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List of the most influential female people in Psychology,

#751

Lisa Aronson Fontes

Lisa Aronson Fontes

#93521

Overall Influence

Lisa Aronson Fontes is an American psychologist, author, activist and academic associated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Biography Fontes was born in New York City. She graduated from the New Lincoln School and completed her undergraduate education in Romance Languages at Cornell University. In 2006 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina. She also earned a master's degrees in journalism from Columbia University School of Journalism and a master's degree in psychology from New York University. She earned a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1992.

#752

Shirley Feldman

#115620

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Sarah Shirley Feldman is an American developmental psychologist and senior research scientist in Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where she is also associate director in the Program in Human Biology. She was the director of Stanford's Center for the Study of Families, Children, and Youth from 1991 until the center closed in 1994. She collaborated with Paul R. Ehrlich on the 1977 book The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice, and Intelligence.

#753

Rona Moss-Morris

#81466

Overall Influence

Rona Moss-Morris is Head of Health Psychology and Chair in Psychology as Applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Her research investigates long-term, medically unexplained disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome . She joined the IoP in 2011 and presented an inaugural lecture entitled "Trials and tribulations: A journey towards integrated care for long term conditions."

#754

Monica Biernat

#92012

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Monica Rose Biernat is a social psychologist known for her research on social judgment, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas.

#755

Alice Auersperg

#65272

Overall Influence

Alice Auersperg is an Austrian cognitive biologist specializing in the evolution of intelligence in birds. Her research is primarily focused on the physical cognition, play behavior, problem-solving and tool-making abilities in parrots and corvids. Since 2011, she has managed the Goffin Lab of Comparative Cognition at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria, where she has extensively studied the intelligence of the Tanimbar corella, also known as the Goffin's cockatoo.

#756

Nancy E. Hill

#42791

Overall Influence

Nancy E. Hill is an American developmental psychologist. She is the Charles Bigelow Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hill is an expert on the impact of parental involvement in adolescent development, cultural influences on minority youth development, and academic discourse socialization, defined as parents' academic beliefs, expectations, and behaviors that foster their children's academic and career goals.

#757

Brenda Rapp

#117072

Overall Influence

Brenda Carla Rapp professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. In 2010, she was appointed joint editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology.

#758

Patricia Frazier

#132676

Overall Influence

Patricia A. Frazier is an American psychology professor who researches the application of social psychological theory and research to problems of concern to counseling psychologists. In particular, coping with stressful or traumatic life events, and developing innovative interventions. She heads the Stress and Trauma Lab at the University of Minnesota.

#759

Nina Schooler

#131478

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Nina R. Schooler is an American psychologist. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, as well as a founding member of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's scientific council. She is known for her research on the treatment of schizophrenia, as well as tardive dyskinesia and first-episode psychosis. She is a past president of the American Psychopathological Association and of the Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research. She previously worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Pittsburgh.

#760

Alison Cernich

#92341

Overall Influence

Alison Nenos Cernich is an American neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury and computerized neuropsychological assessment. She is the deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Cernich was previously deputy director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, assistant professor of neurology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, and chief of neuropsychology at the VA Maryland Health Care System.

#761

Michela Balconi

#141024

Overall Influence

#762

Nicola Gavey

#129204

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Nicola Gavey is a New Zealand psychology academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 1985 MA titled 'Depressive self-schemata and gender-schemata in women' and a 1990 PhD titled 'Rape and sexual coercion within heterosexual relationships : an intersection of psychological, feminist, and postmodern inquiries' at the University of Auckland, she joined the staff, rising to full professor.

#763

Danielle M. Dick

#106780

Overall Influence

Danielle Marie Dick is an American psychologist. She is the inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. She researches the genetic epidemiology of substance abuse and related behavioral disorders.

#764

Patricia Arredondo

#117680

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Patricia Arredondo is an American counseling psychologist, primarily recognized for her efforts in developing the area of multicultural counseling. She has been recognized in the field of psychology for her contributions to the advancement of Ethnic Minority Psychology. She has been associated with the APA , and the National Hispanic Psychological Association along with many other associations. She is the 2018 recipient of the Anthony J. Marsella Award from the Psychologists for Social Responsibility.

#765

M. Lynne Cooper

#141111

Overall Influence

M. Lynne Cooper is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri. She is known for her research on risk-taking and psychological adjustment of adolescents, young adults, and couples. Many of her studies and published works are related to alcohol, substance use, and sexual activity in adolescents and young adults at the transition to adulthood. Other influential research has examined health outcomes of parents who experience stress due to conflicts between work and family responsibilities.

