Thinkers (page 8)

Christopher Peterson, 1950 to 2012, was an American psychologist, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan, and science director of the VIA…

Cindy Hazan is a developmental psychologist at Cornell University and, with Phillip Shaver, the author of the 1987 paper that took attachment ideas from the nursery into adult romantic life…

Vision scientist who assessed the dress using standard clinical colour vision tests.

Designer and journalist, author with Robert Fabricant of User Friendly (2019), a history of user-centred design from wartime cockpits to persuasive technology.

British scientist whose 1953 paper on recognising speech with one and two ears set up the dichotic listening method and named the cocktail party problem.

Colleen Carney is a clinical psychologist at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she is a professor and directs the Sleep and Depression Laboratory. With William Waters she developed constructive…

Constantin Vica is a philosopher at the University of Bucharest working on ethics and digital technology, and a co-author of the 2024 Topoi paper on social media platforms as attentional scaffolds…

Constantine Sedikides is a social psychologist at the University of Southampton and, with his regular co-author Tim Wildschut, the principal architect of the modern experimental psychology of…

Consumer researcher whose 2002 sitcom study showed that product placements that stand out are remembered while placements that fit their scene persuade.

Cristina Voinea is a philosopher at the University of Oxford working on the ethics of technology, and first author of "Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds"…

Dan Ariely is a professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke, best known for Predictably Irrational (2008). He is one of the most quoted behavioural economists in popular business…

Daniel Friedman is an experimental economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the first author of the 2007 paper that built a laboratory treasure-digging game specifically to isolate…