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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#501

Christopher Longuet-Higgins

#7265

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British scholar and teacher. He was the Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge for 13 years until 1967 when he moved to the University of Edinburgh to work in the developing field of cognitive science. He made many significant contributions to our understanding of molecular science. He was also a gifted amateur musician, both as performer and composer, and was keen to advance the scientific understanding of this art. He was the founding editor of the journal Molecular Physics.

#502

Elizabeth Warrington

#23169

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Elizabeth Kerr Warrington FRS is a British neuropsychologist specialised in the study of dementia. She holds a PhD in Psychology visual processing and is now an emeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University College London. She formerly worked as the Head of the Department of Neuropsychology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery where she is also a member of the Dementia Research Centre. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986.

#503

Arie W. Kruglanski

#25677

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Arie W. Kruglanski is a social psychologist known for his work on goal systems, regulatory mode, and cognitive closure. He is currently a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

#504

Paul Baltes

#15325

Overall Influence

1939 - 2006 (67 years)

Paul B. Baltes was a German psychologist whose broad scientific agenda was devoted to establishing and promoting the life-span orientation of human development. He was also a theorist in the field of the psychology of aging. He has been described by American Psychologist as one of the most influential developmental psychologists.

#505

Tomasz Witkowski

Tomasz Witkowski

#13072

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Tomasz Witkowski is a Polish psychologist, skeptic and science writer. He is known for his unconventional campaigns against pseudoscience. He specializes in debunking pseudoscience, particularly in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, and diagnostics. Witkowski also engages in debates on pseudoscience-related topics, emphasizing scientific skepticism.

#506

Alan M. Leslie

#16903

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University, where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory and is co-director of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science along with Ernest Lepore.

#507

Shelly Chaiken

#21074

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Rochelle Lynne "Shelly" Chaiken is an American social psychologist. She first received her BS from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1971 for mathematics. She later earned her MS and her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in social psychology. She was a professor of psychology at New York University, but is now retired.

#508

Gaetano Kanizsa

#13581

Overall Influence

1913 - 1993 (80 years)

Gaetano Kanizsa was an Italian psychologist and artist of Jewish and Slovenian Catholic descent who last served as a founder of the Institute of Psychology of Trieste. Biography Gaetano Kanizsa was born on 18 August 1913 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary to a Hungarian-Jewish father from Nagybecskerek and a Slovene Catholic mother from Bovec. His surname is analogous to the Hungarian town Kanizsa .

#509

Rom Harré

#11579

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Horace Romano "Rom" Harré was a New Zealand-British philosopher and psychologist. Biography Harré was born in Āpiti, in northern Manawatu, near Palmerston North, New Zealand, but held British citizenship. He studied chemical engineering and later graduated with a BSc in mathematics and a Master's in Philosophy , both at the University of New Zealand, now the University of Auckland.

#510

Edmund Rolls

#14584

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Edmund T. Rolls is a neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Warwick. Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal networks in the brain involved in vision, memory, attention, and decision-making; functional neuroimaging of vision, taste, olfaction, feeding, the control of appetite, memory, and emotion; neurological disorders of emotion; psychiatric disorders including depression and schizophrenia; and the brain processes underlying consciousness.

#511

Roger Walsh

#16097

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Roger N. Walsh is an Australian professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, within UCI's College of Medicine. Walsh is respected for his views on psychoactive drugs and altered states of consciousness in relation with the religious/spiritual experience, and has been quoted in the media regarding psychology, spirituality, and the medical effects of meditation.

#512

Ursula Bellugi

#11641

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Ursula Bellugi was an American cognitive neuroscientist. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. She is known for research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language and language representation in people with Williams Syndrome.

#513

Ian Deary

#21689

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Ian John Deary OBE, FBA, FRSE, FMedSci is a Scottish psychiatrist known for work in the fields of intelligence, cognitive ageing, cognitive epidemiology, and personality. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at The University of Edinburgh. He is former Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and co-Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre.

