Thinkers (page 25)

Natalie M. Golaszewski is a behavioural epidemiologist and first author of the 2022 study that most writing about group exercise leans on, including the first draft of article 10. Her survey of 506…

Psychologist whose preregistered replication removed the best-known rescue of the ego depletion effect.

Cognitive psychologist whose replications of the cocktail party study show how often, and for whom, one's own name breaks through.

Psychologist whose 1959 dichotic listening study found that one's own name breaks through a message one has been told to ignore.

Nicholas Carr is an American writer on technology and culture, formerly executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, and the author of The Shallows (2010), the book that founded the modern…

Nicola Petrocchi is an Italian psychologist at John Cabot University in Rome, and the founder of Compassionate Mind Italia. He works on the physiology of compassion and on compassion-focused…

Public health researcher whose meta-analysis put numbers on the cardiovascular side of social connection, and who named the gap that limits all advice in the area.

Nikolaos Ntoumanis is Professor of Motivation Science at the University of Southern Denmark, where he co-directs the Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Change. He is the first author of the…

Nir Eyal is a behavioural designer and former lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, best known for two books that argue opposite sides of the…

Noam Mairon is the first author of the 2020 study that tested whether attending to something alongside another person amplifies attention and memory, and found that it does not. The paper matters…

Health behaviour researcher who led a 2016 randomised trial showing that pictorial cigarette warnings raised quit attempts.

Norbert Schwarz is a social psychologist at the University of Southern California whose ease-of-retrieval work changed what the availability heuristic is a claim about. The original account said…