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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#1101

Michael Lewis

#30917

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Michael Lewis is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also professor of psychology, education, and biomedical engineering and serves on the Executive Committee of the Cognitive Science Center at Rutgers. He is also founding director of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Autism Center. He received his PhD in 1962 from the University of Pennsylvania in both clinical and experimental psychology.

#1102

Morten H. Christiansen

#40444

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Morten H. Christiansen is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and connectionist modeling of human language acquisition. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. His research has produced evidence for considering language to be a cultural system that is shaped by general-purpose cognitive and learning mechanisms, rather than from innate language-specific ...

#1103

Marvin Goldfried

#46629

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Marvin R. Goldfried is an American psychologist. His area of interest includes LGBT issues and psychotherapy integration. Early life Marvin Goldfried was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to parents from Eastern Europe. He was the first in his family to pursue education past high school. He majored in psychology at Brooklyn College. He completed graduate education in clinical psychology at University at Buffalo. During his graduate studies, he completed a summer internship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He earned his degree in 1961.

#1104

Kobi Kambon

#50628

Overall Influence

1943 - 2018 (75 years)

Kobi Kazembe Kambon was a black educator and psychologist. His research has been particularly influential in areas relating to African Psychology, cultural survival in the face of cultural oppression, and mental health. A former National President of the Association of Black Psychologists , Kambon has published well over 60 scholarly articles, and has written five books, including two textbooks that are frequently used in Psychology and Black Studies courses across the country.

#1105

Cynthia M. Bulik

#38644

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Cynthia Marie Bulik is an American psychologist and author. Bulik is perhaps best known for her clinical work and research on eating disorders in the United States. She is the Founding Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, the founder and director of the Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, a Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

#1106

Marlene Scardamalia

#15032

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Marlene Scardamalia is an education researcher, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Contributions She is considered one of the pioneers in computer-supported collaborative learning. Other areas of research where Scardamalia made contributions are:Cognitive developmentEducational uses of computersIntentional learningThe nature of expertisePsychology of writingResearch-based innovation in learning and knowledge workKnowledge innovation.Since the 1980s she supervised the design, development and research of Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments .

#1107

Gustav Jahoda

#44033

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

Gustav Jahoda, FBA, FRSE was an Austrian-born psychologist who made a sustained contribution to the development of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology. Biography and career He was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Leopold Jahoda, a lawyer, was his father and Olga his mother. He initially attended school in Vienna but was expelled because of his Jewish background. He then spent a year attending school in Paris. His family moved there after the Anschluss. In Paris, he studied civil engineering. With the outbreak of war, he joined the French army but when the French front collapsed he escaped to England.

#1108

Barry Komisaruk

#15956

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Barry R. Komisaruk is an American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He is known for his works on sexology and sex therapy. Books The Orgasm Answer Guide with Beverly Whipple, Sara Nasserzadeh and Carlos Beyer-FloresThe Science of Orgasm with Beverly Whipple and Carlos Beyer-Flores

#1109

Christopher D. Green

#43104

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Christopher Darren Green is professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been cross-appointed to the graduate philosophy and science and technology studies programs as well. His research mostly pertains to the history of psychology, though he also writes on methodological and statistical issues in psychology.

#1110

Trevor Harley

#62889

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Trevor Harley is emeritus chair of Cognitive Psychology. His primary research is in the psychology of language and consciousness. From 2003 until 2016 he was Head and Dean of the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is author of several books, including "The Psychology of Language", currently in its fourth edition, published by Psychology Press, "Talking the talk", a book about the psychology of language aimed at a more general audience, "The Science of Consciousness", a general text on consciousness, and "The Psychology of Weather", about how weather affects behaviour.

#1111

Leonard W. Doob

#52766

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Leonard William Doob was an American academic who worked as the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and was a pioneering figure in the fields of cognitive and social psychology, propaganda and communication studies, as well as conflict resolution. He served as director of overseas intelligence for the United States Office of War Information in World War II and also wrote several works intersecting cognition, psychology and philosophy.

