Thinkers (page 68)

Robert E. Larzelere is a psychologist whose 2005 paper lists the Psychology Department of the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. With Brett R. Kuhn he…

Robert Rosenthal is the psychologist whose name is attached to the Pygmalion effect. With Lenore Jacobson he ran the Oak School study in which teachers were told that randomly chosen pupils were…

Robert S. Baron is the author of the 2005 chapter So right it's wrong: Groupthink and the ubiquitous nature of polarized group decision making, in the series Advances in Experimental Social…

Behavioural economist at the University of East Anglia. With Jiwei Zheng and Daniel Zizzo he ran the experiment that established the condition under which a number actually moves what people pay…

Robert Trivers (1943 to 2026) was an evolutionary biologist whose papers on reciprocal altruism and on parent-offspring conflict shaped the study of social behaviour. He proposed that self-deception…

Robert Vallerand is a Canadian psychologist at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in motivational processes and optimal functioning. He has run a research…

Robert L. Winkler is the co-author, with Allan Murphy, of the 1977 paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C that summarised American programmes in which forecasters gave…

Robert B. Zajonc was a social psychologist and the author of "Attitudinal effects of mere exposure", published in 1968 as a monograph supplement to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology…

Cognitive neuroscientist at McGill, whose name is on both the strongest evidence in music reward research and the finding that most constrains it.

Robin Dunbar is Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, best known for Dunbar's number: the finding that human social ties sort…

Robyn E. Wootton, at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit in Bristol, is first and corresponding author of the study that supplies the key negative result in this area. Her two-sample bidirectional…

Rocio Garcia-Retamero is the first author, with Mirta Galesic and Gerd Gigerenzer, of the 2010 Medical Decision Making paper Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect? The paper reports two…