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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#1951

Gabriele Mandel

Gabriele Mandel

#46156

Overall Influence

1924 - 2010 (86 years)

Gabriele Mandel was an Italian islamist, psychologist, writer, and artist of Afghan descent. Early life and education Mandel was the son of the Sufi and historian Yusuf Roberto Mandel and of the Jewish Writer Carlotta Rimini. His godfather was the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. A Muslim, Mandel promoted interfaith dialogue and peace-building throughout his life.

#1952

Barbara Engelking

Barbara Engelking

#24282

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

#1953

Richard A. Harshman

#96475

Overall Influence

Richard A. Harshman was a member of the Department of Psychology of the University of Western Ontario since 1976, rising in the ranks to the level of Full Professor. He died suddenly on Thursday, January 10, 2008.

#1954

Cathy Spatz Widom

Cathy Spatz Widom

#90904

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Cathy Spatz Widom is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of early childhood abuse and neglect. She has received the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research in 1989, the Edwin H. Sutherland Award in 2013, and the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2016. She was co-editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology from 2010 to 2013. Widom has conducted research to determine the long term consequences of early childhood physical and sexual abuse and child neglect.

#1955

Alan Berman

#71405

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Alan Lee Berman also known as Lanny Berman, is an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist. He is an adjunct professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Berman was formerly the executive director of the American Association of Suicidology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the International Association for Suicide Research. Berman has a private practice in psychological and forensic consultation.

#1956

Amy Shelton

#95321

Overall Influence

Amy Lynne Shelton is a U.S. cognitive psychology professor and academic administrator serving as the director of the Center for Talented Youth since 2022. She is a professor and associate dean for research at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

#1957

Bertram Gawronski

#96100

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Bertram Gawronski is a social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his research in the areas of attitudes, social cognition, decision making, and moral psychology.

#1958

Miron Zuckerman

#54347

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Miron Zuckerman is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Rochester. He is known for studying social cognition, nonverbal communication, and the psychology of religion.

#1959

Micha Popper

#70045

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Micha Popper is a professor emeritus in the department of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He was the commander of the Israel Defense Forces Leadership Development School, co-founder and director of the Institute for Quality Leadership in Israel, and, from 1995 he was a faculty member and head of the Organizational Psychology program at the University of Haifa.

#1960

Richard N. Aslin

#97683

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Richard N. Aslin is an American psychologist. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories and professor at Yale University. Until December, 2016, Dr. Aslin was William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Sciences at the University of Rochester. During his time in Rochester, he was also Director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging and the Rochester Baby Lab. He had worked at the university for over thirty years, until he resigned in protest of the university's handling of a sexual harassment complaint about a junior member of his departm...

#1961

Willis Overton

#95809

Overall Influence

Willis Franklin Overton, Jr. is an American psychologist whose research is in the fields of clinical and developmental psychology. He is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Temple University, where he was the chair of the psychology department from 2000 to 2006. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Divisions 7 , 12 , and 20 . He was formerly the president of the Jean Piaget Society and the Society for the Study of Human Development.

#1962

Laura L. Carstensen

#103110

Overall Influence

#1963

Craig Haney

#47179

Overall Influence

Craig Haney is an American social psychologist and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation since the 1970s. He was a researcher on The Stanford Prison Experiment.

#1964

Lynn S. Liben

#99662

Overall Influence

Lynn S. Liben is developmental psychologist known for her research on effects of gender and racial stereotypes on child development. Liben is an Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies, and Education at Pennsylvania State University.

#1965

Wendy Hollway

#99605

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Wendy Ann Hollway is a British psychologist specialising in feminist psychology, social psychology and qualitative methods. Biography Hollway was born in New Manchester in 1949. She studied psychology at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1971, and obtained a postgraduate certificate from Newcastle University in 1972. She then worked as a lecturer and awarded a PhD by the University of London in 1982. Over her career, Hollway has held positions at the University of Bristol, Birkbeck College, the University of Bradford, and the University of Leeds. She is currently an Emeritus Professo...