#514

Ruth M. J. Byrne

Ruth M. J. Byrne

#15085

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Ruth M.J. Byrne, FTCD, MRIA, is an Irish cognitive scientist and author of several books on human reasoning. She is the Professor of Cognitive Science, in the School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin.

#515

Gardner Lindzey

#16313

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

Gardner Edmund Lindzey was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association . After completing a doctorate at Harvard University, Lindzey served as a professor or administrator at several universities, edited a well-known textbook in social psychology and led a 1982 National Academy of Sciences panel that recommended the legalization of marijuana.

#516

Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

#19260

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Hans-Ulrich Wittchen is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and epidemiologist. He has been a head of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies at the Technische Universität Dresden. Since 2018, he is leading the research group "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research" at the Psychiatric Clinic of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and directs the IAP-TU Dresden GmbH in Dresden.

#517

James O. Prochaska

#14563

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

James O. Prochaska was professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island. He was the lead developer of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change beginning in 1983. Career James Prochaska was born in Detroit. He earned his B.A. in psychology at Wayne State University in 1964, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees both at Wayne State University. He is the author or co-author of over 400 publications on the dynamics of behavioral change - most of which expand the theory, test the TTM in randomized controlled trials, and defend the TTM.

#518

Norman B. Anderson

#13057

Overall Influence

1955 - 2018 (63 years)

Norman Bruce Anderson is an American scientist who was a tenured professor studying health disparities and mind/body health, and later an executive in government, non-profit, university sectors. Anderson is assistant vice president for research and academic affairs, and research professor of social work and nursing at Florida State University. He previously served as chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association , the largest scientific and professional association for psychologists in the United States. Anderson became the APA's first African-American CEO when he was named to the post in 2003.

#519

Arthur S. Reber

#16516

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Arthur S. Reber is an American cognitive psychologist. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Association for Psychological Science and a Fulbright Fellow. He is known for introducing the concept of implicit learning and for using basic principles of evolutionary biology to show how implicit or unconscious cognitive functions differ in fundamental ways from those carried out consciously.

#520

Susan Michie

#19846

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Susan Fiona Dorinthea Michie is a British academic, clinical psychologist, and professor of health psychology, director of The Centre for Behaviour Change and head of The Health Psychology Research Group, all at University College London. She is also an advisor to the British Government via the SAGE advisory group on matters concerning behavioural compliance with government regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she was appointed Chair of the World Health Organisation’s Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.

#521

Joscha Bach

#11070

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. Early life and education Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family.

#522

Gordon Pask

#1515

Overall Influence

1928 - 1996 (68 years)

Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made during his lifetime multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and the performing arts. During his life he gained three doctorate degrees. He was an avid writer, with more than two hundred and fifty publications which included a variety of journal articles, books, periodicals, patents, and technical reports . He also worked as an academic and researcher for a variety of educational settings, research institutes, and ...

#523

Max C. Hamilton

#32760

Overall Influence

#524

Cary Cooper

#12226

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Sir Cary Lynn Cooper , is an American-born British psychologist and 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before moving to Manchester he was Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. Cooper was Head of the Manchester School of Management from the early 1980s. In 1995 he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UMIST until 2002. From 1979 to 1980 he was chairman of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management and was elected as Founding President of the British Academy of Management.

#525

Roger Säljö

#26894

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Roger Säljö is a Swedish educational psychologist whose research presents a socio-cultural perspective on human learning and development. Säljö is a professor of education and educational psychology at Göteborg University and was president of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction between 2005 and 2007. Roger Säljö is the director of a national centre of excellence in research. In 2012, Roger Säljö co-founded the academic journal Learning, Culture and Social Interaction.

#526

Erik Homburger Erikson

#32867

Overall Influence

#527

Daniel Stern

#16594

Overall Influence

1934 - 2012 (78 years)

Daniel N. Stern was a prominent American developmental psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, specializing in infant development, on which he had written a number of books — most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant .

