Thinkers (page 28)

  • Priya Raghubir

    Marketing researcher whose 2008 "Monopoly money" studies showed that the form a payment takes changes how much people spend.

  • Psyche Loui

    Neuroscientist of music and the brain who looked at the wiring behind musical reward and found it varies.

  • R. Reed Hunt

    Memory researcher who in 1995 recovered and replicated what Hedwig von Restorff actually did in her 1933 isolation experiments.

  • Rachel Manning

    Rachel Manning is a psychologist working on helping behaviour and the first author of the 2007 paper in American Psychologist that took the Kitty Genovese story back to the trial record, the police…

  • Randy Cronk

    Randy Cronk is a psychologist and the fourth author of Mitchell, Thompson, Peterson and Cronk, 1997, the study that tracked people through three real events with ratings taken before, during and…

  • Rebecca Waber

    Researcher and first author of the 2008 JAMA study in which a placebo described as expensive was reported to relieve pain better than a cheap one.

  • Richard Dawkins

    Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. He is on this site for one narrow reason, and the page is kept narrow to it. With Tamsin R. Carlisle he published a short 1976 note…

  • Richard E. Lucas

    Psychologist and first author of a 2013 study of more than a million Americans that found the weather does not reliably affect life satisfaction.

  • Richard Gonzalez

    Richard Gonzalez is a quantitative psychologist at the University of Michigan and the second author of the 2003 analysis that pulled rumination apart into two different habits, brooding and…

  • Richard Klein

    Richard A. Klein is the first author of the original Many Labs project, which took thirteen well-known psychological effects and ran every one of them again in thirty-six separate samples on more…

  • Richard Larrick

    Richard P. Larrick is a decision researcher at Duke University and the first author of a 1990 study on whether people can be taught to reason about costs and benefits in ordinary life. They can…

  • Richard Nisbett

    Social psychologist, first author of the 1977 review arguing that people have little or no direct introspective access to higher order cognitive processes, and that their reports on those processes…