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List of the most influential people in Social Psychology,

#351

Kerry Kawakami

#129949

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Kerry Kawakami is a Canadian social psychologist. She is a professor of social psychology at York University in Toronto. She is the current editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. Kawakami's research focuses on developing strategies to reduce intergroup bias.

#352

P. Wesley Schultz

#161548

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#353

Deborah A. Kashy

#162093

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#354

Nerilee Hing

#162415

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#355

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.

#356

David Crookall

#163035

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#357

Jerry M. Burger

#163065

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#358

Niels Christian Danbolt

#164036

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1960 - Present (64 years)

#359

Luigi De Gennaro

#164240

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1959 - Present (65 years)

#360

Irwin P. Levin

#164346

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

#361

Markus Heinrichs

#164659

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#362

Susan Pick

#86148

Overall Influence

Susan Pick is a Mexican social psychologist and the founder and board president of the Mexican Institute for Family and Population Research , a Mexican organization that has promoted and facilitated wellbeing for over 21 million people in Mexico and 17 other countries through over 60 education, health and poverty reduction programs. She has her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of London.

#363

Catrin Finkenauer

#164902

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1965 - Present (59 years)

#364

Guy Bodenmann

#165265

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#365

Gail S. Hackett

#165405

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#366

Alexandra M. Freund

#165670

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1964 - Present (60 years)

#367

Chester A. Insko

#165795

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#368

Yuichi Shoda

#166072

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#369

Susan R. Fussell

#103240

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Susan Runyon Fussell is an American psychologist, communications researcher, and information scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction. She is Liberty Hyde Baily Professor of Communication and Information Science at Cornell University, and a member of the CHI Academy.

#370

Daniel Bar-Tal

#88128

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Daniel Bar-Tal is an Israeli academic, author and Branco Weiss Professor of Research in Child Development and Education at School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Biography Bar-Tal was born in Stalinabad, Tajikistan, USSR in 1946, but lived his childhood in Szczecin, Poland until his immigration to Israel in 1957. In Israel he completed his undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University.

#371

Daphna Oyserman

#86528

Overall Influence

Daphna Oyserman is a Dean's Professor in the Department of Psychology and of Education and Communication at the University of Southern California. She is also a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center. Oyserman received a PhD in psychology and social work from the University of Michigan . She was on the faculty of The Hebrew University, Jerusalem before joining the University of Michigan, where she last held appointments as the Edwin J. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Social Work, Professor of Psychology, and research professor in the Institute for Social Research. She has been ...

#372

Craig Haney

#47179

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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.

#373

Susan Kippax

#119252

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Susan Caroline Kippax is an Australian social psychologist and is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. Academic career Born in 1941, Kippax graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA . In 1970 she won a Rhodes Travelling Fellowship to study at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney. Her thesis was titled Attitudes: A theory and experimental investigation of their complex nature.

#374

György Csepeli

#126293

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

György Csepeli is a Hungarian social psychologist, sociologist, politician, professor emeritus at the Eötvös Loránd University , former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Information of Hungary. His research, books, papers and talks focus on antiziganism, antisemitism and foundational problems of information society and social psychology.

#375

Perry London

#107368

Overall Influence

1931 - 1992 (61 years)

Perry London was an American–Israeli psychologist, theorist, and academic administrator best known for his writings on clinical psychology and his studies about altruism and hypnosis. In his last position, he was a professor of psychology and dean of the graduate school of applied and professional psychology at Rutgers University.

#376

David A. Pizarro

#68205

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David A. Pizarro is an American psychologist and podcaster. He is a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He is also the Chief Science Officer of BEworks, a behavioral economics consulting firm, and is the co-host of the Very Bad Wizards Podcast. His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of human morality, as well as on the influence of emotions on decision-making, particularly on the emotion of disgust. Pizarro has made appearances on several radio and television documentaries to discuss his work.

#377

Amanda Sheffield Morris

#158641

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Amanda Sheffield Morris is an American developmental scientist, known primarily for her work on parenting, emotion regulation, and the neuroscience of adversity and resilience in terms of optimal child and adolescent development. She is currently the Regents Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University.

#378

Leslie Zebrowitz

#103214

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Dr. Leslie A. Zebrowitz is a social psychologist who studies the effects of the way people look on others' attitudes towards them. Her research has shown conclusively that babyfaced and angularly faced individuals are viewed differently. Among the effects, babyfaced individuals are seen as physically weaker, more submissive and less competent and, as Zebrowitz argued in a 2005 paper in Science, this may explain why politicians with more mature faces are more likely to win elections. She is the author of Reading Faces as well as many scholarly articles.

#379

Nilanjana Dasgupta

#93509

Overall Influence

Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes - particularly on factors that insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes which suggest that females perform poorly in such areas. Dasgupta is a professor of Psychology and is the Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

#380

Lotte Bailyn

#44127

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Lotte Franziska Bailyn is an American social psychologist. She is the T Wilson Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was the first woman faculty member at MIT Sloan.

#381

Teresa M. Amabile

#171326

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#382

Katherine Isbister

#73266

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Katherine Isbister is a game and human computer interaction researcher and designer, currently a professor in computational media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Until June 2015, she was an associate professor at New York University, with a joint appointment in computer science and in the Game Center at the Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, she was founding research director of the Game Innovation Lab. Isbister's research and design contributions center on how to create more compelling emotional and social qualities in games and other digital experiences. She has innovated in the areas of character/avatar/agent design and in researching and evaluating the user experience.

