Thinkers (page 9)

Daniel Gilbert is a social psychologist at Harvard, known outside the field for Stumbling on Happiness and inside it for affective forecasting, the study of how badly people predict their own future…

Behavioural scientist. Co-author of the 2003 organ donation policy forum, and later a co-author of one of the 2022 letters arguing the nudge literature has been oversold.

Daniel Goleman is a psychologist and former New York Times science journalist whose book Emotional Intelligence, published by Bantam in 1995, made the idea a mass-market one. He did not originate…

Law professor who argued in 2021 that the privacy paradox rests on a mistaken inference from behaviour to attitude.

Daniel P. Johnson is the first author, with Mark Whisman, of the 2013 meta-analysis of gender differences in rumination: fifty-nine studies and more than fourteen thousand adults. Women scored…

Daniel Kahneman, 1934 to 2024, was an Israeli-American psychologist whose work with Amos Tversky on judgment under uncertainty founded the heuristics-and-biases programme and, in prospect theory…

Consumer researcher, second author of the IKEA effect paper. This page is short because what can be said about a three-author paper's division of labour is nothing, and the contribution worth…

Daniel Oppenheimer is a cognitive psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of the 2006 experiments this site relies on for the disfluency penalty. Across three experiments he showed…

Daniel Siegel is an American psychiatrist, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He took his medical degree at Harvard…

Daniel Wegner was a social psychologist at Harvard, best known for the white-bear experiments and for the theory he built out of them. Told not to think of a white bear, people think of one about…

Social psychologist and co-author of the 2008 paper that carried colour psychology into commercial practice.

Daniele Fanelli is a meta-scientist at the London School of Economics and the author of "Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to?", published in 2018. The paper…