- Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner, born on July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a psychologist who is based at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. - B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic "Fred" Skinner (March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990), Ph.D. was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called "Radical Behaviorism", … - Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. - Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs. - Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." - Stanley Milgram
Dr. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers. Although considered one of the most important psychologists of the 20th century, … - Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan (1936-) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. - Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He rose to popular prominence with the book Stumbling on Happiness , which uses social psychology to explore the ways in which humans endeavor to envision the future, and how well we can predict if we will enjoy it. His work with Tim Wilson on affective forecasting looks at the ways in which people make predictions about the emotional impact of future events. - Carol Dweck
Carol S. Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is a professor at Stanford University and a social psychologist. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972. She taught at Columbia, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004. Her key contribution to social psychology relates to implicit theories of intelligence. - Lawrence Kohlberg
Summary Of Lawrence Kohlberg 's STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT Lawrence Kohlberg was, for many years, a professor at Harvard University. He be... Save Paper Moral Development - Lawrence Kohlberg Kohlberg's Moral Development Lawrence Kohlberg grew up in Bronxville, New York and attended handover Academy in Massachusetts. This is an academically demanding private... Save Paper - Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan (born 1929) was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology. Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University, he has shown that an infant's "temperament" is quite stable over time, in that certain behaviors in infancy are predictive of certain other behavior patterns in adolescence. In an empirical study by Haggbloom et al using six criteria such as citations and recognition, … - Ram Dass
Dr. Richard Alpert, also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller "Be Here Now". He is well-known for his association with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, both having been dismissed from their professorships for experiments on the effects of psychedelic drugs on human subjects. He is also known for his travels to India and his association with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. - G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a psychologist and educator who pioneered American psychology. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College in 1867, then studied at the Union Theological Seminary. - Robert Coles
Robert Coles (b. October 12, 1929) is an American author, developmental psychologist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard, where he originally pursued literary interests until persuaded to go into medicine. He became a medical doctor in 1954 and moved to the South with plans to start a quiet practice as a child psychiatrist. - Drew Westen
Drew Westen is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex (England), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he taught introductory psychology for several years. - David Buss
David Buss (born April 14, 1953) is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection. Born to Arnold Buss, a recently retired professor of psychology at The University of Texas, and Edith Buss, he earned his Ph.D. in psychology at University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. Before becoming a professor at The University of Texas, … - David McClelland
David Clarence McClelland was an American behavioral psychologist, social psychologist, and an advocate of quantitative history. McClelland earned his BA in 1938 at Wesleyan University, his MA in 1939 at the University of Missouri, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Yale University in 1941. McClelland taught at the Connecticut College and Wesleyan University before accepting, in 1956, a position at Harvard University. After his 30-year tenure at Harvard he moved, … - George A. Miller
George A(rmitage) Miller (February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology at Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University and served as the President of the American Psychological Association. - Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (February 27 1920 - November 21 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious as we consider the term today, and that the change of human thinking occurred over a period of centuries about three thousand years ago. Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University. - Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology. Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. - Ellen Langer
Ellen Jane Langer (born March 25, 1947) is professor of psychology at Harvard University who has studied the illusion of control, decision making, aging and mindfulness theory. She received her PhD in Social and Clinical Psychology from Yale University in 1974. In 1980 she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Other honors include the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association, … - Elizabeth Spelke
Elizabeth Spelke (born May 28 1949) is a cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies. Starting in the 1980s, she carried out experiments on infants and young children to test their cognitive faculties. She discovered that human beings have a large array of innate mental abilities. In recent years, she had an important role in the debate on cognitive differences between men and women. - Gary Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology teaching courses in psychology in the departments of Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of The VERITAS Research Program of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Schwartz is the co-author of "The Living Energy Universe", … - Pierre Janet
