Social and behavioral scientists

Robert A. Rescorla

Robert A. Rescorla (1940–2020) was an American experimental psychologist known for the Rescorla–Wagner model of associative learning and for showing that conditioning depends on contingency.

Robert Aaron Gordon (1908–1978) was an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on unemployment, his 1962 report Measuring Employment and Unemployment, and his 1975 American Economic Association presidential address.

Robert Axelrod (political scientist)

Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist at the University of Michigan whose Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments and 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation earned the 2014 National Medal of Science.

Robert B. Wilson

Robert B. Wilson is an American economist and Stanford professor who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Paul Milgrom for auction theory and new auction formats.

Robert Bates (political scientist)

Robert H. Bates is an American political scientist, Eaton Professor at Harvard since 1993, who studies African development and state failure; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Robert Briffault

Robert Briffault was a surgeon turned social anthropologist and novelist, remembered for The Mothers (1927), his three-volume argument for early matriarchy, and the best-selling novel Europa (1935).

Robert C. Feenstra

Robert C. Feenstra is an American economist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for measuring offshoring's effect on wages, the modern Penn World Table, and international trade textbooks.

Robert C. Merton

Robert C. Merton is an American financial economist who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.

Robert Cialdini

Robert B. Cialdini, American social psychologist and Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, author of Influence (1984) and Pre-Suasion (2016), known for the principles of persuasion, seven million copies in 44 languages, NAS 2019.

Robert D. Mare

Robert D. Mare (1951-2021) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and demographer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for the Mare model of school transitions and research on educational assortative mating.

Robert D. Putnam

Robert D. Putnam, Harvard political scientist, author of Making Democracy Work (1993) and Bowling Alone (2000), developer of bonding and bridging social capital, Skytte Prize 2006, National Humanities Medal 2013.

Robert Dahl

Robert Dahl (1915–2014) was an American political scientist at Yale University, a founder of pluralist theory and of polyarchy, called the dean of American political scientists.

Robert E. Hall

Robert E. Hall is an American macroeconomist, emeritus professor at Stanford and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who chairs the NBER committee dating U.S. recessions.

Robert E. Lucas Jr.

Robert E. Lucas Jr., also known as Robert Lucas, was an American economist at the University of Chicago who transformed macroeconomics through rational expectations, winning the 1995 Nobel Prize.

Robert Eisner

Robert Eisner (1922–1998) was an American macroeconomist at Northwestern University, known for his work on business investment, his inflation-adjusted deficit analysis, and as American Economic Association president in 1988.

Robert Finger

Robert Finger is a Swiss agricultural economist, full professor of agricultural economics and policy at ETH Zurich since 2016, known for research on pesticides, risk, and digital farming.

Robert Giffen

Sir Robert Giffen (1837–1910) was a British statistician and financial journalist who headed the Board of Trade's statistical department and is remembered for the Giffen good, a paradox he never stated.

Robert Glenn Hubbard

Robert Glenn Hubbard, born 1958, is an American economist, Russell L. Carson Professor at Columbia Business School and its Dean Emeritus, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.

Robert H. Porter

Robert H. Porter, born 1955 in London, Ontario, is a Northwestern University economist who studies collusion, price wars, and auctions, and shared the 2018 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for founding empirical industrial organization.

Robert J. Barro

Robert J. Barro, born 1944, is an American macroeconomist, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard and a founder of the New Classical school.

Robert J. Gordon

Robert J. Gordon is an American macroeconomist at Northwestern University known for arguing in The Rise and Fall of American Growth that 1870-1970 cannot be repeated.

Robert J. Sampson

Robert J. Sampson (born 1956) is an American sociologist and criminologist at Harvard University, best known for collective efficacy and winner of the 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Robert J. Shiller

Robert J. Shiller, Yale economist and 2013 Nobel laureate (with Fama and Hansen), behavioral finance pioneer, co-creator of the CAPE ratio and the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and author of Irrational Exuberance and Narrative Economics.

Robert Jervis

Robert Jervis (1940–2021) was an American political scientist and political psychologist at Columbia University, best known for Perception and Misperception in International Politics and his 1978 security dilemma analysis.

Robert K. Kaufmann

Robert K. Kaufmann, also known as Robert Kaufmann, is an American energy and environmental economist who is a professor at Boston University and studies climate change and world oil markets.

Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton (Meyer R. Schkolnick, 1910–2003), American Columbia sociologist; coined self-fulfilling prophecy, Matthew effect, role model, focus group; theories of the middle range; first sociologist awarded the National Medal of Science.

Robert Keohane

Robert Keohane (born 1941) is an American political scientist, emeritus professor at Princeton, known for neoliberal institutionalism and books including After Hegemony (1984) and Power and Interdependence (1977).

Robert King

Robert G. King (born 1951) is an American macroeconomist, Professor of Economics at Boston University, known for real business cycle theory and DSGE methods now standard in central banking.

Robert L. Carneiro

Robert L. Carneiro (1927–2020) was an American cultural anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, known for his circumscription theory of the origin of the state.