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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#2201

Connie Kasari

#103185

Overall Influence

Connie Kasari is an expert on autism spectrum disorder and a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment at the University of California, Los Angeles . Kasari is Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at UCLA and Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the leader of the Autism Intervention Research Network for Behavioral Health, a nine-institution research consortium.

#2202

Steve Omohundro

Steve Omohundro

#6458

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Stephen Malvern Omohundro is an American computer scientist whose areas of research include Hamiltonian physics, dynamical systems, programming languages, machine learning, machine vision, and the social implications of artificial intelligence. His current work uses rational economics to develop safe and beneficial intelligent technologies for better collaborative modeling, understanding, innovation, and decision making.

#2203

Mavis Tsai

#78427

Overall Influence

Mavis Tsai is a psychologist and author. She is a senior research scientist at the University of Washington. She is one of the creators of functional analytic psychotherapy . Tsai is the director specializing in FAP at the University of Washington's Psychological Services and Training Center. Her books have been translated to Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Persian.

#2204

Norman E. Amundson

#111268

Overall Influence

Norman E. Amundson is a professor of counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia. Biography Amundson has undertaken research on career development and on Canadian immigration issues. One reviewer said he has "a well-established, international reputation as a scholar and leader in career counselling, but what makes his work singular is that he is a public intellectual whose scholarship can be taken up by diverse communities."

#2205

John Gray

#27769

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

John Gray is an American relationship counselor, lecturer, and author. In 1969, he began a nine-year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career as an author and personal relationship counselor. In 1992 he published the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, which became a long-term best seller and formed the central theme of his subsequent books and career activities. His books have sold millions of copies.

#2206

Helen Haste

#91425

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Helen Elizabeth Haste , also known as Helen Weinreich-Haste, is a British social, developmental, and cultural psychologist and a writer and broadcaster. She is a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Bath. Haste also holds honorary visiting positions at the University of Exeter, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and the University of Jinan China.

#2207

BJ Casey

#51896

Overall Influence

BJ Casey is an American cognitive neuroscientist and expert on adolescent brain development and self control. She is the Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience at Barnard College of Columbia University where she directs the Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain Lab and is an Affiliated Professor of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, Yale University.

#2208

John J. Furedy

#79047

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

John J. Furedy was a Hungarian-born Australian and Canadian psychophysiologist and distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, noted for his extensive empirical research into the unreliability of the polygraph test in lie detection and similar problems associated with biofeedback, as well as addressing contemporary issues concerning academic freedom.

#2209

Katya Rubia

#86796

Overall Influence

Katya Rubia is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, both part of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

#2210

Alex Stajkovic

#67958

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Alex Stajkovic is an Organizational Behavior professor who has conducted research on confidence and goal priming. He holds the Dean's Professorship in Business at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research bears on self-efficacy, confidence, and primed goals. Stajkovic co-authored papers with Albert Bandura, Edwin Locke, and Fred Luthans. Stajkovic is a contributing editor to the Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association and Society for Science of Motivation.

#2211

J. Kurt Barling

#111640

Overall Influence

#2212

Shigehiro Oishi

#111666

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#2213

Douglas G. Bonett

#111707

Overall Influence

#2214

Karen Henwood

#103196

Overall Influence

Karen Henwood is a British social psychologist and Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, and an expert on identity and risk, particularly socio-cultural and environmental change. Her research in recent years includes the ESRC project "Timescapes" on relationships and identities through the life course, and a project on men as fathers, as well as research on energy use, sustainable development, climate change policy and on living with nuclear risk. She was editor-in-chief of Qualitative Research from 2016 to 2019.

#2215

Andrew H. Miller

#111784

Overall Influence

#2216

Arthur A Stone

#111805

Overall Influence

#2217

Dean Buonomano

#85317

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Dean Vincent Buonomano is an American neuroscientist and author. He is a professor at UCLA whose research focuses on neurocomputation and how the brain tells time. Buonomano has been described as one of the "first neuroscientists to begin to ask how the human brain encodes time" and has been published in various scientific journals. He is the author of two books, Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape our Lives and Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time. Buonomano's first book Brain Bugs examines the human brain's functional strengths and weaknesses, ultimately a...

#2218

Terry Jernigan

#92119

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Terry Lynne Jernigan is a neuropsychologist and the director of the Center for Human Development at University of California, San Diego. Education Jernigan graduated from University of California, Irvine with a bachelor's degree before earning a doctorate from University of California, Los Angeles. She interned and completed her postdoctoral research at Stanford University and Palo Alto VA Medical Center.

#2219

Nicholas Rawlins

#61808

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Nicholas Rawlins is a British experimental psychologist, and one of the pro-vice-chancellor and vice-president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Life Born in 1949, he is the only son of Sir John Rawlins and the grandson of Stuart Rawlins. He was educated at Westbury House School and Winchester College before reading for a BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at University College, Oxford. He was awarded first class honours in 1971. He subsequently studied for a D.Phil at Oxford under the supervision of Jeffrey Gray. He was married to the philosopher Susan Hurley from 1986 until h...

#2220

Per Saugstad

#91244

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Per Saugstad was a Norwegian psychologist. He was Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo, and is noted for his work on visual perception, thinking, language, and the history of psychology.

#2221

Eli Vakil

#35516

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Eli Vakil is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist. He is a professor emeritus and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology, and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University. He is also director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury in Jaffa, Israel.

#2222

George W. Howe

#103711

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

George W. Howe is an American psychologist and academic. Howe obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1981. He is a professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University, a member of Center for Contextual Genetics and Prevention Science and a vice-president of Family Process Institute. He is an associate editor of Journal of Family Psychology.