#1112

Phillip Atiba Goff

#41941

Overall Influence

Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.

#1113

Barbara Sahakian

#26557

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, is professor of clinical neuropsychology at the department of psychiatry and Medical Research Council /Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge. She is also an honorary clinical psychologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging.

#1114

Marcia Linn

#44135

Overall Influence

Marcia C. Linn is a professor of development and cognition. Linn, specializes in education in mathematics, science, and technology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1970, Linn has made contributions to the understanding of the use of computers and technology to support learning and teaching in mathematics and science.

#1115

Peter Gärdenfors

Peter Gärdenfors

#18769

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Björn Peter Gärdenfors is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden. Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize . He received his doctorate from Lund University in 1974. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers. In 1996, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and in 2009 he became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher and of Academia Europaea. In 2014 Gärdenfors was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.

#1116

Wendell Garner

#55343

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Wendell R. Garner was a Yale University psychology researcher credited with making significant contributions to the cognitive revolution, in which George Miller and others applied emerging research from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science to test ideas about human mental processes.

#1117

Mark Schaller

#50931

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Mark Schaller is a psychological scientist who has made many contributions to the study of human psychology, particularly in areas of social cognition, stereotyping, evolutionary psychology, and cultural psychology. He is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

#1118

David M. Green

#67378

Overall Influence

#1119

Frank L. Schmidt

#67508

Overall Influence

#1120

Michael Cole

#14315

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Michael Cole is an American psychologist and emeritus distinguished professor at the University of California, San Diego , where he held positions in the Department of Psychology, the Department of Communication, and the Human Development Program. His research focuses on the development of a mediational theory of mind, as well as the promotion of partnerships between UCSD and the community.

#1121

George Levinger

#34533

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

George Levinger was Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Born in Berlin, Germany, he fled the Nazi regime with his Jewish family in 1935, first moving to Switzerland and then to London, before emigrating to the United States in 1941. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1946. After his army service in Tokyo and time in the import-export business, he received a 1951 M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and a 1955 Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. He later taught at Bryn Mawr College , Wes...

#1122

Stuart W. Cook

#45881

Overall Influence

1913 - 1993 (80 years)

Stuart Wellford Cook was an American social psychologist known for his research on the societal effects of racism and religious intolerance. He is particularly known for a study he conducted with Isidor Chein and Kenneth Bancroft Clark on the psychological effects of racial segregation. This study was cited by the appellates in the 1954 landmark United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. His research also focused on many other psychological subjects, including clinical psychology, military psychology, and psychological research methods.

#1123

Robert E. Kraut

Robert E. Kraut

#33372

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Robert E. Kraut is an American social psychologist who studies human-computer interaction, online communities, internet use, group coordination, computers in organizations, and the role of visual elements in interpersonal communication. He is a Herbert Simon University Professor Emeritus of Human-computer Interaction at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

#1124

Daniel R. Anderson

#35636

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Daniel R. Anderson is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Anderson specializes in developmental psychology and was involved in the creation of children's television series including Allegra's Window, Gullah Gullah Island, Bear in the Big Blue House, Blue's Clues, and Dora the Explorer. He has also acted as an advisor to Captain Kangaroo, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, Fimbles, Go, Diego, Go!, It's a Big Big World, Peep and the Big Wide World and The WotWots.

#1125

Tõnu Lehtsaar

#67684

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Tõnu Lehtsaar is an Estonian psychologist. In 1983, he graduated from Tartu State University in psychology. From 2000 until 2016, he was a professor of psychology of religion at the University of Tartu. From 2006 to 2007 and again from 2017 to 2018, he was the acting rector of the University of Tartu.

#1126

Jürgen Kriz

#46430

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Jürgen Kriz is a German psychologist, psychotherapist and emeritus professor for psychotherapy and clinical psychology at the Osnabrück University, Germany. He is a prominent thinker in systems theory and the founder of the person-centered systems theory – a multi-level concept for the understanding of processes in psychotherapy, counseling, coaching and clinical psychology.

