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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#1651

Lance Workman

#71105

Overall Influence

Lance Workman is a British psychologist whose specialisms include biological psychology, clinical psychology, and evolutionary psychology. He currently teaches on the psychology undergraduate programme at Bath Spa University. He is an Associate Fellow of and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.

#1652

William B. Michael

#88658

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

William Burton Michael , a student of J. P. Guilford, earned his Ph.D. in quantitative psychometric methods from the University of Southern California. He started his teaching career at Princeton University, and in 1952 joined the faculty at University of Southern California, where he received a joint appointment as an associate professor in psychology and education and as the director of the USC Testing Bureau. Michael authored over 500 publications on test construction, measurement and evaluation, and personality assessment. He also co-chaired a joint committee of the American Psychological ...

#1653

Rachel Barr

#60118

Overall Influence

Rachel Barr is a professor at Georgetown University. She is currently the co-director of graduate studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on understanding the learning and memory mechanisms that develop during infancy. Because infants are preverbal, her techniques rely on imitation and learning methods to find out what infants have learned and how well and how long they remember it. Her previous research has focused on how infants pick up information from different media sources, television, siblings, adults, and different contexts. Most recently...

#1654

Brian Knutson

#52067

Overall Influence

Brian Knutson is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University and director of the Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotion, and has been covered in multiple news sources.

#1655

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

#63433

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. is an American psychologist known for his behavioral genetics studies of twins raised apart. He is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research at the University of Minnesota. Bouchard received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.

#1656

Gregory Kimble

#56043

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

Gregory Adams Kimble was an American general psychologist and a professor at Duke University, a position from which he retired in 1984. He was known for his efforts to unify psychology as a single scientific discipline, and for his lifelong devotion to behaviorism. He also served as an advisor to the magazine Psychology Today in the 1980s, when it was owned by the American Psychological Association , of which he became a fellow in 1951. His positions at the APA itself included presidency of its Divisions of General Psychology and Experimental Psychology. He received the APA's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in 1999, as well as the C.

#1657

Leonard A. Jason

#16906

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Leonard A. Jason is a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he also directs the Center for Community Research. His chief professional interests include the study of chronic fatigue syndrome , violence prevention, smoking cessation, and Oxford House recovery homes for substance abuse. Jason's interest in chronic fatigue syndrome began when he was diagnosed with the condition in 1990 after having mononucleosis.

#1658

Kevin Cokley

#67536

Overall Influence

Kevin Cokley is an African-American counselling psychologist, academic and researcher. He is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Associate Chair of Diversity Initiatives, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Previously he was the Oscar and Anne Mauzy Regents Professor of Educational Research and Development, Department Chair of Educational Psychology, and Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directed the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis. He was a Fellow of the UT Syste...

#1659

Robert K Heaton

#92061

Overall Influence

#1660

Darcia Narvaez

#60222

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame who has written extensively on issues of character, moral development, and human flourishing. Biography Narvaez was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father, Richard Narvaez, was a professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Minnesota. Darcia Narvaez spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. Her first job was with the local public television station in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a 8- and 9-year-old: she was the voice of the puppet, Maria, on the Spanish-language-teachi...

#1661

Thomas A. Widiger

#92123

Overall Influence

#1662

Wendy M. Williams

#50830

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Wendy M. Williams is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of intelligence with regards to training and development. Williams is a professor at Cornell University in their Department of Human Development. Williams is also the founder of the Cornell Institute for Women in Science , a center with the intended purpose for studying and promoting women in science. Working alongside the National Science Foundation, Williams leads the "Thinking Like a Scientist" program, which intends to diversify the science community by getting girls and other underrepresented groups in...

#1663

Carol D. Goodheart

#71178

Overall Influence

Carol D. Goodheart is an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association . Goodheart worked as a nurse before entering psychology. She completed a doctorate in counseling psychology from Rutgers University. While serving as the 2010 APA president, Goodheart supported the Presidential Task Force on Advancing Practice and the Presidential Task Force on Caregivers. Goodheart is in private practice in Princeton, New Jersey.

#1664

Linda Skitka

#64682

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Linda J. Skitka is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Skitka's research bridges a number of areas of inquiry including social, political, and moral psychology. Publications She has authored or co-authored papers for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Justice Research, and Political Psychology. She is best known for her research into justice and fairness, moral conviction, and political reasoning.

#1665

Thomas Widiger

#46824

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Thomas A. Widiger is an American clinical psychologist who researches the diagnosis and classification of psychopathology. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, editor of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, and co-editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

#1666

David Loran Spiegel

#92282

Overall Influence

#1667

Cameron S. Carter,

#92285

Overall Influence

#1668

Kenneth Hugdahl

#88130

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

, Professor emeritus Kenneth Hugdahl is a Swedish psychologist. married to Märit 1973-2016, two children Anna and Emilia He took his doctor's degree at the Uppsala University in 1977. He worked as a researcher there from 1980, and in 1984 he was appointed professor at the University of Bergen. His main research interests are brain asymmetry and dichotic listening, cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, and neurobiology of auditory hallucinations. He has published over 300 articles in international peer reviewed journals, including in high impact factor journals, such as Brain and Proceed...