Pierre Marie Félix Janet was a pioneering French psychologist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He was one of the first persons to draw a connection between events in the subject's past life and their present day trauma, and coined the words ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’. He studied under Jean-Martin Charcot at the Psychological Laboratory in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in Paris. In several ways, he preceded Sigmund Freud. - Richard Herrnstein
Richard J. Herrnstein was a prominent researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. His major research finding as an experimental psychologist is called "matching"--the tendency of animals to allocate their choices in direct proportion to the rewards they provide. To illustrate the phenomenon, imagine that there are two sources of reward, one of which is twice as rich as the other. - William Damon
William Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. Damon's current research explores how people develop character and a sense of purpose in their work, family, and community relationships. He examines how young people can approach their careers with a focus on purpose, imagination, and high standards of excellence. - Solomon Asch
Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He was born in Warsaw, then in Russian Empire, and emigrated to the United States in 1920. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of the City of New York in 1928. At Columbia University, he received his master's degree in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1932. He was a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College for 19 years, … - William McDougall
William McDougall (June 22, 1871 in Chadderton, Oldham, England - November 28, 1938 Durham, U.S.A.) was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the UK and the latter part in the U.S.. He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, and was particularly important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world. - Ulric Neisser
Ulrich Neisser is an American psychologist. Born in Kiel, Germany, he moved with his family to the United States in 1931. Neisser earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1950, a Master’s at Swarthmore, and a doctorate from Harvard in 1956. He then taught at Brandeis, Cornell, and Emory universities. The modern growth of cognitive psychology received a major boost from the publication in 1967 of the first, and most influential, … - Daniel Schacter
Daniel Schacter is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter investigates issues related to human memory. Schacter's books include: "Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past" (1996); "Forgotten ideas, neglected pioners: Richard Semon and the story of memory." (2001); "The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers" (2001). In "The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers", … - Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin is a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His work primarily focusses on the psychological, cultural, and biological determinants of human food choice. Rozin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1956 and a doctoral degree in biology and psychology from Harvard University in 1961. - Stephen Kosslyn
Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born in 1948) is an American psychologist. He is currently a professor of psychology and Chair of the department of psychology at Harvard University and a researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. He received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D.from Stanford University in 1974, both in psychology. His former teaching career includes Johns Hopkins and Brandeis Universities. - Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20 1916 - May 5, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. He made contributions in a wide range of disciplines like psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and philosophy. He taught at Lehigh University, which established the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes. - Susan Fiske
Susan Fiske is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She is an eminent social psychologist known for her work on social cognition and stereotypes and prejudice. She has authored over 175 publications and has written 7 books, including her most recent work "Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology". "Social Cognition," a graduate level text she wrote with her dissertation advisor, Shelley Taylor, … - Susan Clancy
Susan A. Clancy is a psychology researcher at Harvard University in the field of memory, and in October 2005 published "Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens". Clancy came to the subject of alien abductions while studying recovered memories, a phenomenon her research had drawn into question. Because her original research subjects, people who had recovered memories (generally via hypnosis) of sexual abuse, … - John Darley
John Darley is a distinguished U.S. social psychologist, who has made contributions to the study of helping behaviour. He studied at Swarthmore College from 1956-1960, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree (1960), and later attended Harvard University, from which he obtained his Master's degree in 1962 and his Ph.D.in 1965. - Karl Lashley
Karl S. Lashley, born in Davis, West Virginia, was an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. His failure to find a single biological locus of memory (or "engram", as he called it) suggested to him that memories were not localized to one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex. While working toward his Ph.D. in genetics at Johns Hopkins University, … - Edward C. Tolman
Edward Chace Tolman (1886 - 1959) was an American psychologist. He was most famous for his studies on behavioral psychology. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, brother of CalTech physicist Richard Chace Tolman, Edward C. Tolman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1915. Most of his career was spent at the University of California, Berkeley (from 1918 to 1954), where he taught psychology. - Herbert Kelman
Herbert Kelman is professor emeritus at Harvard University. On August 1, 2003, the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, under leadership of Kelman was closed. - Sandra Scarr
Sandra Wood Scarr (born August 1936) is an American psychology professor. Born in Maryland, her family followed her father, who was stationed at the United States Army's largest chemical weapon facility through much of her childhood. Scarr earned her Ph.D. in psychology in 1965 from Harvard University, where she majored in behavior genetics. Though she initially had a difficult time finding a job because she had a child, she eventually taught at the University of Maryland, …
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