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List of the most influential people in Psychology,

#451

Robert M. French

#4350

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Robert M. French is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is currently at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he worked with Douglas Hofstadter on the Tabletop computational cognitive model. He specializes in cognitive science and has made an extensive study of the process of analogy-making.

#452

Elliot Turiel

#7620

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Elliot Turiel is a psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on human development and its relation to education. He was born in Rhodes, Greece.

#453

David M. Clark

#10232

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

David Millar Clark, is a British psychologist. Career Clark was born in Darlington and studied experimental psychology at Oxford University. He trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry. He then returned to teach at Oxford University where he became a professor, then returned to the IOP where in 2000 he became head of psychology and founded the centre for anxiety disorders and trauma at the IOP and associated Maudsley Hospital along with fellow Oxford psychologists trauma-specialist Anke Ehlers and OCD-specialist Paul Salkovskis.

#454

Margaret Wetherell

#10598

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Margaret Wetherell is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis. Career Wetherell worked for 23 years at the Open University, UK from which she retired as Emeritus Professor in 2011. She then took up a part-time post of Professor in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

#455

David Myers

#22481

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

David Guy Myers is a professor of psychology at Hope College in Michigan, United States, and the author of 17 books, including popular textbooks entitled Psychology, Exploring Psychology, Social Psychology and general-audience books dealing with issues related to Christian faith as well as scientific psychology. In addition, he has published chapters in over 60 books and numerous scholarly research articles in professional journals. Myers is widely recognized for his research on happiness and is one of the supporters of the positive psychological movement.

#456

Esther Thelen

#14310

Overall Influence

1941 - 2004 (63 years)

Esther Thelen was an expert in the field of developmental psychology. Thelen's research was focused on human development, especially in the area of infant development. Thelen was also president of the Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for Infant Studies. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Psychological Society.

#457

Hazel Rose Markus

#15067

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Hazel June Linda Rose Markus is an American social psychologist and a pioneer in the field of cultural psychology. She is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in Stanford, California. She is also a founder and faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, a "do tank" that partners with industry leaders to tackle disparities and inspire culture change using insights from behavioral science. She is a founder and former director of the Research Institute of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity . Her research focuses on how culture shapes mind and behavior.

#458

James W. Pennebaker

James W. Pennebaker

#12432

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

James Whiting Pennebaker is an American social psychologist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His research focuses on the relationship between natural language use, health, and social behavior, most recently "how everyday language reflects basic social and personality processes".

#459

David C. Funder

#22336

Overall Influence

David C. Funder is a personality psychologist and a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written a number of important textbooks and research articles pertaining to the field of personality psychology. He used to be a past editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, as well as being a former secondary editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Funder has been praised for his studies on personality judgment. He had also published research over the attribution theory and the "delay of gratification".

#460

Margo Wilson

#19529

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Margo Wilson was a Canadian evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psychology and her contributions to the study of violence.

#461

Adam Phillips

#16278

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist. Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

#462

David Rosenhan

#7098

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

David L. Rosenhan was an American psychologist. He is best known for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses. Biography Rosenhan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1951 from Yeshiva College, his master's degree in economics in 1953 and his doctorate in psychology in 1958, both from Columbia University. As further described in his obituary published by the American Psychological Association , "Rosenhan was a pioneer in applying psychological methods to the practice of law, including the examination of expert witnesses, jury selectio...

#463

Richard Gregory

Richard Gregory

#8268

Overall Influence

1923 - 2010 (87 years)

Richard Langton Gregory, was a British psychologist and Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. Life and career Richard Gregory was born in London. He was the son of Christopher Clive Langton Gregory, the first director of the University of London Observatory, and his first wife, Helen Patricia .

#464

Deirdre Wilson

#5911

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson, FBA is a British linguist and cognitive scientist. She is emeritus professor of Linguistics at University College London and research professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. Her most influential work has been in linguistic pragmatics—specifically in the development of Relevance Theory with French anthropologist Dan Sperber. This work has been especially influential in the Philosophy of Language. Important influences on Wilson are Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, and Paul Grice. Linguists and philosophers of language who have been...