#1669

Jan Haaken

#82260

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Janice Kay "Jan" Haaken is an American clinical psychologist, documentarian, and professor emeritus of Community and Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Portland State University.

#1670

Tina Malti

#62713

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Tina Malti is a Canadian-German child psychologist of Palestinian descent. She currently holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Early Child Development and Health as the first child psychologist and female psychologist in the award's history. She directs the Alexander von Humboldt Research Group for Child Development as research chair at Leipzig University. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and founding director of the Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy at the University of Toronto.

#1671

Camille Wortman

#85950

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Camille B. Wortman is a clinical health psychologist and expert on grief and coping in response to traumatic events and loss. She is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. Wortman received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution in Social Psychology in 1980, in recognition of her research "providing stimulating and influential analyses of how people react to uncontrollable outcomes and cope with undesirable life events." She was the recipient of a joint award from the APA Science Directorate and the Nationa...

#1672

Edmund Sonuga-Barke

#83801

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, , is a developmental psychologist and academic. He has held professorships at King's College London and the University of Southampton . Early life and education Edmund James Stephen Barke was born in Derby in 1962; he later adopted a double-barrelled surname for his academic work, combining his family name with that of his wife, Funke Sonuga, whom he married in 1987. They have two children. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1984, and four years later the University of Exeter a...

#1673

Avishai Henik

#72401

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Avishai Henik is an Israeli neurocognitive psychologist who works at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Henik studies voluntary and automatic processes involved in cognitive operations. He characterizes automatic processes , and clarifies their importance, the relationship between automatic and voluntary processes, and their neural underpinnings. Most of his work involves research with human participants and in recent years, he has been working with Archer fish in order to examine evolutionary aspects of various cognitive functions.

#1674

Emily Simonoff

#45983

Overall Influence

Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Neuropsychiatry Service, head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department at the Institute of Psychiatry and lead for the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group at King's Health Partners, King's College London.

#1675

Thomas F. Babor

#92690

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#1676

Francis J Keefe

#92726

Overall Influence

#1677

Michael Wehmeyer

#79391

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Michael Lee Wehmeyer is the Ross and Marianna Beach Distinguished Professor in Special Education in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on self-determination and self-determined learning, the application of positive psychology and strengths-based approaches to disability, and the education of students with intellectual or developmental disabilities. He is Director and Senior Scientist at Kansas University's Beach Center on Disability. He formerly directed the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities.

#1678

Wayne Velicer

#92137

Overall Influence

1944 - 2017 (73 years)

Wayne Velicer was an American psychologist known for his research in quantitative and health psychology. He taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1973 until his death in 2017. He worked with James O. Prochaska to help to found the University of Rhode Island's Cancer Prevention Research Center, of which he subsequently served as co-director.

#1679

John Jonides

#91058

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

John Jonides is an American cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist. He is the Edward E. Smith Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1995 and of the Society of Experimental Psychologists since 1996. He is known for his research on the malleability of human intelligence, and on the effects of Facebook use on happiness and life satisfaction. In 2011, he received the Association for Psychological Science's William James Fellow Award.

#1680

Richard E. Snow

#77500

Overall Influence

1936 - 1997 (61 years)

Richard Eric Snow was an American educational psychologist. He worked on learning styles. He was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1936. He was an important collaborator of Lee Cronbach's in his research on human ability in the 1970s.

#1681

Eric Schopler

#22164

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Eric Schopler was a German born American psychologist whose pioneering research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program. Personal life Eric Schopler was born February 8, 1927, in Fürth, Germany to Erna Oppenheimer Schopler and Ernst Schopler, who were Jewish. In 1938 his family fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to the U.S., where they settled in Rochester, New York.

#1682

David G. Rand

#51565

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

David G. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Rand grew up in Ithaca, New York, where his father is a professor at Cornell University. As a teenager he was in several rock bands including solo project Robot Goes Here

#1683

Debra Pepler

#18234

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Debra Pepler is a Canadian psychologist known for her research and advocacy within the field of childhood aggression and bullying. She is currently a distinguished research professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

#1684

Molly Harrower

#50525

Overall Influence

1906 - 1999 (93 years)

Molly Harrower was an American clinical psychologist. During the Second World War she created a large-scale multiple choice Rorschach test. She was one of the first clinical psychologists to open a private practice. Specializing in diagnostics, Harrower developed a scale allowing practitioners to predict which patients would profit from psychotherapy.

