Thinkers (page 23)

Martin Seligman is an American psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known first for learned helplessness and later as the founder figure of positive psychology, which he launched during…

Mary Ainsworth, 1913 to 1999, built the instrument that made attachment measurable, and identified the caregiver behaviour that causes it. The Strange Situation is hers, the secure, avoidant and…

Mary Main is a developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who added the fourth attachment pattern and built the interview that moved attachment research into adulthood…

Maryanne Wolf is a cognitive neuroscientist and reading researcher, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA and formerly director of the Center for Reading…

Matthew Killingsworth is a psychologist at the Wharton School who, as a doctoral student at Harvard, built the instrument that turned a philosophical question into a measurable one. His…

Matthew Lieberman is a social neuroscientist at UCLA, where he directs the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He is one of the founders of the field and the author of Social: Why Our Brains…

Sociologist at Princeton, first author of the artificial music market that showed social influence raises both the inequality and the unpredictability of which songs succeed. The design, not the…

Matthew Walker is a sleep scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the senior author on the 2007 study that scanned people after a night without sleep and found the amygdala's…

Psychologist and methodologist. First author of the 2022 reanalysis that found no evidence for an overall nudge effect once publication bias is modelled directly.

American cosmetic surgeon (10 March 1899 to 7 April 1975) whose 1960 book Psycho-Cybernetics is the source of the popular 21-day figure.

Megan Gunnar is a developmental psychobiologist at the University of Minnesota who studies how stress physiology develops across childhood and adolescence, and how relationships regulate it. Her…

Economist and first author of a 2015 study showing that the weather on the day of purchase shapes which cars people buy.