Thinkers (page 3)

Andrew Elliot is a psychologist at the University of Rochester, best known outside the field as first author, with Daniela Niesta, of "Romantic red" in 2008, whose opening experiment had…

Andrew Przybylski is a psychologist at the Oxford Internet Institute, where he is director of research, and one of the small number of people whose work has genuinely changed what can responsibly be…

Psychologist and epidemiologist whose cohort study is the source of the widely quoted claim that isolation matters and loneliness does not.

Angela Duckworth is an American psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, the originator of the grit construct, perseverance of effort combined with passion for a long-term goal, and the…

Angus MacBeth is a clinical psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, working on self-compassion, psychosis and perinatal mental health. He is the first author, with Andrew Gumley, of the 2012…

Anne Scheel is a meta-scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology and first author of "An excess of positive results", published in 2021 with Mitchell Schijen and Daniel Lakens. The paper…

Consumer researcher and first author of a 2009 Psychological Science paper showing that the order in which options are tasted shapes which one people choose.

Psychologist who applied signal-detection methods to the misinformation games deployed by governments and platforms, and found they raise scepticism without improving people's ability to tell true…

Ariane Bélanger-Gravel is a health behaviour researcher at Université Laval and the first author of the meta-analysis that gives implementation intentions their real effect size in physical…

Aristotle, 384 to 322 BCE, was a Greek philosopher whose Nicomachean Ethics set out the account of virtue as a mean between extremes that still frames most Western thinking about character. Courage…

First author of the study that documented how news websites are joined easily and left with difficulty.

B. F. Skinner founded radical behaviourism, built the apparatus that made reward schedules measurable, and established that reinforcement delivered on an unpredictable schedule produces behaviour…