Thinkers (page 53)

Marinus van IJzendoorn is a developmental psychologist at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the field's most prolific meta-analyst. If a claim in attachment research has been pooled across studies…

Economist whose review of nonlinear pricing supplies the unglamorous half of the bulk-buying story.

Mark Dean is an economist and the first author, with Ravindran and Stoye, of "A better test of choice overload", a working paper first posted on arXiv in 2022 and revised since. The paper reopens a…

Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist at Stanford whose 1973 paper The Strength of Weak Ties gave the social sciences the phrase weak ties. His argument was structural: acquaintances bridge…

Mark Leary is a social psychologist at Duke University and the second author of the 1995 paper that made the need for interpersonal attachment a fundamental human motivation rather than a…

Mark Lepper is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. He is the first author of the 1973 study that established the overjustification effect, and the co-author, with Sheena Iyengar as…

Mark Levine is Professor of Social Psychology at Lancaster University, and he sits at both ends of the bystander question. He was a co-author of the 2007 paper that took the Kitty Genovese story…

Mark Muraven is a psychologist who studies self-control. He was a co-author of the original 1998 ego depletion paper and first author of a 2003 study, with E. Slessareva, which found that depleted…

Markus Prior is a political scientist who, when his 2005 paper and 2007 book appeared, was at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. His paper News vs. Entertainment surveyed 2,358 U.S. residents and…

Marlene E. Turner is the first-named author of a 1992 set of three experiments on threat, cohesion and groupthink, and, with Anthony R. Pratkanis, of a 1998 review of groupthink theory and research.

Marlene Kritz is a physical activity researcher at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria, and the first author of the largest direct comparison of group-based and individual…

Marshall McLuhan is the media theorist who argued that a medium's form, not its content, does the work on the people using it. His compressed version, that the medium is the message, is the founding…