#528

László Garai

#13490

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

László Garai was a scholar of psychology: studies theoretical psychology, social psychology and economic psychology. Early life Garai was born in Budapest. He graduated in philosophy and psychology from the Faculty of Arts of Budapest University .

#529

Christa Neuper

#16409

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Christa Neuper is a psychologist who graduated from the University of Graz. Christa Neuper was the first woman in the 426 years of history of the University of Graz to be its rector . After her doctorate in 1984, Neuper worked on the research and teaching at the Institute of Psychology, from the University of Graz and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, from the Graz University of Technology. In 2002 Christa Neuper completed her free docency at the University of Graz, where in 2005 she was named professor of applied psychology and human-machine interfaces. Neuper was named in various man...

#530

Carl E. Thoresen

#23229

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

Carl E. Thoresen was a psychologist on the faculty of Stanford University. From 2005, he was also a senior fellow at Santa Clara University. Education and academic career Many events and achievements in Thoresen's career as a psychologist were described in a profile published in 2009 in The Counseling Psychologist , as part of its "Legacies and Traditions" series. Thoresen graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in history , later received his MA and PhD from Stanford University. After a brief period as an assistant professor of counseling at Michigan State , he returned to Stanford as assistant professor of education .

#531

Michael Argyle

#18786

Overall Influence

1925 - 2002 (77 years)

Michael Argyle was one of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics. Throughout his career, he showed strong preferences for experimental methods in social psychology, having little time for alternative approaches such as discourse analysis.

#532

Gary L. Wells

#14639

Overall Influence

Gary L. Wells is an American psychologist and an internationally recognized pioneer and scholar in eyewitness memory research. Wells is a professor at Iowa State University with a research interest in the integration of both cognitive psychology and social psychology and its interface with law. He has extensive research on lineup procedures and the reliability and accuracy of eyewitness identification, and has been widely acknowledged in both the field of psychology and the criminal justice system. Wells has received many awards and honorary degrees and been widely recognized for his work an...

#533

Mark Turner

#8690

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Grand Prix from the French Academy for his work in these fields. Turner and Gilles Fauconnier founded the theory of conceptual blending, presented in textbooks and encyclopedias. Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.

#534

Rubem Alves

#4310

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Rubem Azevedo Alves was a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer and psychoanalyst. Alves was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. Life Alves was born on 15 September 1933, in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He obtained his Bachelor of Theology degree at the Presbyterian Seminary in Campinas, Brazil, in 1957. He went on to obtain a Master of Theology from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, United States, in 1964. After completing this degree, Alves returned to Brazil amidst a US-sponsored military coup against the democratically elected Brazilian government.

#535

Michael Eigen

#23416

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Michael Eigen is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is the author of 26 books and numerous papers. He has given a private seminar on Winnicott, Bion, Lacan and his own work since the 1970s. Eigen is known for his work with patients "who had been given up on by others", including people who experience psychosis.

#536

Angela D. Friederici

Angela D. Friederici

#15366

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Angela Friederici is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychology and linguistics. She is the author of over 400 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books on linguistics, neuroscience, language and psychology.

#537

Suzanne Corkin

#11535

Overall Influence

1937 - 2016 (79 years)

Suzanne Corkin was an American professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She was a leading scholar in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. She is best known for her research on human memory, which she studied in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amnesia. She is also well known for studying H.M., a man with memory loss whom she met in 1962 and studied until his death in 2008.

#538

Anne Anastasi

#23569

Overall Influence

1908 - 2001 (93 years)

Anne Anastasi was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work, Psychological Testing, remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the individual being tested and therefore to the responsibilities of the testers. She called for them to go beyond test scores, to search the assessed individual's history to help them to better understand their own results and themselves.

