Thinkers (page 93)

Patrick J. McGinnis wrote "Social Theory at HBS: McGinnis' Two FOs", a humour column published in The Harbus, the Harvard Business School student paper, in May 2004. The column introduced FOMO, the…

Patrick Sharkey is a sociologist at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the sole author of "Homebound", a 2024 paper in Sociological Science showing that average time spent…

Patrick Wyatt is the first author of the 2021 paper in Nature Metabolism reporting that it is the dip in blood sugar a couple of hours after a meal, rather than the earlier spike, that goes with…

Evolutionary biologist who tested whether Dunbar's number can be derived the way it is said to be derived. It cannot.

Paul Burgess appears on this site as co-author of the 2011 Journal of Neuroscience paper on episodic prospection and farsighted decisions.

Paul Caldo is first author of the 2023 paper that asked, with the analysis fixed in advance, how much a baby's Strange Situation classification actually predicts about the adult that baby becomes…

Paul Chandler is the co-author, with John Sweller, of the 1991 Cognition and Instruction paper Cognitive load theory and the format of instruction, which reported experiments on split-source and…

Psychologist and pioneer of aviation human factors, first author of the 1947 analysis of 460 pilot-error experiences with aircraft controls.

Paul Grice was a philosopher of language. He is credited with systematising the rules of cooperative conversation, now called the Gricean maxims, and with the term implicature for what a speaker…

Paul Herr is a consumer psychologist and Professor of Marketing at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. He is first author, with Frank Kardes and John Kim, of the 1991 Journal of Consumer…

Paul D. MacLean, 1913 to 2007, was an American physician and neuroscientist who proposed the triune brain through the 1960s and set it out in full in The Triune Brain in Evolution (Plenum, 1990). He…

Paul Rozin is a long-standing psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his work on disgust and on the cultural psychology of food. On this site he matters for one study. In 1998…