Thinkers (page 34)

Writer and broadcaster, author of Technology Is Not the Problem (2024), which argues that personalising technology spread because our sense of who we are had already shrunk, not the reverse.

Social psychologist at the University of Virginia, co-author of the 1977 review on verbal reports, and of later work on self-knowledge and why people are poor predictors of their own reactions.

Tina Payne Bryson is an American psychotherapist, a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate from the University of Southern California, and the founder of The Center for Connection in…

Author of Collective Illusions (2022), which argues that groups often enact what few members want because each assumes the others want it.

Ulli Zessin is a German psychologist and the first author of the 2015 pooled analysis relating self-compassion to wellbeing across 79 samples and more than sixteen thousand people. It is the study…

Economist and first author of "The Bidder's Curse" (2011), which found eBay auctions often ending above a fixed price shown on the same page.

Uri Simonsohn is a behavioural scientist at ESADE Business School, a co-founder of the Data Colada blog and of AsPredicted, and one of the field's least forgiving methodological critics. His…

Economist whose work with Rudolf Kerschbamer formalised credence goods, the category of thing you cannot judge before buying or after using. Their 2011 experiment with 936 participants tested four…

Cognitive neuroscientist who had people bid real money for music they had never heard, while in a scanner.

Sensory neuroscientist and first author of the study that found the cutlery you eat with changes the taste of the food.

Vera Vine is a clinical psychologist working on emotion awareness, emotion vocabulary and emotion regulation in young people. She is the first author of the 2020 analysis that asked whether people…

Verena Michalski is a researcher and the third author of Gollwitzer, Sheeran, Michalski and Seifert, 2009, in Psychological Science, the paper reporting that identity-related intentions noticed by…