#539

Catherine Millot

Catherine Millot

#16064

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Catherine Millot is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII. Millot studied philosophy before turning to psychoanalysis. In 1971 she started an eight-year analysis with Lacan, and attended his seminars from 1971 until his death. Her thesis, turned into the book Freud anti-pédagogue, argued that pedagogy could not be based on psychoanalysis, since the role of analyst involved a radical openness to lack which was incompatible with the role of teacher. In 1975 she started teaching in the department of psychoanalysis at Paris VIII.

#540

Zick Rubin

#15075

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Isaac Michael "Zick" Rubin is an American social psychologist, lawyer, and author. He is "widely credited as the author of the first empirical measurement of love," for his work distinguishing feelings of like from feelings of love via Rubin's Scales of Liking and Loving. Science Progress stated, "The major breakthrough in research on love came from the pioneer psychometric work of Zick Rubin."

#541

Gilbert Gottlieb

#19313

Overall Influence

1929 - 2006 (77 years)

Gilbert Gottlieb was an American psychologist. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Miami, he received his Ph.D. in the psychology - zoology program at Duke University. He observed the differences in bird development, by both observing egg hatching and manipulating variables important to bird development, including calls. Gottlieb's major contribution to the field of psychology was his theory of probabilistic epigenesis, which explains that there is no predetermined path to trait development. Gottlieb died 13 July 2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina, outlived by his wife, Nora Lee Willis Gottlieb, his children, Jonathan B.Gottlieb, Aaron L.

#542

David P. Farrington

David P. Farrington

#19368

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#543

Alvin Liberman

#11345

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

Alvin Meyer Liberman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception. Biography Liberman received his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1938, his M.A. degree from the University of Missouri in 1939 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1942. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of speech perception and laid the groundwork for modern computer speech synthesis and the understanding of critical issues in cognitive science.

#544

Derald Wing Sue

#7618

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Derald Wing Sue is a professor of counseling psychology at Columbia University. He has authored several books, including Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Overcoming our Racism, and Understanding Abnormal Behavior.

#545

John Garcia

#17585

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

John Garcia was an American psychologist, most known for his research on conditioned taste aversion. Garcia studied at the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in 1955 in his late forties. At his death, he was professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, he was an assistant professor at California State University at Long Beach, a lecturer in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, professor and chairman of the Psychology Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah.

#546

Ciarán O'Keeffe

#31496

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Ciarán James O'Keeffe is an English psychologist specialising in parapsychology and forensic psychology. Ciarán attended John Hampden Grammar school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and had a brief spell at High Wycombe Music Centre. He is currently employed at Bucks New University. He has held a research associate position at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail and also an online tutor position at Derby University. Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in psychology with a parapsychology component, O'Keeffe is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and an advisor to The Ghost Club.

#547

Richard Bentall

#14499

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Richard Bentall is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Early life Richard Pendrill Bentall was born in Sheffield in the United Kingdom. After attending Uppingham School in Rutland and then High Storrs School in his home town, he attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor as an undergraduate before registering for a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the same institution.

#548

Alice M. Isen

#16280

Overall Influence

Alice M. Isen was an American psychologist and Professor of Psychology and of Marketing at Cornell University. A prominent and widely published scholar, her research concerned the influence of "positive affect" on social interaction, thought processes, and decision making, including applications to organizational behavior, medical decision making, doctor-patient interaction, issues in services marketing, and issues related to brand equity and loyalty.

#549

Dan Olweus

#8018

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Dan Olweus was a Swedish-Norwegian psychologist. He was a research professor of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Olweus has been widely recognized as a pioneer of research on bullying.

#550

Jon Mills

#22803

Overall Influence

Jon Mills is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. His principle theoretical contributions have been in the philosophy of the unconscious, a critique of psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, value inquiry, and the philosophy of culture. His clinical contributions are in the areas of attachment pathology, trauma, psychosis, and psychic structure.

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