#465

Colin G. DeYoung

#14481

Overall Influence

Colin G. DeYoung is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota . His research is in the field of personality psychology and personality neuroscience. Background DeYoung earned his A.B. in the Mind, Brain, Behavior program of the History and Science concentration at Harvard University in 1998. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology in 2000 and 2005, respectively, at the University of Toronto where he studied under Jordan B. Peterson.

#466

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı

#13377

Overall Influence

1940 - 2017 (77 years)

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı was a Turkish scientist and professor. She was a university professor since 1969 and received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology in 1993.

#467

Robert Remez

#21935

Overall Influence

Robert Remez is an American experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist, and is Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition . His teaching focuses on the relationships between cognition, perception and language. He is best known for his theoretical and experimental work on perceptual organization and speech perception.

#468

Harry C. Triandis

#27522

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

Harry Charalambos Triandis was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was considered a pioneer of cross-cultural psychology and his research focused on the cognitive aspects of attitudes, norms, roles and values in different cultures.

#469

James McGaugh

#7864

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

James L. McGaugh is an American neurobiologist and author working in the field of learning and memory. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow and founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.

#470

Norman H. Anderson

#25887

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Norman Henry Anderson was an American social psychologist and the founder of Information integration theory. Anderson was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where he was one of three founders of the Department of Psychology. He received a BS in 1946 and an MS in 1949 from the University of Chicago, and an MS in 1955 and a PhD in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin, with a thesis on Effect of First-order Conditional Probability in a Two-choice Learning Situation. Anderson also taught at The University of California, Los Angeles during the 1960...

#471

Stefan Hofmann

#13455

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Stefan G. Hofmann is a German-born clinical psychologist. He is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor and recipient of the LOEWE Spitzenprofessur for Translational Clinical Psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany examining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, especially for anxiety disorders. Since 2012, he has been editor in chief of the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research

#472

Alphonse Chapanis

#9408

Overall Influence

1917 - 2002 (85 years)

Alphonse Chapanis was an American pioneer in the field of industrial design, and is widely considered one of the fathers of ergonomics or human factors – the science of ensuring that design takes account of human characteristics.

#473

David Elkind

#6308

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

David Elkind is an American child psychologist and author. Elkind and his family relocated to California when he was still a teenager. He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 and Doctorate in Philosophy in 1955. David also earned an honorary doctorate in Science at the Rhode Island College .

#474

Roos Vonk

#21260

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Roosje Vonk is a Dutch professor of social psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen author, and motivational speaker. Life and work Vonk studied psychology at Leiden University. She received her PhD in 1990 for her dissertation The cognitive representation of persons: A multidimensional study of Implicit Personality Theory, impression formation, and person judgments. In 1999 she became professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In addition to her work at the university, she popularized psychology by means of books, articles, and lectures for the general public.

#475

Carroll Izard

#25226

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

Carroll Ellis Izard was an American research psychologist known for his contributions to differential emotions theory , and the Maximally Discriminative Affect Coding System on which he worked with Paul Ekman. Izard also undertook empirical studies into the facial feedback hypothesis according to which emotions which have different functions also cause facial expressions which in turn provide us with cues about what emotion a person is feeling. In addition, Izard constructed a multidimensional self-report measure – the Differential Emotions Scale – currently in its 4th edition . His later re...

#476

Frank L. Schmidt

#16487

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

Frank L. Schmidt was an American psychology professor at the University of Iowa known for his work in personnel selection and employment testing. Schmidt was a researcher in the area of industrial and organizational psychology with the most number of publications in the two major journals in the 1980s. In the 1990s he was the 4th most published researcher in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology , the two principal publications in the field of industrial-organizational psychology. He was also winner of the first Dunnette Prize, the most prestigious lifetime achievement award...