#1966

Jack Williams Brehm

#103282

Overall Influence

#1967

Jalie Tucker

#86929

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Jalie A Tucker is a professor of Health Education and Behavior at the University of Florida. She is known for her research on impulsive and harmful behaviors, such as alcohol and substance use, the effect of the environment on addiction, and natural resolutions to risky behavior including alcohol misuse. She has received numerous awards for excellence in clinical psychology and addiction research, including the 2015 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology from the Society of Clinical Psychology . She was honored by APA, Division 50 with the Presidential Award...

#1968

Anthony D'Augelli

#82400

Overall Influence

Anthony Raymond D'Augelli is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Outreach, as well as Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, at Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his LGB identity development theory, as well as his research on LGB youth, rural LGB populations, and the impact of anti-gay victimization on LGB mental health.

#1969

Peter Molenaar

#97379

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter C. M. Molenaar is a Dutch developmental and mathematical psychologist who is Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University . He is the editor-in-chief of Multivariate Behavioral Research.

#1970

Tyrone Cannon

#96245

Overall Influence

Tyrone Douglas Cannon is the Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University. His research focuses on neurobiological processes underlying psychological phenomena in people with mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Much of his research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has focused on developing approaches to prevent these disorders. A fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, he is the co-editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. He received the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award from Columbia University's Department of Ps...

#1971

Glenn A. Fry

#80785

Overall Influence

1908 - 1996 (88 years)

Glenn Ansel Fry was an American scientist who studied physiological optics and optometry. Life and work Fry was born in Wellford, South Carolina. His parents were Sebastian R. Fry and Amy Brown. Fry completed a Bachelor's degree at Davidson College, North Carolina in 1929 and a PhD in Psychology from Duke University in 1933.

#1972

Katie A. McLaughlin

#95692

Overall Influence

Katie A. McLaughlin is an American clinical psychologist and expert on how stress, trauma, and other adverse events, such as natural disorders or pandemics, affect behavioral and brain development during childhood and adolescence. McLaughlin is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

#1973

Asher Cohen

#13011

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Asher Cohen is an Israeli psychologist. He has been the 14th President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since September 1, 2017, and holds the university's Samuel Sturman Chair in Psychology. Biography Asher Cohen graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Psychology. He completed his doctoral and post-doctoral studies at the University of Oregon.

#1974

Paul Satz

#95055

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Paul Satz was an American psychologist, and one of the founders of the discipline neuropsychology. His research on the relationship between the brain and human behavior spanned diverse topics including laterality, handedness, and developmental disorders. He published over 300 publications, received numerous grants and awards, and established the first neuropsychology lab. Towards the latter part of his career, Satz's research interests focused more on the cognitive deficits associated with head injury, dementia, and ageing.

#1975

Whitman Richards

Whitman Richards

#61332

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Whitman Albin Richards was professor of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013.

#1976

Joseph Torgesen

#73172

Overall Influence

Joseph Torgesen is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education at Florida State University. At the time of his retirement from the university in 2008, he was the W. Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair of Psychology and Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research. Dr. Torgesen received his Ph.D. in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1976, and served on the Psychology faculty at FSU from 1976 until 2008.

#1977

Katie Witkiewitz

#91704

Overall Influence

Katie Witkiewitz is an American psychologist, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, & Addictions, and the Addictive Behaviors and Quantitative Research Lab.

#1978

Kenneth Zucker

#45470

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Kenneth J. Zucker is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist. He was named editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2001. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until December 2015. Zucker is a professor in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Toronto.

#1979

Linda Bartoshuk

#72098

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Linda May Bartoshuk is an American psychologist. She is a Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida. She is an internationally known researcher specializing in the chemical senses of taste and smell, having discovered that some people are supertasters.

