Thinkers (page 65)

R. Matthew Montoya is a psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Dayton, as listed on his 2017 paper in Psychological Bulletin. He is the first author of "A re-examination…

Memory researcher who in 1995 recovered and replicated what Hedwig von Restorff actually did in her 1933 isolation experiments.

R. Richard Wohl is the co-author, with Donald Horton, of the 1956 paper in the journal Psychiatry that introduced the term para-social interaction. The paper's subtitle, observations on intimacy at…

Rachel Manning is a psychologist working on helping behaviour and the first author of the 2007 paper in American Psychologist that took the Kitty Genovese story back to the trial record, the police…

Rael Dawtry is the first author of the 2020 meta-analysis of victim derogation experiments, published in Personality and Social Psychology Review, which pooled 55 studies and found a small average…

Rainer Greifeneder is a psychologist listed at the University of Mannheim on the 2009 Psychology & Marketing paper on the too-much-choice effect. He is a co-author, with Benjamin Scheibehenne and…

Rakefet Ackerman studies how people judge their own learning and decide how much effort to give it. On this site she matters for one finding in particular: part of the paper advantage in reading…

Ran Kivetz is a marketing researcher at Columbia Business School. He is the first author of "The goal-gradient hypothesis resurrected", published in the Journal of Marketing Research in 2006, which…

Randy Cronk is a psychologist and the fourth author of Mitchell, Thompson, Peterson and Cronk, 1997, the study that tracked people through three real events with ratings taken before, during and…

Ray Nickerson, whose byline is Raymond S. Nickerson, is a psychologist at Tufts University and the author of the 1998 review Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises.

Raymond S. Nickerson is a psychologist who wrote the 1998 review Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises, published in Review of General Psychology. The review gathers experimental…

Researcher and first author of the 2008 JAMA study in which a placebo described as expensive was reported to relieve pain better than a cheap one.