#1685

Lori L. Holt

#82773

Overall Influence

Lori L. Holt is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in speech perception, focusing on how general perceptual and cognitive mechanisms contribute to speech perception and how speech can be used to broadly understand auditory cognition. In pursuit of these research areas, she has employed human perceptual and learning paradigms as well as animal behavioral experiments and computational models. Holt received a B.S. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology with a minor in neurophysiology from UW–Madison in 1999.

#1686

Sonia Ancoli–israel

#93108

Overall Influence

#1687

James V. Haxby

#76898

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

James Van Loan Haxby is an American neuroscientist. He currently is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and was the Director for the Dartmouth Center for Cognitive Neuroscience from 2008 to 2021. He is best known for his work on face perception and applications of machine learning in functional neuroimaging.

#1688

Ferdinand Knobloch

#78292

Overall Influence

1916 - 2018 (102 years)

Ferdinand Knobloch CSc.[Cz], F. R. C. P. was a Czech-Canadian psychiatrist and professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia. Knobloch was born in Prague in August 1916. He spent two years in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and his first wife Zuzana was murdered in Auschwitz. He established, with his second wife, Jirina Knobloch, a type of psychotherapy called integrated psychotherapy . He turned 100 in August 2016 and died in January 2018 at the age of 101.

#1689

Clifford Stott

#36871

Overall Influence

Clifford John Thornton Stott is professor of social psychology at Keele University. He is a specialist in the psychology of crowds, group identity, and football hooliganism. Research His initial research interest was in political dissent and this led to research into how peaceful protests change to become violent through observing the psychology of crowds. His work indicated that, rather than riots being driven by hooligans who are predisposed to violence , they are structured and led by beliefs. The majority of the crowd consider that they are peaceful protestors with a right to express their views.

#1690

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg

#82985

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is a Dutch psychologist focused attachment and emotion regulation in parents and their children, with special emphasis on the neurobiological processes involved in parenting and development. She is currently a Full Professor at Ispa-Instituto Universitário , a visiting Scholar & Research Associate in the Center for Attachment Research at The New School for Social Research , and a visiting Consultant at the National Institute of Education of the Nanyang Technological University .

#1691

John Aggleton

#77524

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

John Aggleton FRS FMedSci FLSW is a British behavioural neuroscientist. Education and career Aggleton obtained his B.A. in natural sciences in 1976 at Cambridge University and his Ph.D. with his thesis entitled Anatomical and Functional Subdivisions of the Amygdala in 1980 from the University of Oxford. From 1983 he was first lecturer and then from 1992 senior lecturer in the department of psychology at the University of Durham. Since 1994, he has been professor of cognitive neuroscience at Cardiff University, where he studies the architecture of the brain and how various brain structures wor...

#1692

Elena Grigorenko

#79968

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Elena L. Grigorenko is an American clinical psychologist and the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, where she has taught since September 2015. She is also a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine.

#1693

Lev Vekker

#72281

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Lev Markovich Vekker, Russian: Лев Маркович Веккер was a Russian and American psychologist. Vekker was a George Mason University professor of psychology and director/CEO of the Krasnow Institute. His research focused on the problems of objectivity of human cognition. Vekker advanced a general theory of cognitive processes.

#1694

Adam Galinsky

#47412

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Adam Daniel Galinsky is an American social psychologist known for his research on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics. He is Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business and Chair of Management Division at Columbia Business School.

#1695

Blake E. Ashforth

#93677

Overall Influence

#1696

Hans Ormel

#88549

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Johan "Hans" Ormel is a psychiatric epidemiologist known for his scientific work in clinical and health psychology, psychiatry, gerontology and medical sociology. Officially retired since 2014, Ormel continues to teach psychiatric epidemiology and to participate in research projects.

#1697

Earl K. Miller

#73529

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Earl Keith Miller is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on neural mechanisms of cognitive, or executive, control. Earl K. Miller is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of SplitSage.

#1698

Jude Cassidy

#71048

Overall Influence

Jude Anne Cassidy is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. Cassidy was awarded the American Psychological Association Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award in 1991 for her early career contributions to Developmental Psychology. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 7 and the Association for Psychological Science.

#1699

Lindon Eaves

#63055

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Lindon J. Eaves was a behavior geneticist and priest who has published on topics as diverse as the heritability of religion and psychopathology. His research encompasses the development of mathematical models reflecting competing theories of the causes and familial transmission of human human differences, the design of studies for the resolution, analytical methods for parameter estimation and hypothesis-testing and application to substantive questions about specific traits. He was the first to consider standardized variance components for heritability estimates and was the first to consider the effects of living with a relative on the behavior of a person.

#1700

Murray Shanahan

#18370

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Murray Patrick Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London, in the Department of Computing, and a senior scientist at DeepMind. He researches artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive science.

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