Thinkers (page 31)

Serena Chen is a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where she chairs the psychology department. She works on the self and identity, on authenticity, on power in close…

Behavioural scientist whose paper asked where the attraction effect actually operates and found the answer much narrower than its citation count implied.

Shaun McNiff is University Professor Emeritus at Lesley University, where he taught the institution's first art therapy course in 1973 and established its Expressive Therapies graduate programmes in…

Shauna M. Burke is a professor in the School of Health Studies at Western University in Ontario, working on health behaviour, childhood obesity and group dynamics in physical activity. She is a…

Shelley Taylor is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA and the lead author of the 2000 paper that named tend-and-befriend: the finding that affiliation and caregiving are themselves a…

Sidney Blatt was an American clinical psychologist at Yale, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, who set out the two-polarities model of depression: one form organised around the fear of…

Austrian neurologist, 1856 to 1939, who built psychoanalysis out of clinical work in Vienna and whose standing as a scientist has been contested since his lifetime.

Consumer researcher at Columbia Business School, first author of the red sneakers effect: under some conditions, visibly breaking a dress code raises what observers infer about your status and…

Simon Kemp is a psychologist and the first author, with Christopher Burt and Laura Furneaux, of the only direct test of the peak-end rule on an actual holiday. Forty-nine students going away for…

Economist who described what shoppers do when the large size is the expensive one, which is largely nothing.

Solomon Asch ran the line-judgment studies of the early 1950s, the standard demonstration of conformity in every introductory course since. He designed them to demonstrate independence, and read his…

Stéphane Doyen is a cognitive scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the first author of the 2012 replication of the elderly-priming walking study. With automated infrared timing and 120…