#1127

Linda Mealey

#40894

Overall Influence

1955 - 2002 (47 years)

Linda Jeanne Mealey was an American evolutionary psychologist and professor at the College of Saint Benedict. Biography Mealey was born in San Diego, California on December 17, 1955, and grew up mainly in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in December 1984. She joined the faculty of the College of Saint Benedict in 1985 as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor there in 1991. She was affiliated with the University of Queensland's School of Psychology from 1996 to 1998, and remained an adjunct professor there until her death from ca...

#1128

Paul B. Baltes

#67725

Overall Influence

#1129

Erlendur Haraldsson

#26078

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Erlendur Haraldsson was a professor emeritus of psychology on the faculty of social science at the University of Iceland. He published in various psychology and psychiatry journals. In addition, he published parapsychology books and authored a number of papers for parapsychology journals.

#1130

David Perrett

#48765

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

David Ian Perrett FBA FRSE is a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he leads the Perception Lab. The main focus in his team's research is on face perception, including facial cues to health, effects of physiological conditions on facial appearance, and facial preferences in social settings such as trust games and mate choice. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, many of which appearing in leading scientific journals such as the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences, Psychological Science, and Nature.

#1131

Stephen G. West

#67622

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Stephen Gano West is an American quantitative psychologist and professor of psychology at Arizona State University. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Personality from 1986 to 1991, of Psychological Methods from 2001 to 2007, and of Multivariate Behavioral Research in 2015. He was also the president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology from 2007 to 2008. He was educated at Cornell University and the University of Texas at Austin, and received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Murray Award in 2000.

#1132

Jack Naglieri

#60468

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jack Anthony Naglieri is an American school psychologist and research professor at the University of Virginia. He is also a senior research scientist at the Devereux Center for Resilient Children and an emeritus professor at George Mason University, as well as a former professor at Ohio State University. He is known for his development of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test and the Das–Naglieri cognitive assessment system.

#1133

Kent Norman

#32429

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Kent L. Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on computer rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Iowa in 1973.

#1134

Leonard Eron

#57731

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Leonard David Eron was an American psychologist who conducted one of the longest spanning longitudinal studies on aggressive behavior in children to date. Based on Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann's second longitudinal study that they conducted between 1977 and 1995, lead to the conclusion that media violence causes aggressive behavior. Eron was an author of many books, articles and a constant public policy advocate on Capitol Hill. He also twice received Fulbright scholarship and the APA's Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology.

#1135

Lyman W. Porter

#39921

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Lyman W. Porter was an American academic administrator. He was the dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine from 1972 to 1983. He was the co-author of many books of management, and "one of the primary founders of the study of organizational behavior."

#1136

Harry Reis

#36825

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Harry Reis is a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester. He has been a leading figure in the field of social psychology, credited with helping to launch the study of relationship science and notable for his contribution to theories of intimacy. His research encompasses emotional regulation, the factors that influence social interaction, and consequences of different socializing patterns for health and psychological well-being.

#1137

Deanna Barch

#64054

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Deanna Marie Barch is an American psychologist. She is a chair and professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research includes disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, cognitive and language deficits. She also focuses on behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. Barch is a deputy editor at Biological Psychiatry. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.

#1138

Douglas N. Jackson

#48954

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Douglas Northrop Jackson II was a Canadian psychology professor best known for his work in human assessment and psychological testing. Life and career Born in Merrick, New York, Jackson graduated from Cornell University in 1951 with a BSc in Industrial and Labor Relations and from Purdue University in 1955 with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Jackson taught at Pennsylvania State University and Stanford University before starting at University of Western Ontario in 1964, where he taught for over 32 years.

#1139

Jan Koenderink

#24673

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Jan Johan Koenderink is a Dutch physicist and psychologist known for his researches on visual perception, computer vision, and geometry. Koenderink earned a bachelor's degree from Utrecht University in 1964, a master's in 1967, and a Ph.D. in 1972 on a thesis titled Models of the visual system. He was a full professor of physics and astronomy at Utrecht University from 1978 until his mandatory retirement in 2008; since then, he has held fellow or visiting professor positions at Utrecht, the Delft University of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Katholieke Universiteit...

