author of the most useful paper in attachment research, which is also the one least often quoted. Pooling seventy trials of…

Marianne De Wolff is first author of the 1997 meta-analysis that established how strongly caregiver sensitivity predicts attachment security. The answer, about six parts in a hundred of the…

Marilynn Brewer, social psychologist and Professor Emerita of Psychology at Ohio State University, developed optimal distinctiveness theory. Her 1991 paper argued that people carry two competing…

Marinus van IJzendoorn is a developmental psychologist at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the field's most prolific meta-analyst. If a claim in attachment research has been pooled across studies…

Economist whose review of nonlinear pricing supplies the unglamorous half of the bulk-buying story.

Mark Leary is a social psychologist at Duke University and the second author of the 1995 paper that made the need for interpersonal attachment a fundamental human motivation rather than a…

Mark Levine is Professor of Social Psychology at Lancaster University, and he sits at both ends of the bystander question. He was a co-author of the 2007 paper that took the Kitty Genovese story…

Marlene Kritz is a physical activity researcher at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria, and the first author of the largest direct comparison of group-based and individual…

Marshall McLuhan is the media theorist who argued that a medium's form, not its content, does the work on the people using it. His compressed version, that the medium is the message, is the founding…

Martin Hagger is a health psychologist at the University of California Merced who sits at both ends of the ego-depletion story. In 2010 he led the Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis of close to…

Branding consultant and author of Buyology (2008), which reported brain-imaging and brain-wave studies of consumers commissioned for the book, including claims about cigarette warnings and product…