Thinkers (page 52)

Marcel Duchamp was a French-American artist, central to Dada and later to conceptual art. In 1917 he submitted a mass-produced urinal, signed "R. Mutt," to an exhibition as a sculpture titled…

Marcin Zajenkowski is the second author of Gignac and Zajenkowski (2020), "The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact", published in Intelligence. This page is short because the…

Marcus Credé is a psychologist at Iowa State University working on non-cognitive predictors of success and on the methodological problems that arise in that literature. He is the first author of the…

Margaret Campbell is a marketing researcher and first author, with Amna Kirmani, of the 2000 Journal of Consumer Research study of when consumers use persuasion knowledge on a salesperson. They…

Maria Hartwig is a psychologist who studies lying detection and investigative interviewing. With Charles Bond she wrote the 2011 lens-model meta-analysis of human lie judgments, which found that…

Maria Ovsiankina was a psychologist whose 1928 paper in Psychologische Forschung reported that people who are interrupted in a task tend to go back and finish it when they get the chance. The…

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is a developmental psychologist and first author of the most useful paper in attachment research, which is also the one least often quoted. Pooling seventy trials of…

Marian Friestad is a marketing researcher and Professor Emerita of Marketing at the University of Oregon. With Peter Wright she wrote the 1994 Journal of Consumer Research paper that set out the…

Mariana Castillo is a researcher and first author of two 2022 papers titled Save the best for last.

Marianne De Wolff is first author of the 1997 meta-analysis that established how strongly caregiver sensitivity predicts attachment security. The answer, about six parts in a hundred of the…

Marijn Meijers is co-author, with Rob Nelissen, of the 2011 paper Social benefits of luxury brands as costly signals of wealth and status.

Marilynn Brewer, social psychologist and Professor Emerita of Psychology at Ohio State University, developed optimal distinctiveness theory. Her 1991 paper argued that people carry two competing…