Thinkers (page 77)

Social psychologist at London Business School, and one of the most productive researchers on anchoring. Two of his papers matter here: the sentencing study with Birte Englich and Fritz Strack, and…

Thomas Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School and is affiliated with the Shorenstein Center. His 2000 report Doing Well and Doing Good analysed…

Evolutionary psychologist working on social networks and on what happens when well-known effects are tested again.

Economist and sociologist whose The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) gave us conspicuous consumption, and whose actual argument is wider and stranger than the phrase now carries. His subject is a…

Thorsten Pachur is the first author of "How do people judge risks: Availability heuristic, affect heuristic, or both?", published with Ralph Hertwig and Florian Steinmann in the Journal of…

Tilo Hartmann is a communication researcher who co-authored two experiments on how viewers experience parasocial interaction: a 2011 paper in the Journal of Communication that introduced the…

Tim Spector is an epidemiologist, the public face of the PREDICT research programme and a co-founder of ZOE, the company built on it. He is the last author on the 2020 Nature Medicine paper and a…

Tim Wildschut is Professor of Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Southampton and, with Constantine Sedikides, the co-architect of the modern experimental study of nostalgia. He…

Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia who coined the term net neutrality and later worked on competition policy inside the White House. For this site he matters as the historian of attention as a…

Writer and broadcaster, author of Technology Is Not the Problem (2024), which argues that personalising technology spread because our sense of who we are had already shrunk, not the reverse.

Social psychologist at the University of Virginia, co-author of the 1977 review on verbal reports, and of later work on self-knowledge and why people are poor predictors of their own reactions.

Tina Payne Bryson is an American psychotherapist, a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate from the University of Southern California, and the founder of The Center for Connection in…