#766

Albena Stambolova

#108827

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Albena Stambolova is a Bulgarian psychoanalyst and Freudian psychologist, literature columnist and novelist. She become known with her lectures on psychoanalysis that she gave to Bulgarian philology program and Slavic and Western philologies in Sofia University after her return from France where she studied to Bulgarian literary critic, semiotician and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva.

#767

Stephanie J. Rowley

#124161

Overall Influence

Stephanie Johnson Rowley is a developmental psychologist and academic administrator known for her work on racial identity and parental socialization of race and ethnicity. She is the dean of University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development.

#768

Maree Teesson

#115321

Overall Influence

Maree Rose Teesson , FAAHMS, FASSA, is an Australian expert on mental health. She is the Director of The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. She is also professorial fellow at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW.

#769

Elham Kazemi

#58130

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Elham Kazemi is a mathematics educator and educational psychologist, the Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington. Education and career Kazemi is originally from Iran, and moved to the US at age 11. She graduated from Duke University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and became an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. Returning to graduate study in educational psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, she earned a master's degree in 1997 and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her di...

#770

Diana Zuckerman

Diana Zuckerman

#11389

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Diana M. Zuckerman is an American health policy analyst who focuses on the implications of policies for public health and patients' health. She specializes in national health policy, particularly in women's health and the safety and effectiveness of medical products. She is the President of the National Center for Health Research and the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund.

#771

Christine Chambers

Christine Chambers

#128801

Overall Influence

Christine Therese Chambers is a Canadian clinical psychologist at Dalhousie University. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children's Pain. Education Chambers became interested in psychology as a child. She completed her undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University. She spent her summers at the IWK Health Centre. She joined the University of British Columbia for her graduate studies , working with Kenneth D. Craig on pain.

#772

Karin Mogg

#142604

Overall Influence

#773

Rae Silver

#117559

Overall Influence

Rae Silver is a Canadian behavioral neuroendocrinologist and neuroscientist best known for her research on the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus in generating circadian rhythms, the role of mast cells in the brain, the physiological mechanisms of parental behavior in ring doves. She is currently the Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural & Physical Sciences and is currently the Chair of the Neuroscience Program and Professor of Psychology at Barnard College. In addition, she is jointly appointed as a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia Univer...

#774

Juliana Schroeder

#90917

Overall Influence

Juliana Schroeder is an American behavioral scientist and academic. She is a professor at University of California, Berkeley. Education Schroeder's educational background includes a B.A. in psychology and economics from the University of Virginia, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology and Business from the University of Chicago.

#775

Karin Lasthuizen

#40791

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Karin Marjolein Lasthuizen is a Dutch-New Zealand academic. As of 2022, she holds the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career After an undergraduate at Radboud University Nijmegen, Lasthuizen did a 2008 PhD at VU University Amsterdam titled 'Leading to integrity : empirical research into the effects of leadership on ethics and integrity.' She then lectured at VU University Amsterdam and was a city councilor for the Labour Party before moving to Wellington, New Zealand in 2016 to take up the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership a...

#776

Anna Weinberg

#122144

Overall Influence

Anna Weinberg is a psychologist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience at McGill University. Weinberg obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Wesleyan University in 2000; she completed graduate studies in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University, earning a Master of Arts degree in 2009 and a Ph.D. in 2014. She joined McGill as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Her research focuses on identifying biological pathways that are involved in emotional functioning and dysfunction.

#777

Sheilagh Hodgins

#143472

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

#778

Linda Nielsen

#52732

Overall Influence

Linda Nielsen is a professor of adolescent and educational psychology in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. She has conducted research on the effects of shared parenting and on father–daughter relationships.

#779

Siri Leknes

#105897

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Siri Graff Leknes is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oslo, where she directs the Leknes Affective Brain Lab, which is funded by a European Research Council grant.

#780

Elizabeth Miller

#37895

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Elizabeth Russell Miller was a Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She resided in Toronto. In her early academic career, she focused on Newfoundland literature, primarily the life and work of her father, well-known Newfoundland author and humorist Ted Russell. Beginning in 1990, her major field of research was Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, its author, sources and influence. She published several books on the subject, including Reflections on Dracula, Dracula: Sense & Nonsense, a volume on Dracula for the Dictionary of Literary Biography and, most recently, Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition with Robert Eighteen-Bisang.

#781

Daphne Bugental

#103509

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Daphne Blunt Bugental was a psychologist known for her research on parent-child relationships, infant and child maltreatment, and family violence. At the time of her death, she was Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#782

Tricia Striano

#98426

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Tricia Striano Skoler is the Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Career Striano was born in Weymouth Massachusetts. She obtained her BA in psychology from The College of the Holy Cross. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In 2004,

#783

Daniela Schiller

#85840

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Daniela Schiller is a neuroscientist who leads the Affective Neuroscience Lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is best known for her work on memory reconsolidation, and on modification of emotional learning and memory.

