Thinkers (page 26)

Pablo Delgado is a researcher in reading and educational psychology and the first author of the meta-analysis that settled, as far as anything in this argument is settled, whether people understand…

Paschal Sheeran is a health psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose subject is the intention-behaviour gap: the distance between deciding to do something and doing it…

Patricia Greenfield is an American developmental psychologist, distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, whose subject is how cultural and…

Patrick Wyatt is the first author of the 2021 paper in Nature Metabolism reporting that it is the dip in blood sugar a couple of hours after a meal, rather than the earlier spike, that goes with…

Evolutionary biologist who tested whether Dunbar's number can be derived the way it is said to be derived. It cannot.

Paul Caldo is first author of the 2023 paper that asked, with the analysis fixed in advance, how much a baby's Strange Situation classification actually predicts about the adult that baby becomes…

Psychologist and pioneer of aviation human factors, first author of the 1947 analysis of 460 pilot-error experiences with aircraft controls.

Paul Rozin is a long-standing psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his work on disgust and on the cultural psychology of food. On this site he matters for one study. In 1998…

Paul Seli is a cognitive scientist at Duke University who works on mind wandering, and in particular on whether the field's headline numbers mean what they are taken to mean. His argument, made with…

Pedro J. Teixeira is a Portuguese exercise psychologist and professor at the University of Lisbon. He is the first author of Teixeira, Carraça, Markland, Silva and Ryan (2012), the systematic review…

Peter Ayton is a decision researcher and the co-author, with Hal Arkes, of the 1999 review in Psychological Bulletin that asked whether humans are less rational than other animals when it comes to…

Applied mathematician working on complex systems and social contagion, co-author of the artificial music market experiment.