Thinkers (page 41)

Johannes Hofer, 1669 to 1752, was a Swiss medical student and later a physician who coined the word nostalgia in a dissertation at Basel in 1688. He built it from the Greek nostos, homecoming, and…

John Bargh is a social psychologist at Yale and the central figure in behavioural social priming, the claim that a brief incidental cue changes what a person subsequently does. Two of his best-known…

John Bowlby, 1907 to 1990, was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who argued that a baby's drive to keep a responsive adult close is built in rather than learned. The reasoning was…

John Braithwaite is an Australian criminologist and regulatory scholar at the Australian National University, and the author of Crime, Shame and Reintegration (Cambridge University Press, 1989)…

John Cacioppo is a psychologist who co-authored Emotional Contagion with Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson, and who was the second author of a 2001 study of processing ease and positive feeling…

John Darley, 1938 to 2018, was an American social psychologist who, with Bibb Latané, ran the experiments that established the bystander effect. The experiments were prompted by newspaper coverage…

John Protzko is a psychologist at Central Connecticut State University and first author of the paper that announced psychology's reforms had worked. Published in Nature Human Behaviour in November…

John Sweller is an Australian educational psychologist, emeritus at the University of New South Wales, who set out cognitive load theory in 1988. The theory holds that learning is limited by how…

John Tierney is an American science journalist and writer. He spent more than two decades as a reporter and columnist at The New York Times, and in August 2011 wrote the Times article Do You Suffer…

Duke decision researcher who is the second author of the 1982 paper establishing the decoy effect, and whose career has centred on how people make decisions and how that might be improved.

Jolanda Jetten is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, according to the university's expert profile. She is the co-author, with Matthew Hornsey, of The Individual Within the…

Jon McNeill is an American business executive and the author of The Algorithm, written with Stephen Baker and published in 2026. He was President at Tesla from September 2015 to February 2018 and…