Social and behavioral scientists

Marisa Franco

Marisa G. Franco is a counseling psychologist and friendship researcher at the University of Maryland whose 2022 book Platonic, on attachment theory and adult friendship, became a New York Times bestseller.

Mariya Gubareva

Mariya Gubareva is a Portuguese-based economist and finance scholar, a senior professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, known for research on sovereign debt risk, flights-to-quality, and financial-market connectedness.

Mark A. Hall

Mark A. Hall is an American legal scholar of health law and health policy at Wake Forest University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Mark Gertler

Mark Gertler, born 1951 in Rosetown, Saskatchewan, is a Canadian-American macroeconomist at New York University best known for co-developing the financial accelerator, the mechanism by which credit-market frictions amplify business-cycle shocks.

Mark P. Taylor

Mark P. Taylor is an economist and former FX trader, professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis and Olin Business School dean from 2016 to 2022.

Mark R. Rosenzweig

Mark R. Rosenzweig is an American development economist who pioneered microeconometric methods for studying development, holds Yale's Frank Altschul Professorship, and directs its Economic Growth Center.

Mark Rosenzweig (American psychologist)

Mark Richard Rosenzweig (1922–2009) was an American research psychologist at UC Berkeley whose rat experiments first demonstrated that experience structurally changes the brain, including the adult brain.

Mark S. Granovetter

Mark S. Granovetter, born 1943, is an American sociologist at Stanford University known for the "strength of weak ties" theory and the concept of embeddedness, which founded modern economic sociology.

Mark W. Watson

Mark W. Watson is a time-series econometrician and empirical macroeconomist at Princeton University, known for his long collaboration with James H. Stock on forecasting and business cycles.

Markus K. Brunnermeier

Markus K. Brunnermeier, also known as Markus Brunnermeier, is a German economist who has been a professor at Princeton University since 1999 and directs its Bendheim Center for Finance.

Marshall H. Becker

Marshall H. Becker (1940–1993) was an American medical sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of Health Belief Model and patient compliance research.

Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins (1930–2021) was an American cultural anthropologist at the University of Chicago, best known for Stone Age Economics (1972) and its "original affluent society" thesis.

Martha Farah

Martha J. Farah is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her research on how socioeconomic status shapes the developing brain and for neuroethics.

Martin Browning

Martin Browning, born 1946 in London, is a British economist and professor at Nuffield College, Oxford, best known for the collective model of household behavior developed with Pierre-André Chiappori.

Martin Daly (evolutionary psychologist)

Martin Daly is a Canadian evolutionary psychologist, Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, best known for his three-decade collaboration with Margo Wilson applying evolutionary theory to homicide and family violence.

Martin Eichenbaum

Martin S. Eichenbaum is an American macroeconomist and professor of economics at Northwestern University, co-creator with Christiano and Evans of the estimated New Keynesian DSGE model, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Martin Gaynor

Martin Gaynor is an American health economist at Carnegie Mellon University who studies hospital competition and prices, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Martin L. Weitzman

Martin L. Weitzman (1942–2019) was an American economist and Harvard professor whose work on environmental policy, long-horizon discounting, and catastrophic climate risk shaped the EPA's social-cost-of-carbon analysis.

Martin Ravallion

Martin Ravallion was an Australian development economist who proposed the dollar-a-day international poverty line in 1990 and led World Bank poverty research from 1988 to 2013.

Martin Roland

Martin Oliver Roland, born 1951, is a British general practitioner and health services researcher, Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, known for the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire and pay-for-performance evaluations.

Martin S. Feldstein

Martin S. Feldstein (1939–2019) was a Harvard economist who led the NBER from 1977 to 2008, chaired Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, and won the 1977 John Bates Clark Medal.

Martin Seligman

Martin Seligman (born 1942) is the University of Pennsylvania psychologist who co-discovered learned helplessness in 1967, founded positive psychology as APA president in 1998, and developed explanatory style and the PERMA well-being model.

Martin Shubik

Martin Shubik (1926–2018) was an American mathematical economist at Yale who pioneered game theory in economics, invented the dollar auction game, and built a game-theoretic theory of money.

Martin Uribe

Martín Uribe is an Argentine-American macroeconomist, the Robert A. Mundell Professor at Columbia University and NBER research associate, known for work on sovereign default, capital controls, and exchange-rate policy.

Marvin Zuckerman

Marvin Zuckerman (1928–2018) was an American personality psychologist who codeveloped the Sensation Seeking Scale, defining sensation seeking, and was professor emeritus at the University of Delaware.

Mary C. Waters

Mary C. Waters is a Harvard sociologist who studies immigrant integration and racial and ethnic identity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Mary L. Gray

Mary L. Gray, born in 1969, is an American anthropologist and 2020 MacArthur Fellow at Indiana University and Microsoft Research, known for Out in the Country and Ghost Work.

Mary Murphy (psychologist)

Mary C. Murphy is an American social and motivational psychologist, the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor at Indiana University Bloomington who studies belonging, situational cues, and mindset cultures.

Mary O. Mundinger

Mary O. Mundinger, also known as Mary O'Neil Mundinger, is an American nurse scientist and health policy scholar. She led a trial showing nurse practitioner outcomes were equivalent to physicians.