Thinkers (page 38)

Tim Spector is an epidemiologist, the public face of the PREDICT research programme and a co-founder of ZOE, the company built on it. He is the last author on the 2020 Nature Medicine paper and a…

Tim Wildschut is Professor of Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Southampton and, with Constantine Sedikides, the co-architect of the modern experimental study of nostalgia. He…

Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia who coined the term net neutrality and later worked on competition policy inside the White House. For this site he matters as the historian of attention as a…

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…

Urs Gasser is a legal scholar who studies how societies govern digital technology. With Viktor Mayer-Schönberger he wrote Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, published by Princeton…

Utpal Dholakia is a management researcher. On his 2006 paper in the Journal of Marketing Research he is listed as Assistant Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of…