Thinkers (page 62)

Patrick Wyatt is the first author of the 2021 paper in Nature Metabolism reporting that it is the dip in blood sugar a couple of hours after a meal, rather than the earlier spike, that goes with…

Evolutionary biologist who tested whether Dunbar's number can be derived the way it is said to be derived. It cannot.

Paul Caldo is first author of the 2023 paper that asked, with the analysis fixed in advance, how much a baby's Strange Situation classification actually predicts about the adult that baby becomes…

Paul Chandler is the co-author, with John Sweller, of the 1991 Cognition and Instruction paper Cognitive load theory and the format of instruction, which reported experiments on split-source and…

Psychologist and pioneer of aviation human factors, first author of the 1947 analysis of 460 pilot-error experiences with aircraft controls.

Paul Grice was a philosopher of language. He is credited with systematising the rules of cooperative conversation, now called the Gricean maxims, and with the term implicature for what a speaker…

Paul Herr is a consumer psychologist and Professor of Marketing at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. He is first author, with Frank Kardes and John Kim, of the 1991 Journal of Consumer…

Paul D. MacLean, 1913 to 2007, was an American physician and neuroscientist who proposed the triune brain through the 1960s and set it out in full in The Triune Brain in Evolution (Plenum, 1990). He…

Paul Rozin is a long-standing psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his work on disgust and on the cultural psychology of food. On this site he matters for one study. In 1998…

Paul Samuelson is the economist whose coin-toss problem opens the account of broad framing in Thinking, Fast and Slow. In the book's telling, a friend would not accept a single bet to lose $100 or…

Paul Seli is a cognitive scientist at Duke University who works on mind wandering, and in particular on whether the field's headline numbers mean what they are taken to mean. His argument, made with…

Pedro J. Teixeira is a Portuguese exercise psychologist and professor at the University of Lisbon. He is the first author of Teixeira, Carraça, Markland, Silva and Ryan (2012), the systematic review…