#2223

Judith Axler Turner

#112140

Overall Influence

#2224

Robert H. Logie

#112198

Overall Influence

#2225

Jean Addington

#107258

Overall Influence

Jean Addington is a Canadian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Calgary. Her research focus is on psychosis and schizophrenia with the goal of finding predictors and mechanisms for mental illness. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#2226

Bess Marcus

#102650

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Bess H. Marcus is an American clinical health psychologist and scholar of health behavior changes. She is currently Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University, having previously served as dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Before coming to Brown, Marcus was the founder of the UC San Diego Institute for Public Health and inaugural Senior Associate Dean for Public Health, at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

#2227

Charles M. Judd

#112279

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Charles M. Judd is an American social psychologist who is a College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder. External links Faculty page

#2228

Dezső Németh

#56240

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Dezső Németh is a Hungarian psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist at INSERM, research team leader in Lyon Neuroscience Research Center . Dezső Németh graduated from the Endre Ságvári High School, in 1994, Szeged. He learned psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University, 1994–1999. He graduated in 1999. He worked as a visiting professor at the Department of Neuroscience of Georgetown University in 2007-2008 and in 2011-2012 at University of Texas, Austin . He worked at the University of Szeged, Hungary and the Institute of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University .

#2229

Richard C. McCarty

Richard C. McCarty

#58693

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Richard C. McCarty is a professor of psychology and the former provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to serving as provost, he was dean of Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science.

#2230

Judith Harackiewicz

Judith Harackiewicz

#100125

Overall Influence

Judith Harackiewicz is an American social psychologist, focused on the role of motivation at the intersection of social and educational psychology. Harackiewicz is currently the Paul Pintrich Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, however in addition to this role she has also made numerous contributions to social psychology.

#2231

Michael John Brammer

#112350

Overall Influence

#2232

Andrew Winston

#74595

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Andrew Spencer Winston is a psychologist and historian who is an emeritus professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. He is known for his research on the history of scientific racism and eugenics in psychology. He was president of the Society for the History of Psychology in 2012, and served as Executive Officer to Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 2002 to 2008.

#2233

Claus Lamm

#84306

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Claus Lamm is a Professor of Biological Psychology and the head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the psychological and biological mechanisms underlying social cognition, affect, and behavior. His main research interest are the neural underpinnings of empathy, to whose understanding he has made pioneering contributions.

#2234

William Ryan

#45639

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

William J. Ryan, Jr. was a psychologist, civil rights activist and author. He is best known for his criticism of "blaming the victim", which was first published in his 1971 book of the same name. Ryan's work is considered a major structuralist rebuttal to the Moynihan Report. Moynihan's report placed most of the blame for African-American poverty rates on the rise of single-parent households, which Ryan vigorously rejected as blaming victims for their victimhood.

#2235

Andrzej Szmajke

#109060

Overall Influence

1953 - 2016 (63 years)

Andrzej Jerzy Szmajke – prominent Polish psychologist, author and professor of humanities . Professor Szmajke researched self-presentation, person perception, and specialized in personality and social psychology. His most significant work concerned the phenomena of self-handicapping, self-presentation, interpersonal attraction, egotism and multiple topics within evolutionary psychology. He was an academic teacher affiliated with University of Wrocław, University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw, and University of Opole. He served as the Director of Institute of Psychology at University of Opole from 2008 until his death.

#2236

Karen Emmorey

#32065

Overall Influence

Karen Denise Emmorey is a linguist and cognitive neuroscientist known for her research on the neuroscience of sign language and what sign languages reveal about the brain and human languages more generally. Emmorey holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University, where she directs the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience.

#2237

Jean Lipman-Blumen

#48325

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is an expert on leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, "hot groups" organizational behavior, gender roles, and toxic leadership. Lipman-Blumen is director and co-founder, with Prof. Richard Ellsworth, of CGU's Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership. She is president and co-founder, with Harold J. Leavitt, the Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, of th...

#2238

Stanislav V. Kasl,

#112792

Overall Influence

#2239

Lorenzo Cohen

#34589

Overall Influence

Lorenzo Cohen is a professor in the Department of General Oncology and Behavioral Science and the director of the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is also a distinguished clinical professor at the Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center in Shanghai, China. Cohen is a founding member and past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology.

#2240

Frederick Irving Herzberg

#112832

Overall Influence

#2241

Tim Dalgleish

#112839

Overall Influence

#2242

Joseph D. Matarazzo

#112882

Overall Influence

#2243

István Winkler

#85794

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

István Winkler is a Hungarian psychologist. He is Scientific Advisor and Head of the Department of General Psychology at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Institute of Psychology, Szeged, since 2008.

#2244

Claire Etaugh

#92942

Overall Influence

Claire Etaugh is an American psychologist. She is the former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and distinguished professor emerita and Caterpillar Professor of Psychology emerita at Bradley University.

#2245

Michael Siegal

#104134

Overall Influence

1950 - 2012 (62 years)

Michael Siegal, PhD, DSc was a developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist who was Marie Curie Chair in Psychology at the University of Trieste, Italy, and also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

#2246

Aldert Vrij

#112973

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

#2247

Michael J. Morgan

#70728

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael John Morgan FRS is a professor at City, University of London.. His area of research is the experimental psychology of vision, from neuroanatomy to perception and psychophysics. He was educated in Cowbridge Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005. He is married to the biologist Linda Partridge FRS.

#2248

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

#84198

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is an American bioengineer and neuroscientist. She is the founding Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute, the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

#2249

Roxane Cohen Silver

#99998

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Roxane Cohen Silver is a social, health psychologist known for her work on personal, national, and international traumas and how people cope with these traumas. She holds the position of Vice Provost for Academic Planning & Institutional Research and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Public Health, and Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.

#2250

Mat Thias C. Angermeyer

#113184

Overall Influence

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