Social and behavioral scientists

Robert M. Boynton

Robert M. Boynton (1924–2006) was an American color vision scientist who founded Rochester's Center for Visual Science and wrote the standard text Human Color Vision.

Robert M. Hauser

Robert M. Hauser, born 1942 in Chicago, is an American quantitative sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on social stratification, statistics, and aging.

Robert M. Netting

Robert M. Netting, also known as Robert McC. Netting, was an American anthropologist and cultural ecologist who studied smallholder farming in Nigeria and the Swiss Alps.

Robert M. Townsend

Robert M. Townsend is an American development economist, the Elizabeth & James Killian Professor at MIT, known for costly state verification and the Townsend Thai Project.

Robert McCorkle Netting

Robert McC. Netting (1934–1995) was an American anthropologist and cultural ecologist who studied smallholder farm families in Nigeria and the Swiss Alps, teaching at the University of Arizona.

Robert Moffitt

Robert Moffitt, born 1948, is an American labor economist at Johns Hopkins University known for his 1983 welfare stigma model and research on income transfer programs.

Robert Mundell

Robert A. Mundell (1932–2021) was a Canadian economist at Columbia University who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for work on exchange rates and currency areas.

Robert B. Reich, American political economist, Clinton's Secretary of Labor 1993-1997, Dartmouth and Yale Law graduate, Berkeley Goldman School emeritus professor, author of The Work of Nations and 17 other books, Inequality Media co-founder.

Robert S. Pindyck

Robert S. Pindyck, born 1945, is an American economist at MIT Sloan known for investment under uncertainty, natural resource markets, and his critique of climate models, coauthoring Microeconomics with Daniel Rubinfeld.

Robert S. Woodworth

Robert S. Woodworth (1869–1962) was an American experimental psychologist and longtime Columbia University professor, best known for the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, often cited as the first personality test.

Robert Shimer

Robert Shimer is a macro-labor economist at the University of Chicago, best known for the Shimer puzzle: the standard search model of unemployment cannot reproduce observed unemployment and vacancy volatility.

Robert Solow

Robert M. Solow (1924–2023), American MIT economist and 1987 Nobel laureate in economics, creator of the Solow–Swan growth model and the Solow residual, showed technology drives most economic growth.

Robert W. Vishny

Robert W. Vishny is an American finance economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on corporate governance and law and finance.

Robert Yerkes

Robert Yerkes (1876–1956) was an American psychologist and primatologist who developed comparative psychology, created the Yerkes–Dodson law and Army mental tests, and founded the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology.

Robin DiAngelo

Robin DiAngelo is an American educator at the University of Washington who coined "white fragility" in 2011 and wrote the 2018 bestseller White Fragility, which sold about 1.5 million copies.

Robin Fox (anthropologist)

Robin Fox, full name John Robert Fox (1934–2024), was a British anthropologist who founded Rutgers University's anthropology department in 1967 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Robin Murphy Williams

Robin Murphy Williams (1914–2006) was an American sociologist at Cornell University known for work on race relations, war and peace, and altruism, and for The American Soldier.

Robin S S Kramer

Robin S S Kramer is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Lincoln, since 2017, known for research on face recognition and within-person facial variability.

Robyn Stone

Robyn Stone is an American health policy researcher who studies aging and long-term care and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Rochel Gelman

Rochel Gelman, born 1942, is an American developmental psychologist at Rutgers University known for showing that preschool children know far more about number than earlier theories allowed.

Roger B. Myerson

Roger B. Myerson, also known as Roger Myerson, is an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Roger Brown (psycholinguist)

Roger Brown (1925–1997) was an American social psychologist and psycholinguist at Harvard University, acknowledged as the founder of developmental psycholinguistics and a pioneer in the study of how children acquire language.

Roger Guesnerie

Roger Guesnerie (1943–2026) was a French economic theorist known for work on general equilibrium, optimal taxation, and sunspot equilibria, and founding president of the Paris School of Economics.

Roger Kasperson

Roger Kasperson (1938–2021) was an American geographer at Clark University who introduced the social amplification of risk framework and led the Stockholm Environment Institute from 2000 to 2004.

Roland Benabou

Roland Bénabou is a French economist working in behavioral and political economics, best known for his theory of motivated beliefs developed with Jean Tirole and his 2013 paper "Groupthink".

Roland Fryer

Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is an American economist at Harvard who won the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal and became the youngest African American there to receive tenure.

Ron Boschma

Ron Boschma is a Dutch geographer and professor of Regional Economics at Utrecht University, a founder of evolutionary economic geography and winner of the 2024 Vautrin Lud prize.

Ron Lesthaeghe

Ron Lesthaeghe, born 1945 in Ostend, Belgium, is a Belgian sociologist and demographer, emeritus professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, best known as co-formulator of the second demographic transition.

Ronald Freedman

Ronald Freedman (1917–2007) was an American sociologist and demographer at the University of Michigan who directed the first national US fertility survey and founded its Population Studies Center.