Thinkers (page 70)

Rudolf Kerschreiter is the first author of a 2008 set of three experiments showing that groups who already agree search for information one-sidedly unless they are only moderately confident and…

Rudolph Schaffer, 1926 to 2008, was a developmental psychologist at the University of Strathclyde and first author, with Peggy Emerson, of the 1964 Glasgow study. It is the earliest good test of…

Rune Høigaard is first author of the 2006 paper The relationship between group cohesion, group norms, and perceived social loafing in soccer teams, written with Reidar Säfvenbom and Finn Egil…

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born media proprietor, born in 1931, who with Barry Diller built Fox into a fourth American television network in the 1980s. Fox is the reason narrowcasting stopped…

Russell Spears is a social psychologist and co-author of two works on deindividuation. With Tom Postmes he wrote the 1998 meta-analysis Deindividuation and antinormative behavior in Psychological…

Russell Winer is a marketing professor at New York University and a co-author of both 2017 and 2019 studies in Marketing Letters that measured how concentrated customer sales are. The first found a…

Ryan McKay is a psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, and first author of the 2011 commentary "Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling" in Behavioral and Brain…

Ryan E. Rhodes is Professor in the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education at the University of Victoria and Director of the Behavioural Medicine Laboratory, which he founded there…

Sacha Altay is a researcher and the first author of the paper 'If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news', published in…

Social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, author of Foolproof and of the research programme behind the inoculation games that governments and platforms deployed. This record is specific…

Computational social scientist at Columbia Business School and author of Mindmasters (2025), a book on predicting and changing behaviour from personal data.

Sandro Sperandei is a Brazilian public-health researcher who studies physical activity adherence in unsupervised settings, which is to say in ordinary commercial gyms rather than in supervised…