Thinkers (page 73)

Sinan Aral is a researcher at MIT Sloan and the senior author of A causal test of the strength of weak ties, published in Science in 2022 with Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor…

Slava Kalyuga is the first author of the 2003 Educational Psychologist review The expertise reversal effect, written with Paul Ayres, Paul Chandler and John Sweller. The review reports that…

Economist who described what shoppers do when the large size is the expensive one, which is largely nothing.

Solomon Asch ran the line-judgment studies of the early 1950s, the standard demonstration of conformity in every introductory course since. He designed them to demonstrate independence, and read his…

Sonja Kunz is first author of 'Fifty shades of food', a 2020 study in Psychology & Marketing that found more saturated packaging was rated healthier, tastier and fresher. She wrote it with Simona…

Sophie S. Havighurst is a researcher at Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, at the University of Melbourne. She is the first author of a 2010 paper in the Journal of…

Stanislav Treger is a relationships researcher and the co-author, with Susan Sprecher, of the 2015 Personal Relationships paper on turn-taking self-disclosure. He is listed with DePaul University on…

Stanley Cohen (1942 to 2013) was a South African-born British sociologist and criminologist whose 1972 book Folk Devils and Moral Panics gave the moral panic and the folk devil their standard form…

Stephan Meyerding is co-author, with Saskia Buse, of the 2025 Journal of Agriculture and Food Research paper on packaging colour, choice and health perception for chickpeas and ravioli in Germany…

Stéphane Doyen is a cognitive scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the first author of the 2012 replication of the elderly-priming walking study. With automated infrared timing and 120…

Behavioural scientist. First author of the 2022 meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioural domains.

Stephen G. Harkins is a psychologist listed at Northeastern University on the 1985 paper The role of evaluation in eliminating social loafing, which he wrote with Jeffrey M. Jackson. He is also a…