#1980

Morten Kringelbach

#62928

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Morten L Kringelbach is a professor of neuroscience at University of Oxford, UK and Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the director of the 'Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing', fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and board member of the Empathy Museum.

#1981

Lise Abrams

#51599

Overall Influence

Lise Abrams is an American cognitive psychologist. She is the Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College and also serves as the chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science.

#1982

Shirley Collado

#34551

Overall Influence

Shirley M. Collado is an American psychology professor and academic administrator. She was the 9th president of Ithaca College. Collado was the second woman to hold the post and the first person of color. She is the first Dominican American to be named president of a four-year college in the United States. Prior to joining Ithaca, Collado was assistant professor of psychology, dean of the college and vice-president for student affairs at Middlebury College, then vice president for institutional planning and community engagement at Lafayette College. After returning to Middlebury College to ser...

#1983

Gregory J. Hancock

#104116

Overall Influence

#1984

Michael D. 최영섭 Mumford

#104152

Overall Influence

#1985

Jules P. Harrell

#103627

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Camara Jules P. Harrell , also known as Jules P. Harrell, is a professor of psychology at Howard University and a researcher in the field of the effects of stress and racism on the health of African Americans.

#1986

Betsy Becker

#83263

Overall Influence

Betsy Jane Becker is an American researcher on meta-analysis and educational psychometrics. She is the Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professor of Educational Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University, and previously served as the Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State. Becker is a co-author of a heavily cited consensus report on standards for meta-analysis in epidemiology.

#1987

Eivind Ystrøm

#91886

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Eivind Ystrøm is a Norwegian psychologist, Professor of Personality Psychology at the University of Oslo and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. His research fields include genetics, substance use and personality, including intergenerational transmission of depression and other mental illnesses. According to Google Scholar, he has been cited 2,500 times in scientific literature and has an h-index of 26.

#1988

Brian Wandell

#63990

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Brian A. Wandell is the Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute. He was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Vision Science.

#1989

Jean‐claude Baron

#104273

Overall Influence

#1990

William C. Reeves

#104302

Overall Influence

#1991

Wendy Johnson

#73620

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Wendy Johnson is an American differential psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She holds the chair in Differential Development in the Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.

#1992

Janet Polivy

#104332

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

#1993

Eric Courchesne

#60869

Overall Influence

Eric Courchesne is an autism researcher and Professor of Neurosciences in University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Director of the UCSD Autism Center located in La Jolla, California.

#1994

Keith F. Widaman

#104458

Overall Influence

#1995

Marco Mt. Trabucchi

#104467

Overall Influence

#1996

Wilhelm Kempf

#63545

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Wilhelm Kempf is an Austrian born psychologist and peace researcher who has made significant contributions to theoretical psychology, psychological methodology and peace research. Alongside of Johan Galtung, Kempf is one of the founders of the concept of peace journalism, which he, in contrast to Galtung, however, does not conceive of as a form of advocacy journalism, but rather understands as a trans-disciplinary research program which has as its object the possibilities of and limits to maintaining journalistic quality norms during war and crisis situations, and to overcome the communicatio...

#1997

John M. O’keefe

#104495

Overall Influence

#1998

Erin Bigler

#103158

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Erin David Bigler is a retired American neuropsychologist and the Susa Young Gates Professor at Brigham Young University , where he was a professor of psychology and neuroscience. He is known for his neuroimaging research. He was president of the National Academy of Neuropsychology from 1989 to 1990 and of the International Neuropsychological Society from 2014 to 2015. He founded the Brain Imaging and Behavior Laboratory at BYU in 1990, and chaired the Psychology Department there from 1996 to 2002. He has been the first director of BYU's Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Facility since 201...

#1999

Jeremy N. V. Miles

#104508

Overall Influence

#2000

Simine Vazire

#90050

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Simine Vazire is Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She is a social and personality psychologist who studies how self-perception and self-knowledge influence one's personality and behavior. She obtained a PhD in the social and personality psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin.

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