#1140

William Fleeson

#60650

Overall Influence

William Fleeson is an American personality psychologist. He is the Hultquist Family Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan after completing a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of Association for Research in Personality in 2012. He was awarded the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Theoretical Innovation Prize in 2002 and the SPSP Carol and Ed Diener Award in Personality Psychology in 2016.

#1141

Phoebe C. Ellsworth

#37530

Overall Influence

Phoebe C. Ellsworth is an American social psychologist and professor at the University of Michigan, holding dual appointments at the Psychology Department and in the Law School. Biography Ellsworth received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1966 and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University in 1970.

#1142

Robert Gerlai

#45853

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Robert T. Gerlai is a Canadian behaviour geneticist. Early life and education Gerlai obtained his PhD in 1987 from the Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Career Gerlai has worked in the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical research industries as Senior Scientist and Vice President of Research, and led pre-clinical as well as clinical research teams developing drugs to treat mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's Disease. He also worked at different universities in North America and Europe. He is a Distinguished Professor of behavioral neuroscience ...

#1143

Martin Stanton

#50170

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martin Stanton is a British writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. Biography He is known for his pioneering work in establishing Psychoanalytic Studies as a distinct and thriving academic subject that is now taught in universities around the world – he founded the first prototype Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, in 1986. He is equally known for his innovative and challenging work on the nature and function of unconscious processes. This began this with his first book Outside the Dream – and originally and free-associatively explored the vital impact of Lacanian thinking on contemporary psychoanalysis at that time .

#1144

Deanna Kuhn

#46807

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Deanna Zipse Kuhn is an American psychologist. She is Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is known for contributions to the psychology of science – the scientific study of scientific thought and behavior. Her research program has focused on the development of scientific reasoning skills, critical thinking, metacognition, informal reasoning, and constructivist teaching methods, such as problem-based learning and collaborative learning.

#1145

Nancy Cole

#43776

Overall Influence

Nancy Cole is an educational psychologist and expert on educational assessment. Cole is past president of the American Educational Research Association and the Educational Testing Service , and former Dean of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina. Her undergraduate education in psychology was at Rice University .

#1146

J. A. Scott Kelso

#8391

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

J. A. Scott Kelso is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and The University of Ulster in Derry, N. Ireland.

#1147

Andrew Whiten

#48870

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

David Andrew Whiten, known as Andrew Whiten is a British zoologist and psychologist, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, and Professor Wardlaw Emeritus at University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is known for his research in social cognition, specifically on social learning, tradition and the evolution of culture, social Machiavellian intelligence, autism and imitation, as well as the behavioral ecology of sociality. In 1996, Whiten and his colleagues invented an artificial fruit that allowed to study learning in apes and humans.

#1148

William Uttal

#47227

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

William Reichenstein Uttal was an American psychologist and engineer known for his criticism of cognitive neuroscience, and for his advocacy for distributed neural processing. In Uttal's obituary in the American Journal of Psychology, Stanley Coren wrote that "His distinguished academic career is difficult to classify, but his specialty probably should be put under the heading "cognitive science"."

#1149

Mary P. Koss

#36378

Overall Influence

Mary P. Koss is an American Regents' Professor at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in Tucson, Arizona. Her best known works have been in the areas of gender-based violence and restorative justice.

#1150

Jan van der Lans

#25566

Overall Influence

1933 - 2002 (69 years)

Johannes Maria van der Lans was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen . Education Van der Lans was born in The Hague. After his secondary education he studied from 1953 until 1960 philosophy and theology at the abbey of Berne in Heeswijk. He was a member of this monastery until 1968. He started studying psychology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1961. One of his teachers was Han Fortmann. In 1967 he was accepted as a full-time employee of the university. In 1978 he received his doctorate for his dissertation on Religious experienc...

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