Thinkers (page 46)

Behavioural scientist at the Wharton School, known for research on habits and on how to make good behaviour easier to start and keep. She appears on this site as co-author of the study that…

Katherine Woollett is a neuroscientist who worked with Eleanor Maguire at University College London on the London taxi-driver studies. She is first author of the 2011 Current Biology paper that…

Kathleen Vohs is a consumer psychologist at the University of Minnesota and a long-standing collaborator of Roy Baumeister on the strength model of self-control. In 2021 she led the largest test the…

Katja Gelbrich is a marketing researcher at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt whose work, much of it with Holger Roschk, supplies the meta-analytic backbone of service recovery…

Keisuke Takano is first author, with Yoshihiko Tanno, of the 2011 study that established how rumination moves across a day. Rumination was higher in the morning, lowest in mid-afternoon, and…

Keith Dear is the first author, with Kevin Dutton and Elaine Fox, of a 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior that linked eye images to a 35 per cent reduction in…

B. Keith Payne is a social psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and first author of the best evidence that primes do influence behaviour. Six experiments, 988…

Kellen Mrkva is a consumer researcher and the first author of "Moderating loss aversion: loss aversion has moderators, but reports of its death are greatly exaggerated", published in the Journal of…

Kelly Jakubowski is a music psychology researcher and first author of the 2020 Music & Science study of reminiscence bumps for music-related memories in adulthood.

Kenan Arifoğlu is an operations researcher at the UCL School of Management and the first author, with Sarang Deo and Seyed Iravani, of the 2020 Marketing Science model of markdowns in seasonal…

Kenneth Savitsky is a psychologist and the first author of the 2011 paper in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that introduced the closeness-communication bias. The paper reported three…

Kent Berridge is a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who, with his long-running collaborator Terry Robinson, showed that wanting a reward and liking it are not the same brain event…