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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#2601

Theodore Wachs

#107990

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Theodore D. Wachs is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He has studied the effects of environmental factors, such as noise, on children's mental development. He has also conducted research in the field of behavioral genetics. Wachs was one of the founders of the Global Child Development Group in 2007.

#2602

Gisela Pankow

#51097

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Gisela Pankow was a French psychoanalyst.

#2603

Martin I. Sereno

#125637

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#2604

Jonathan Plucker

#113788

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jonathan Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development at Johns Hopkins University, where he works in the School of Education and the Center for Talented Youth. He previously served as Raymond Neag Endowed Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut and as a professor of educational psychology and cognitive science at Indiana University. A scholar of creativity, intelligence, and education policy, he is the author of over 200 papers and author or editor of four books: Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education with Carolyn Callahan , Essentials of Creativity Assessment with James Kaufman and John Baer, and Intelligence 101 with Amber Esping.

#2605

Arthur H. Crisp

#125660

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#2606

Steven A. Sloman

#125666

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#2607

Theodore William Berger

#125747

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#2608

Stephen T. Higgins

#125766

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#2609

Paul Wehman

#105969

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Paul Wehman is a professor of counseling and special education at the School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University. He also is Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. He holds a B.B.A. from Western Illinois University , an M.S. in psychology from Illinois State University , and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Disabilities/Rehabilitation Psychology from University of Wisconsin–Madison .

#2610

Hans‐lukas Teuber

#125845

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#2611

Rory C. O’connor

#125856

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#2612

Lynn Frazier

#125900

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#2613

James R. Lackner

#125917

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#2614

Anna Borghi

#32521

Overall Influence

Anna M. Borghi is a cognitive psychologist known for her work on embodied cognition and embodied language comprehension. She is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome and an associate researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council. Borghi serves as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology .

#2615

Marting L. Albert

#126057

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#2616

Geralde E. Mcclearn

#126076

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#2617

Laurie A. Rudman

#115116

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Laurie A. Rudman is a social psychology feminist professor as well as the Director of the Rutgers University Social Cognition Laboratory who has contributed a great deal of research to studies on implicit and explicit attitudes and stereotypes, stereotype maintenance processes, and the media's effects on attitudes, stereotypes, and behavior on the Feminism movement. She was awarded the 1994 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for her research examining the effects of sexist advertising on men's behavior toward female job applicants.

#2618

O. Spurgeon English

#42745

Overall Influence

1901 - 1993 (92 years)

Oliver Spurgeon English was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who taught at Temple University. He was also a founding member of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society in 1937, in addition to working at both the Philadelphia General Hospital and Temple University Hospital. With Edward Weiss, he co-authored an influential textbook on psychosomatic medicine in 1943, among the first books on the topic. His work in this area led the Associated Press to describe him as "one of the first psychotherapists to write about the connections between mental and physical health". His numerous other...

#2619

Joshua Tybur

#40569

Overall Influence

Joshua M. Tybur is a Dutch psychologist who serves as Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at VU Amsterdam. Much of his research focuses on the evolutionary psychology of disgust.

#2620

Henrik Walter

#126225

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#2621

Lawrence A. Kurdek

#126228

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#2622

David P. Goldberg

#126230

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#2623

Gary Chapman

#48171

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Gary Demonte Chapman is an American author and radio talk show host. Chapman is most noted for his The Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships. Biography Chapman was born on January 10, 1938, in China Grove, North Carolina.

#2624

John Senders

#44173

Overall Influence

1920 - 2019 (99 years)

John W. Senders was an American professor of industrial engineering and psychology who did research on safety and human error. He founded Canada's Institute for Safe Medication Practices , introduced the visual occlusion paradigm, and organized the first conference on human error, which came to be known as Clambake I.

#2625

Jeannette Ickovics

#53382

Overall Influence

Jeannette R. Ickovics is an American health and social psychologist. She is the inaugural Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. She was the Founding Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and the Founding Director of Community Alliance for Research and Engagement . She served as the Dean of Faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore from 2018 to 2021.

