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Marianne Simmel
1923 - 2010 (87 years)
Marianne Leonore Simmel was a German-American psychologist with a special interest in cognitive neuropsychology. The granddaughter of famed sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel, she was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Jena, Thuringia, Germany, to doctors Hans Eugen Simmel, a professor, and his wife, Else Rose, a pediatrician. She had younger siblings Eva Barbara, Arnold Georg and Gerhard Friedrich. She immigrated to the United States in March 1940 with her family as a stateless refugee and applied for citizenship later that year. The family was initially divided across New York City; the parents stayed at a lodging house while their children lived at various friends' homes.
Go to ProfileDiane M. Mackie is a social psychologist known for her research in the fields of intergroup relations and social influence. She is Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Michael Inzlicht
1972 - Present (52 years)
Michael Inzlicht is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto recognized in the areas of social psychology and neuroscience. Although he has published papers on the topics of prejudice, academic performance, and religion, his most recent interests have been in the topics of self-control, where he borrows methods from affective and cognitive neuroscience to understand the underlying nature of self-control, including how it is driven by motivation.
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Roger Brown
1925 - 1997 (72 years)
Roger William Brown was an American psychologist. He was known for his work in social psychology and in children's language development. Brown taught at Harvard University from 1952 until 1957 and from 1962 until 1994, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1957 until 1962. His scholarly books include Words and Things: An Introduction to Language , Social Psychology , Psycholinguistics , A First Language: The Early Stages , and Social Psychology: The Second Edition . He authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.
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Sander van der Linden
Sander L. van der Linden is a Dutch social psychologist and author who is a professor of social psychology at the University of Cambridge. He studies the psychology of social influence, risk, human judgment, and decision-making. He is particularly known for his research on the psychology of social issues, such as fake news, COVID-19, and climate change. He is recognized as an authority on understanding and dealing with misinformation.
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Galen Bodenhausen
1961 - Present (63 years)
Galen Von Bodenhausen is an American social psychologist. He is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University, where he is also a professor of marketing in the Kellogg School of Management. He is known for his research on gender stereotypes, gender roles, and implicit biases.
Go to ProfileDeborah H. Gruenfeld is an American social psychologist whose work examines the way people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. She is the author of numerous papers on the psychology of power and group behavior. She is the Joseph McDonald Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is also a co-director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at the same institution, and is a board member of Stanford’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She was the inaugural chairholder of the Moghadam Family Professorship in 2008.
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Donelson R. Forsyth
1953 - Present (71 years)
John Donelson Ross Forsyth is an American social psychologist. Forsyth studied sociology and psychology at Florida State University and pursued further study in psychology at the University of Florida where he earned a master of arts degree and doctorate. Forsyth began his teaching career as an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978. He was promoted to associate professor in 1983, and became a full professor in 1989.
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Gerald Zaltman
1938 - Present (86 years)
Gerald Zaltman is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author and editor of 20 books, most recently How Customers Think and Marketing Metaphoria . In 1997 he founded the market research consulting firm Olson Zaltman Associates in partnership with Jerry C. Olson, Professor of Marketing Emeritus, Smeal College of Business at Penn State. Zaltman patented, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, a method used to delve into the unconscious thinking that drives behavior.
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Fathali M. Moghaddam
1950 - Present (74 years)
Fathali M. Moghaddam is an Iranian-born psychologist, author, professor of psychology at Georgetown University and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science , Department of Government, Georgetown University.
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Elliott Mishler
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Elliot George Mishler was an American social psychologist who had significant influence on the development of narrative psychology. Life and work Mishler was born in Astoria, New York in 1924. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan in 1951. His dissertation was entitled: Personality Characteristics And The Resolution Of Role Conflicts.
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Gerd Bohner
1959 - Present (65 years)
Gerd W. Bohner is a professor of social psychology, experimental psychology and gender studies at Bielefeld University. Academia After graduating from the Goethe Gymnasium Karlsruhe in 1978 and doing his civilian service in a day-care centre for disabled children from 1978 to 1980, Bohner studied psychology at the University of Heidelberg from 1980 to 1986, when he obtained his diploma, and was awarded his PhD in 1990. In 1997 he habilitated at the University of Mannheim, holding a temporary professorship in group sociology and social psychology afterwards. The following year, Bohner held a temporary chair in general and social psychology at the University of Würzburg.
Go to ProfileEmily E. Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regards to visual perception.
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Andrzej Nowak
1953 - Present (71 years)
Andrzej Nowak is a Polish psychologist, one of the founders of dynamical social psychology. He is a pioneer in applying computer simulations in social sciences. Nowak received his M.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. His scientific interests include complex systems in psychology and social sciences.
Go to ProfileGregory Francis Ball is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is best known for his research into how seasonal hormonal shifts change the brain and reproductive behavior of different bird species.
