Thinkers (page 5)

Bernard Rimé is a Belgian social psychologist, emeritus professor at the University of Louvain and still active at its Psychological Sciences Research Institute. His research programme established…

Bertram Malle is Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University, working on how people explain behaviour, on moral psychology and on human-machine interaction. He was born in…

Food scientist who took the plate colour effect out of the laboratory and tested it on real diners in a working restaurant.

Betsy Sparrow is a psychologist, formerly of Columbia University, and the first author of the 2011 Science paper that gave the world the Google effect: the finding that people who expect a fact to…

Neuroscientist and senior author of the first systematic study of the dress photograph.

Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda was a Sri Lankan Theravada monk and Pali scholar, born on 10 July 1940 and died on 22 February 2018. His 1971 monograph Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought gave…

Bibb Latané is the social psychologist who, with John Darley, ran the bystander intervention experiments in the late 1960s, and who went on to build a general theory out of what those experiments…

Social psychologist at the University of Cologne, and first author of the study in which experienced legal professionals threw dice before deciding a sentence, and the dice moved the sentence.

Brandon Weiss is a clinical psychologist working on anxiety and trauma, and co-author with Peter Norton of the 2009 Courage Measure study, the paper that put a self-report courage scale against an…

Brian O'Doherty was an Irish-American art critic, artist and novelist who trained as a physician before turning to writing about art. His 1976 Artforum essays, later collected as Inside the White…

Brian M. Sweis is the first author of the 2018 paper in Science reporting that mice, rats and humans all show a sunk-cost pattern on matched foraging tasks. Once an animal or a person had committed…

Brian Wansink ran a food and consumer behaviour laboratory at Cornell whose studies on serving sizes, plates and packaging became some of the most widely repeated results in popular psychology. This…