#2626

Dan Tomasulo

#96877

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Daniel Joseph Tomasulo is an American counseling psychologist, writer, and professor and the Academic Director and core faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute , Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, MFA in writing, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and was formerly the Director of the New York City Certification in Positive Psychology for the New York Open Center. He is also a Review Editor for Frontiers in Psychology's special section on Positive Psychology and recipient of the Teachers College, Columbia...

#2627

Fritz Drasgow

#126372

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#2628

Frederick L. Coolidge

#101764

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Frederick L. Coolidge is an American psychologist known for his work in cognitive archaeology. He has been a Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs since 1979. With Karenleigh A. Overmann, he currently co-directs the Center for Cognitive Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He also teaches for the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.

#2629

Steven Heine

#114289

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Steven J. Heine is a Canadian professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology. He specialises in cultural psychology and has been described as "a leading figure" in that field.

#2630

Reinhold Kliegl

#126463

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

#2631

Joseph Anthony Sergeant

#126511

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#2632

Seana Coulson

#86262

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Seana Coulson is a cognitive scientist known for her research on the neurobiology of language and studies of how meaning is constructed in human language, including experimental pragmatics, concepts, semantics, and metaphors. She is a professor in the Cognitive Science department at University of California, San Diego, where her Brain and Cognition Laboratory focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of language and reasoning.

#2633

Conor Dolan

#97062

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Conor Vivian Dolan is a New Zealand psychologist and professor in the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. External links Faculty page

#2634

Byron A. Campbell

#126644

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#2635

David W. Gerbing

#126674

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#2636

Margaret Burchinal

#117180

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Margaret R. Burchinal is a quantitative psychologist and statistician known for her research on child care. She is senior research scientist and director of the Data Management and Analysis Center of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#2637

Grover C. Gilmore

#91982

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Grover Cleveland Gilmore is an American psychologist and was Dean of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University from 2002 to 2021. He is known for work funded by the National Institute of Health studying changes in visual perception that are associated with healthy aging and with Alzheimer's disease. His hypothesis is that a portion of the cognitive problems associated with aging and the memory problems in Alzheimer's disease may be attributed to sensory decline and not to higher order cognitive functions.

#2638

Thomas Newell Chase

#126757

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#2639

Marco Iacoboni

#126848

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#2640

Scott S. Hall

#108644

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Scott S. Hall a psychology and behavioral science professor and researcher at Stanford University's School of Medicine, specializing in Fragile X syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, and in research on the relationship of Fragile X syndrome to other conditions, including autism spectrum disorders. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997.

#2641

Craig C. Earle

#127010

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#2642

David Tzuriel

#118279

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

David Tzuriel is an Israeli clinical and educational psychologist. His expertise is dynamic assessment. Currently he works as a professor at Bar Ilan University. He was born on September 23, 1946. External links Homepage of David Tzuriel

#2643

Stephen G. Holtzman

#127044

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#2644

Lee C. Lee

#92489

Overall Influence

1935 - 2006 (71 years)

Lee Charlotte Lee was a Chinese American psychologist. She was a Professor Emerita of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. Lee was the first woman of Asian ancestry to become a tenured professor at Cornell.

#2645

Paul M. Grasby

#127173

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#2646

Alia Crum

#96304

Overall Influence

Alia Joy Crum is an American psychologist who is the principal investigator of the Stanford Mind and Body Lab. Crum researches how mindsets affect human behaviour as well as physical and mental health outcomes. She has received widespread media coverage for her work.

#2647

Marta Weinstock

#127299

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#2648

Ulrich Trautwein

#127302

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#2649

Joseph Bulbulia

#102807

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Victoria University of Wellington . He was the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at University of Auckland . He previously served as a Professor in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington . Bulbulia is regarded as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies . He is a past president of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior.

#2650

Walter C. Borman

#127363

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