#477

Eleanor Duckworth

#10987

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Eleanor Ruth Duckworth is a teacher, teacher educator, and psychologist. Duckworth earned her Ph.D. at the Université de Genève in 1977. She grounds her work in Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and intelligence and in their clinical interview method. Duckworth also has been an elementary school teacher. Her participation in the 1960s curriculum development projects Elementary Science Study and African Primary Science Program was germinal for her insights and practices in exploratory methods in teaching and learning. She has conducted...

#478

Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth

#10024

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Angela Lee Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist, and popular science author. She is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control. She is also the Founder and former CEO of Character Lab, a not-for-profit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development.

#479

Sian Beilock

#10022

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Sian Leah Beilock is a cognitive scientist who is the current president of Dartmouth College. Previous to serving at Dartmouth College, Beilock was the eighth president of Barnard College, the undergraduate women's college of Columbia University. As President of Barnard, she was also an academic dean within Columbia University. Beilock spent 12 years at the University of Chicago, departing Chicago as the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and Executive Vice Provost. She holds doctorates of philosophy in both kinesiology and psychology from Michigan State University.

#480

George Loewenstein

George Loewenstein

#4022

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

George Loewenstein is an American educator and economist. He is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Center for Behavioral Decision Research. He is a leader in the fields of behavioral economics , neuroeconomics, Judgment and Decision Making.

#481

Klaus Holzkamp

#24418

Overall Influence

1927 - 1995 (68 years)

Klaus Holzkamp was a German psychologist. Research Klaus Holzkamp worked as a professor at the Free University of Berlin. He took a central role in defining critical psychology based on the works of Karl Marx and Aleksei N. Leontiev. Holzkamp's main message is that mainstream psychology serves the interest of the power elite by disregarding the ability of humans to change their life circumstances. In a standard scientific study in the field of psychology the test setting is taken as a given, unchangeable fact, while in real life people may organize themselves and transform society.

#482

Mortimer Mishkin

#6170

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Mortimer Mishkin was an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 National Medal of Science awarded in Behavior and Social Science. Life and career Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in December 1926, Mishkin graduated from Dartmouth College in 1946, and took a 1949 M.A. and 1951 Ph.D. from McGill University under Donald O. Hebb. His Ph.D. thesis was partly directed by surgeon and theorist Karl H. Pribram.

#483

Eli Somer

#19086

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Eli Somer is an Israeli Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa, School of Social Work. He is the former President of both the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation , and serves as scientific advisor in Trauma and Dissociation Israel.

#484

Michael Scaife

#22893

Overall Influence

1948 - 2001 (53 years)

Michael Scaife was a British biologist, psychologist, and reader at the University of Sussex, known for his early work in developmental psychology and his later interdisciplinary study in cognitive and computing sciences.

#485

Sheldon Solomon

#13936

Overall Influence

Sheldon Solomon is an American social psychologist. He is a professor of psychology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Solomon is best known for developing terror management theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski. This theory is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality.

#486

Elliott Jaques

#3533

Overall Influence

1917 - 2003 (86 years)

Elliott Jaques was a Canadian psychoanalyst, social scientist and management consultant known as the originator of concepts such as corporate culture, midlife crisis, fair pay, maturation curves, time span of discretion and requisite organization, as a total system of managerial organization.

#487

Merlin Donald

#3607

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Merlin Wilfred Donald is a Canadian psychologist, neuroanthropologist, and cognitive neuroscientist, at Case Western Reserve University. He is noted for the position that evolutionary processes need to be considered in determining how the mind deals with symbolic information and language. In particular, he suggests that explicit, algorithmic processes may be inadequate to understanding how the mind works.

#488

Leona E. Tyler

#26902

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Leona Elizabeth Tyler was an American psychologist and president of the American Psychological Association in 1973. Early years Leona Tyler was born in Chetek, Wisconsin on May 10, 1906. Her father, Leon M. Tyler was an accountant and house restoration contractor and her mother, Bessie J. Carver Tyler managed the home. Both her parents graduated high school, but neither attended college.

