
Sources and Influences
(P&R = Professor and Researcher)
Daniel Kahneman
- PhD Psychology University of California Berkley
- P&R Hebrew University
- P&R Cambridge
- P&R Harvard
- Father of Behavioral Economics (with Tversky)
- 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for Behavioral Economics
- 2015 named by The Economists the 7th most influential economist in the world
Amos Tversky
- PhD Cognitive Psychology University of Michigan
- P&R Hebrew University
- P&R Stanford
- Father of Behavioral Economics (with Kahneman)
Richard Thaler
- PhD Economics University of Rochester
- P&R Cornell
- P&R University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for Behavioral Economics
Abraham Maslow
- MA Behavioral Psychology University of Wisconsin
- P&R Columbia
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- PhD Psychology University of Chicago
- P&R University of Chicago
- P&R Claremont Graduate University
- Flow State
Anders Ericsson
- PhD University of Stockholm
- P&R Florida State University
- Deliberate Practice
- Theory of Skilled Memory
- Acquisition of expert performance
Martin Seligman
- PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
- P&R University of Pennsylvania
- Father of Positive Psychology
Christopher Peterson
- PhD University of Colorado
- P&R University of Michigan
- P&R Virginia Tech
- P&R University of Pennsylvania
- Director of VIA Institute of Character
- Co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues with Martin Seligman
Angela Duckworth
- BA Neurobiology Harvard
- MSc Neuroscience Oxford
- PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
- Former McKinsey consultant
- 2013 MacArthur Genius Award
- P&R University of Pennsylvania
- Founder of Character Lab
- Co-director of Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative
- Co-director of Wharton People Analytics
- Co-host of No Stupid Questions podcast
Katy Milkman
- BA Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton
- PhD joint program in Computer Science and Business Harvard
- P&R University of Pennsylvania Medical School
- P&R Wharton
- Host of Choiceology podcast
Aaron Beck
- P&R University of Pennsylvania
- Father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
George Kelly
- BA Physics and Mathematics Park College
- MA Sociology University of Kansas
- PhD Psychology State University of Iowa
- P&R Ohio State
- Personal Construct Theory
Albert Bandura
- MA, PhD University of Iowa
- P&R Stanford
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Self-Efficacy Theory
Amy Cuddy
- PhD Psychology Princeton
- P&R: Rutgers
- P&R Kellogg School of Management
- P&R Harvard Business School
Brian Little
- PhD Psychology University of California at Berkley
- P&R Harvard
- P&R Oxford
- P&R Cambridge
Daniel Pink
- BA Northwestern (Phi Beta Kappa)
- JD Yale Law School
- Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore
- prolific and prominent business author
Michael Lewis
- BA Princeton
- MA London School of Economics
- Trader at Salomon Brothers
- prolific and prominent behavioral science author
- Host of Against the Rules podcast
Stephen Dubner
- MFA Writing Columbia
- prolific and prominent behavioral science author
- Host of Freakonomics podcast
- Co-host of No Stupid Questions podcast
Steven Pinker
- PhD Philosophy Harvard
- P&R MIT
- P&R Harvard
- P&R Stanford
- Computational theory of the mind
Carol Dweck
- PhD Psychology Yale
- P&R Columbia
- P&R Harvard
- P&R Stanford
- Growth Mindset
Andrew Huberman
- PhD Neuroscience University of California Davis
- P&R Stanford Medical School
David Yeager
- PhD Developmental Psychology Stanford
- P&R University of Texas Austin
- The “wise feedback paper”
Peter Attia
- BS Mechanical Engineering Queen’s University
- MD Stanford School of Medicine
- Surgery Resident Johns Hopkins
- Surgical Fellow National Institutes of Health
- Consultant McKinsey and Company
- Private practice focused on applied science of longevity and optimal performance
Barbara Oakley
- BA Electrical Engineering
- MA Computer Engineering
- PhD Systems Engineering
- P&R Oakland University
