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Alexandra Horowitz
Alexandra Horowitz is an American cognitive scientist who studies dog cognition, leads the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, and wrote the bestseller Inside of a Dog.
C. Lloyd Morgan
C. Lloyd Morgan, born Conwy Lloyd Morgan, was a British psychologist and zoologist, a pioneer of comparative psychology best known for Morgan's canon, his 1894 principle of animal behavior interpretation.
Gary Marcus
Gary F. Marcus is a cognitive scientist and professor emeritus at New York University known for infant rule-learning experiments and, since 2018, prominent criticism of deep learning.
Jiaying Zhao
Jiaying Zhao is a Canadian-based cognitive scientist, professor at the University of British Columbia, and co-author of the 2013 Science paper "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function" on scarcity.
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for experiments on how language shapes habitual thought about time and color.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, known for the theory of constructed emotion and her book How Emotions Are Made.
Massimo Polidoro
Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist and science popularizer who co-founded the skeptical organization CICAP in 1989 and describes himself as James Randi's only apprentice.
Mehdi Moussaïd
Mehdi Moussaïd is a French cognitive scientist who studies crowd movement, social contagion, and collective intelligence, known for a model explaining how dense crowds develop stop-and-go waves and turbulence.
Sarah Brosnan
Sarah Brosnan is a comparative psychologist at Georgia State University known for the 2003 capuchin monkey study with Frans de Waal showing monkeys reject unequal pay.
Scott Barry Kaufman
Scott Barry Kaufman is a psychologist who studies intelligence, creativity, and self-actualization, known for the dual-process theory of intelligence, the book Transcend, and The Psychology Podcast.
Shari Liu
Shari Liu is a cognitive scientist who studies how infants reason about other people's actions, known for a 2017 Science study showing ten-month-olds infer goal value from effort.
Sian Beilock
Sian Leah Beilock is an American cognitive scientist who studies why skilled people fail under pressure, and has served as the 19th president of Dartmouth College since 2023.
Stanley Krippner
Stanley Krippner (born 1932) is an American psychologist and parapsychologist best known for directing the dream telepathy experiments at Maimonides Medical Center from 1964 to 1972, and later teaching at Saybrook University.