#489

Heiner Rindermann

#16904

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Heiner Rindermann is a German psychologist and educational researcher. Academic career Rindermann received a Ph.D. in psychology in 1995 on the subject of teacher evaluations from Heidelberg University and completed a Habilitation in 2005 on the topic of teacher quality at University of Koblenz and Landau. In September 2007 he was appointed professor for evaluation and methodology of developmental psychology at the University of Graz. Since April 2010, Rindermann holds the Chair of Educational and Developmental Psychology at the Technical University of Chemnitz.

#490

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

#7964

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 1970 Beit-Hallahmi received a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. Bibliography

#491

James C. Coyne

#22573

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

James C. Coyne is an American psychologist. Education and career Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Coyne attended New London High School in New London, Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Indiana University Bloomington . After being a Clinical Psychology Intern at the University of Florida in 1972–3, he was an instructor at Miami University from 1973 to 1975, where he became an assistant professor in 1975. He became professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and became an emeritus prof...

#492

Mark D. Griffiths

#29206

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Mark D. Griffiths is an English chartered psychologist focusing in the field of behavioural addictions, namely gambling disorder, gaming addiction, Internet addiction, sex addiction, and work addiction. He is a Professor of Behavioural Addiction at Nottingham Trent University and director of the International Gaming Research Unit. He is the author of five books including Gambling Addiction and its Treatment Within the NHS, Gambling and Gaming Addictions in Adolescence, and Adolescent Gambling. He has also authored over 600 refereed papers, 140+ book chapters and more than 1,500 articles, and h...

#493

Etzel Cardeña

#18871

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Etzel Cardeña is the Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden where he is Director of the Centre for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology . He has served as President of the Society of Psychological Hypnosis, and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He is the current editor of the Journal of Parapsychology. He has expressed views in favour of what he terms "an open, informed study on all aspects of consciousness" and the validity of some paranormal phenomena. The Parapsychological Association honored Cardeña with the 2013 Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions Award.

#494

Zindel Segal

#16100

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Zindel V. Segal is a cognitive psychologist, a specialist on depression and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy . A professor of psychology at University of Toronto, Segal combines mindfulness with conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches patients to develop a different relationship to sadness or unhappiness by observing and without judgment. Presently he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is also the Director of Clinical Training in the Graduate Departme...

#495

James C. Kaufman

James C. Kaufman

#8897

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

#496

Richard J. Haier

#12611

Overall Influence

Richard J. Haier is an American psychologist who has researched a neural basis for human intelligence, psychometrics, general intelligence, and sex and intelligence. Haier is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Pediatric Neurology Division of the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine. He has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Intelligence since 2016.

#497

Ole Ivar Lovaas

#7750

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Ole Ivar Løvaas was a Norwegian-American clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is most well known for his research on what is now called applied behavior analysis to teach autistic children through prompts, modeling, and positive reinforcement. The therapy is also noted for its use of aversives to reduce undesired behavior, however these are now used less commonly than in the past.

#498

Eleanor Maccoby

#19187

Overall Influence

1917 - 2018 (101 years)

Eleanor Emmons Maccoby was an American psychologist who was most recognized for her research and scholarly contributions to the fields of gender studies and developmental psychology. Throughout her career she studied sex differences, gender development, gender differentiation, parent-child relations, child development, and social development from the child perspective.

#499

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel

#15472

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel was a leading French psychoanalyst, a training analyst, and past President of the Société psychanalytique de Paris in France. From 1983 to 1989, she was Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Chasseguet-Smirgel was Freud Professor at the University College, London, and Professor of Psychopathology at the Université Lille Nord de France. She is best known for her reworking of the Freudian theory of the ego ideal and its connection to primary narcissism, as well as for her extension of this theory to a critique of utopian ideology.

#500

Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Humphrey

#7900

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey is an English neuropsychologist based in Cambridge, known for his work on evolution of primate intelligence and consciousness. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda; he was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight" after brain damage in monkeys; he proposed the theory of the "social function of intellect". He is the only scientist to have edited the literary journal Granta.

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