- P&R McMaster University
- Creator of Learn How to Learn – the most popular MOOC, with 2,286,800 students
Amy Edmondson
- PhD Organizational Behavior Harvard
- P&R Harvard Business School
- Identified Psychological Safety as key to productive workplace
Chris Voss
FBI Chief International Hostage Negotiator
- FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit 24 years
- Lecturer Harvard Law School
- Lecturer Georgetown University School of Business
- Lecturer University of Southern California School of Business
Julia Dhar
- MA Behavioral Economics Harvard
- Managing Director and Partner Boston Consulting Group
- Co-founder BCG Behavioral Economics Initiative
- 3x Champion World Schools Debate
Liane Young
- PhD Harvard
- Postdoc MIT Brain Science lab
- P&R Boston College
Alison Wood Brooks
- BA Princeton
- PhD Wharton
- P&R Harvard Business School
- 2021 Best 40-Under-40 professor
- Creator of most popular elective at HBS
Deborah Tannen
- MA Linguistics University of California Berkley
- PhD Linguistics University of California Berkley
- P&R Princeton
Amishi Jha
- PhD Psychology University of California Davis
- postdoc Neuroimaging Duke
- P&R University of Pennsylvania Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
- P&R University of Miami
Sian Beilock
- PhD Psychology Michigan State
- P&R University of Chicago
- Executive Vice Provost University of Chicago
- President Barnard College at Columbia University
Todd Kashdan
- MA Psychology University of Buffalo
- PhD Psychology University of Buffalo
- P&R George Mason University
Daniel Gilbert
- PhD Psychology Princeton
- P&R University of Texas Austin
- P&R Harvard
- Affective Forecasting and Temporal Distancing
John A. List
- PhD Economics University of Wyoming
- Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
- Ranked 9th most influential economist in the world by RePEc
- Pioneered field experimentation in economics
- Chief Economist at Uber
- Chief Economist at Lyft
- P&R University of Chicago
- author of The Voltage Effect
Scott Barry Kaufman
- MA Philosophy Cambridge
- PhD Cognitive Psychology Yale
- P&R Columbia
- P&R New York University
- P&R University of Pennsylvania
- Host of The Psychology Podcast
Ethan Kross
- PhD Columbia
- P&R University of Michigan
Milton Friedman
- MA Economics University of Chicago
- PhD Economics Columbia
- 1976 Noble Prize in Economics
Roy Baumeister
- MA Psychology Duke
- PhD Psychology Princeton
- P&R Case Western
- P&R Florida State
- P&R University of Queensland
Dan Ariely
- PhD Cognitive Psychology Tel Aviv University
- PhD Business Administration University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- P&R MIT
- P&R Duke
Ayelet Fishbach
- BA, MA, PhD Psychology (magna cum laude) Tel Aviv University
- P&R University of Chicago Booth School
Paul J. Zak
- PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
- P&R Claremont Graduate University
Kelly McGonigal
- MA Mass Communications Boston University
- PhD Psychology Stanford
- Lecturer & Researcher Stanford
Judson Brewer
- BA Chemistry Princeton University
- MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine
- Residency in Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine
- P&R Brown University School of Medicine
- Director Brown University Mindfulness Center
Todd Kashdan
- BA Cornell University
- MA, PhD University of Buffalo
- P&R George Mason University
Robert Cialdini
- PhD University of North Carolina
- Postdoc Columbia University
- P&R University of Arizona
- Visiting Scholar Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Member National Academy of Sciences
- The psychology of persuasion
Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
William James
- Father of American psychology
Carl Jung
- Founder of Analytical Psychology
Alfred Adler
- Austrian Psychiatrist – humans are primarily and ultimately motivated by the drive for power
Sigmund Freud
- Austrian Psychiatrist – humans are primarily and ultimately motivated by the drive for pleasure
Viktor Frankl
- Austrian Psychiatrist – humans are primarily and ultimately motivated by the drive for purpose