#784

Esra Mungan

#116724

Overall Influence

Esra Mungan is a Turkish academic and associate professor of psychology at Boğaziçi University who was arrested in 2016 for signing the Academics for Peace petition "We won’t be a party to this crime!" demanding a peaceful solution to the conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdistan Workers Party in South-East Turkey. Mungan was among the 1128 signatories of a January 2016 petition calling for an end to violence in the region. In March 2016 she was arrested for a month. Her university was supportive of her during the period of her arrest.

#785

Barbara Maughan

#144076

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

#786

Andrea Kübler

#144799

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

#787

Modupe Akinola

#68543

Overall Influence

Modupe Nyikoale Akinola is an American organizational scholar and social psychologist who examines the science of stress, creativity, and how to maximize human potential in diverse organizations. She is currently the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where she is the Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.

#788

Victoria Luine

#134199

Overall Influence

Victoria Luine is an American psychologist and neurochemist, currently a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and also a published author.

#789

Janice Tsoh

#117106

Overall Influence

Janice Y. Tsoh is a Chinese-American clinical psychologist and a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Early life and education Tsoh is from Hong Kong, completed a B.A. in psychology from Binghamton University in 1990. In 1993, Tsoh earned an M.A. in clinical psychology from University of Rhode Island . She conducted a residency in clinical psychology from 1994 to 1995 at University of Mississippi Medical Center. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from URI in 1995. She conducted postdoctoral studies in cancer prevention at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1995 to 1997.

#790

Carrie Bearden

#97802

Overall Influence

Carrie Elyse Bearden is an American psychologist and academic. She is a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Center for the Assessment and Prevention of Prodromal States, a clinical research program for youth at high risk for psychotic disorders. She is most known for her research taking a ‘genetics first’ approach to study brain mechanisms underlying the development of serious mental illness. Her work has identified biological convergence between genetically and clinically defined high-risk populations.

#791

Judith M. LeBlanc

#64681

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Judith M. LeBlanc is an American psychologist, teacher and special education researcher. Biography Judith M. LeBlanc is head consultant of the Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú. She is the main architect of the center's Functional natural curriculum methodology and along with Liliana Mayo developed the center's distance education program. LeBlanc is Professor Emeritus of the University of Kansas Departments of Applied Behavioral Science and Special Education. She is the Coordinator of International Programs at the Schiefelbusch Institute for Research in Life Span Studies.

#792

Lauren Adamson

#90048

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Lauren Bernstein Adamson was a developmental psychologist known for her research on communicative development, parent-child interaction, and joint attention in infants with typical and atypical developmental trajectories. She was a Regents' Professor Emerita of Psychology at Georgia State University.

#793

Ursula Hess

#129293

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Ursula Hess is a German psychologist who teaches at the Humboldt-University of Berlin as Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Psychology. Education Hess received a Diploma in psychology from the Justus-Liebig University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Dartmouth College in 1989.

#794

Devon Polaschek

Devon Polaschek

#131294

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Devon Leigh Logan Polaschek is a New Zealand professor of psychology and of Crime Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand who studies high-risk violent offenders in prisons and on parole.

#795

Nira Liberman

#145539

Overall Influence

#796

Gudela Grote

#114758

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Gudela Grote is a German psychologist and academic. She was educated in Germany and the United States, and established her career in Switzerland. Early life Born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, Grote studied psychology at the University of Marburg and the Technical University in Berlin, and received her doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1987 with a dissertation on the situational specificity and consistency of achievement motivation. She continued her research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1988 and has held visiting positions at the Uni...

#797

Nilanjana Dasgupta

#93509

Overall Influence

Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes - particularly on factors that insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes which suggest that females perform poorly in such areas. Dasgupta is a professor of Psychology and is the Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

#798

Jo Ann M. Gora

#36733

Overall Influence

Jo Ann M. Gora is an American academic and college administrator. She was the 14th President of Ball State University. Before coming to Ball State she was a chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston, and, prior to that, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

#799

Sara Mednick

#91720

Overall Influence

Sara C. Mednick is a sleep researcher at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the relationship between napping and performance. She is the author of several papers and a mass market book, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. She graduated with her PhD in psychology from Harvard University studying under Ken Nakayama and Robert Stickgold.

#800

Caroline F. Rowland

#114817

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Caroline F. Rowland is a British psychologist known for her work on child first language development, grammar acquisition, and the role of environment in child's language growth. Since 2016, she has been the Director of the Language Development Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She holds the position of Professor of First Language Acquisition by Special Appointment at Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has also been an Honorary Research Associate in Psychological Sciences at University of Liverpool since 2018.

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