#383

Michelle Fine

#71917

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Michelle Melody Fine is a distinguished professor at the City University of New York and has her training in Social and Personality Psychology, Environmental Psychology, American Studies, and Urban Education. Her research includes the topics of social injustice and resistance and urban education. Fine is also an author and has written several works, one of her most known being Muslim American Youth .

#384

Boaz Keysar

#65631

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Boaz Keysar is the Chair of the Cognition Program at the University of Chicago, and broadly researches communication, negotiation, and decision making. Biography Keysar was born in Israel, and received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in 1984. Keysar later earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1989 after moving to the United States, working under Sam Glucksberg. In 1991, after working as a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford University, Keysar joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Psychology, and was later granted tenure in 1995 and promoted to full professor in 2002.

#385

Gordon Hodson

#166417

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Gordon Hodson is a psychology professor at Brock University, where he directs the Brock Lab of Intergroup Processes. He is known for his research on political ideology and its relationship to prejudice, intelligence, and climate change denial.

#386

Anat Rafaeli

#14527

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Anat Rafaeli is an Israeli researcher, scholar of Organisational Behavior, a Professor Emerita at the Technion and the Yigal Alon Chair of Industrial Engineering and Mmanagement. She served as the Deputy Senior Vice President of International Academic Relations of the Technion and was the Executive Director of Technion International . Rafaeli is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a member of the Academy of Management, with extensive experience as an author and a former member of the editorial boards of The Academy of Management Journal and The Academy of Management Review

#387

Ram Frost

#96428

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Ram Frost is a professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with affiliations to Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, US, and The Basque Center for Cognition Brain and Language in San Sebastian, Spain. He is a world leading expert on cross-linguistic differences in reading. His research on reading in Hebrew has changed the prevalent anglocentric theoretical perspectives of reading research, and has changed the educational system of Israel and its methods of teaching reading.

#388

Geraldine Downey

#126612

Overall Influence

Geraldine A. Downey is an Irish-American social psychologist. She is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University. Downey is head of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and is a member of the University of the People's arts and sciences advisory board.

#389

Michael A. McDaniel

#75343

Overall Influence

Michael A. McDaniel is an American industrial and organizational psychologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was concurrently a research professor in the Department of Psychology. He is known for his research on personnel selection and publication bias, as well as on the relationship between brain size and intelligence. His current research interests include personnel selection, publication bias, and research integrity. He is employed at Work Skills First, Inc., a human resource consulting firm specializing in personnel selection and expert witness services related to personnel selection.

#390

Anthony Pratkanis

Anthony Pratkanis

#138456

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Anthony R. Pratkanis is a researcher, author, consultant, media commentator and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books, and has published research papers in scientific journals on the topics of social influence, fraud, terrorist and dictator propaganda, marketing and consumer behavior, and subliminal persuasion.

#391

Hiroshi Shimizu

#174024

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

#392

Ilina Singh

#119019

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Ilina Singh is a Professor of Neuroscience & Society at the University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom. She is also a co-director at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Ethics and the Humanities, and a research fellow at the National Institute for Health Research Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.

#393

Phil A. Silva

#174279

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#394

Leickness Simbayi

#159444

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Leickness Chisamu Simbayi is a South African research psychologist and professor. He is the current Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Research of the Human Sciences Research Council where he studies the social aspects of STIs and HIV/AIDS. In 2002, Simbayi was a part of the research team that conducted the first South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey and has been involved in the implementation of all subsequent surveys.

#395

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...

#396

Lara Aknin

#19877

Overall Influence

Lara Beth Aknin is a Canadian social psychologist. She is an assistant professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University and a distinguished university professor. Career After earning her PhD from the University of British Columbia, Aknin joined the faculty of psychology at Simon Fraser University in 2012. That year, she published "Giving Leads to Happiness in Young Children" with J. Kiley Hamlin and Elizabeth Dunn, which supported the idea that humans may have evolved to find giving rewarding.

#397

Omri Gillath

#165554

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Omri Gillath is an Israeli-American social psychologist. As a professor of social psychology at the University of Kansas, Gillath has spent over 20 years doing research, teaching psychology, and mentoring students. He is a leading figure in the field of close relationships and has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed psychology journals. His research interests include: close relationships, attachment theory, brain mechanisms and genetic polymorphisms underlying attachment style, social networks, and recently, humans connections with AI.

#398

Shlomo Hareli

#136718

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Shlomo Hareli is an Israeli psychologist, Full Professor of Social Psychology at the School of Business Administration at the University of Haifa. At present, he is serving as the head of the school.

#399

Deborah Britzman

#16314

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Deborah P. Britzman is a professor and a practicing psychoanalyst at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy, teacher education, social inequality, problems of intolerance and historical crisis.

#400

Markus Kemmelmeier

#88600

Overall Influence

Markus Kemmelmeier is a German social psychologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a foundation professor and director of the Ph.D. program in interdisciplinary social psychology. Career He is known for his research on the psychological effects of exposure to flags, such as the American flag. He has also researched the relationship between political ideology and intelligence.

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