Thinkers (page 37)

Taiichi Ohno was the principal architect of the Toyota Production System, developed at Toyota between roughly 1948 and 1975 with Eiji Toyoda, and is generally credited as the originator of…

Talya Miron-Shatz is the first author of the 2009 paper that mapped the edges of the peak-end rule. Using large samples from the United States, France and Denmark, she found that for experiences…

Terence Mitchell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, an organisational psychologist, and the first author of the 1997 study that tracked people through…

Terry Robinson is a behavioural neuroscientist at the University of Michigan and Kent Berridge's long-running collaborator on the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. He is first author on…

The Buddha is the founder of Buddhism and the author, by tradition, of the oldest psychological hypothesis still in continuous clinical use: that suffering has a specific cause, and that the cause…

Theodore Powers is a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, working on self-criticism, perfectionism and how people pursue goals. His 2011 paper is the cleanest available…

Thomas Borkovec is an American clinical psychologist, emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, and the central figure in the research literature on worry. He developed the standard questionnaire…

Thomas Dratsch is a researcher at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne. He is the first author of "Automation bias in…

Thomas Ehring is Professor of Clinical Psychology at LMU Munich, where he holds the chair and heads the outpatient treatment centre. With Edward Watkins he set out repetitive negative thinking as a…

Social psychologist at London Business School, and one of the most productive researchers on anchoring. Two of his papers matter here: the sentencing study with Birte Englich and Fritz Strack, and…

Evolutionary psychologist working on social networks and on what happens when well-known effects are tested again.

Economist and sociologist whose The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) gave us conspicuous consumption, and whose actual argument is wider and stranger than the phrase now carries. His subject is a…