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Michael D. Newcomb
1952 - 2010 (58 years)
Michael Donald Newcomb was an American psychologist. His research focused on drug etiology, as well as nuclear anxiety and other topics. Early life and education Michael D. Newcomb was born on December 20, 1952, in Laguna Beach, California. In 1974, he earned a bachelor's degree in social ecology from University of California, Irvine. He completed joint studies in developmental psychology and mathematics. In 1976, he earned a master's degree in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles where he later completed a doctorate in clinical psychology in 1979. His doctoral advisor was Peter M.
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Michael Hengartner
1966 - Present (58 years)
Michael Otmar Hengartner is a Swiss-Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist. From February 2020 he has been president of the ETH Board. Before that he was the president of the University of Zurich and president of the Swiss Rectors' Conference, swissuniversities.
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Hart Blanton
1967 - Present (57 years)
Hart Blanton is an American social psychologist. He is a professor in the department of communication and journalism at Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 1994.
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Jennifer Richeson
1972 - Present (52 years)
Jennifer A. Richeson is an American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She is currently the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University where she heads the Social Perception and Communication Lab. Prior to her appointment to the Yale faculty, Richeson was Professor of Psychology and African-American studies at Northwestern University. In 2015, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. Richeson was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Since 2021, she has been a member of the President’s Counc...
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Richard William Byrne
Richard William Byrne is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience of the University of St Andrews. With an h-index of 77, he is renowned in the area of the evolution of cognitive and social behavior such as machiavellian intelligence.
Go to ProfileSteve C. Currall is an American psychological scientist and academic administrator, and served as the seventh president of the University of South Florida. He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southern Methodist University from January 1, 2016. From 2009 to 2014, Currall served as Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has also held leadership roles at University College London and Rice University. On March 22, 2019, Currall was named to succeed Judy Genshaft as president of the University of South Florida, and took office July 1, 2019. He ...
Go to ProfileSteven Fein is a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fein has two daughters named Alina and Hannah. He attended Princeton and the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in social psychology. His primary research interests are stereotypes and prejudice, suspicion and attribution theory, and how the media affects both men and women’s views of women.
Go to ProfileBecca R. Levy is a professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of social gerontology and psychology of aging. She is credited with creating the field of how age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, impact the health of older individuals. The Dean of Columbia School of Public Health describes Levy as "a pioneer" in the "growing body of impressive research showing that our attitudes toward aging affect our health, our resilience in the face of adversity, and our very survival....
Go to ProfileWilliam Keith Campbell is an American social psychologist known for his research on narcissism. He is a professor in the Department of Psychology in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He completed his BA at University of California, Berkeley, MA from University of California, San Diego, PhD at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and a number of books, including The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments and The Narcissism Epi...
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Toni Antonucci
1948 - Present (76 years)
Toni Claudette Antonucci is an American psychologist, currently the Elizabeth R. Douvan Collegiate Professor at University of Michigan and formerly President of Gerontological Society of America Her husband was James S. Jackson.
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Elizabeth Stokoe
2000 - Present (24 years)
Elizabeth Stokoe is a British social scientist and conversation analyst. Since January 2023, she has been Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University in the Discourse and Rhetoric Group, where she remains an Honorary Professor. She has been Professor II at University of South-Eastern Norway since 2016.
Go to ProfileLaura Kubzansky is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. One of her research topics is the potential link between happiness and physical health.
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Bertram Gawronski
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.
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Elizabeth Dunn
1977 - Present (47 years)
Elizabeth Warren Dunn is a Canadian social psychologist and a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia . In 2015, Dunn was elected a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists within the Royal Society of Canada.
Go to ProfileRowell Huesmann is the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology and research professor in the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan. He is currently Director of the Aggression Research Program in the Research Center for Group Dynamics of the Institute for Social Research. He is best known for his emphasis on imitation and observational learning as primary psychological mechanisms promoting the development of aggressive and violent behavior and promoting the contagion of violence. His several longitudinal studies conducted with Leonard E...
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Adam Galinsky
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.
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Orla Muldoon
2000 - Present (24 years)
Orla Therese Muldoon is an Irish social and political psychologist and founding professor of psychology at the University of Limerick. Her research concerns how groups memberships and social identities affect health and well-being.
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Suzanne Kessler
1946 - Present (78 years)
Suzanne Kessler is an American social psychologist known for the application of ethnomethodology to gender. She and Wendy McKenna pioneered this application of ethnomethodology to the study of gender and sex with their groundbreaking work, Gender an Ethnomethodological Approach. Twenty years later, Kessler extended this work in a second book, Lessons from the Intersexed.
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Michael Norton
1975 - Present (49 years)
Michael Irwin Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also known for identifying and naming the IKEA effect. Education Norton received his B.A. from Williams College in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2002.
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