- Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6 1856 - September 23 1939), was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic techniques, …
- William James
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City, son of Henry James, Sr., …
- Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psychology. Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, …
- 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", …
- Abraham Maslow
Abraham (Harold) Maslow was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs, considered the father of Humanism in psychology.
- 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.
- Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing"
- Carl Rogers
Carl Ransom Rogers was an influential American psychologist, who was among the founders of the humanist approach to psychology. Rogers is considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and would be honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956. The Person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, …
- 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.
- John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
- Tanya Byron
Tanya Byron MSc PsychD is a British psychologist who became a celebrity in 2004/5 as the resident expert on parenting shows "Little Angels" and "the House of Tiny Tearaways" (these programmes are amongst several that have kickstarted the currently popular genre of parenting programmes in the UK). She has also co-authored a book on parenting based on the "Little Angels" show.
- 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.
- Martin Seligman
Martin E.P. Seligman (Albany, New York, 12 August 1942) is an American psychologist and writer. He is well known for his work on the idea of "learned helplessness", and more recently, for his contributions to leadership in the field of Positive Psychology. According to Haggbloom et al's study of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, Seligman was the 13th most frequently cited psychologist in introductory psychology textbooks throughout the century.
- Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis (born September 27 1913) is an American cognitive-behavioral therapist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He is considered by many to be the grandfather of cognitive-behavioral therapies and, based on a 1982 professional survey of US and Canadian psychologists, …
- 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."
- Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson was a German developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase "identity crisis".
- 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, …
- Erich Fromm
Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher.
- Philip Zimbardo
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- Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (February 7 1870 - May 28 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology
- Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory. Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Israel in 1946. He received his B.Sc.
- Kurt Lewin
Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9,1890 - February 12,1947), a German-born psychologist, is one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the "founder of social psychology" and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development. In 1890, he was born into a Jewish family in Mogilno, Poland (then in County of Mogilno, province of Posen, Prussia).
- Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925 in Mundare, Canada) is a psychologist famous for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, social cognitive theory and self efficacy. Bandura graduated from the University of British Columbia with the Bolocan Award in psychology, and then obtained his M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Iowa. He is generally acknowledged as America's greatest living psychologist.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University and Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is also Emeritus Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago, where he chaired the department of psychology. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of creativity.
- 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.
- Oliver James
Oliver James is a clinical psychologist, writer and television documentary producer. He also frequently broadcasts on radio and acts as a pundit on television. He followed a degree in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University (1973-6) with a qualifying psychology degree and Child Clinical Psychology training at Nottingham University (1977-9).
- Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger was a social psychologist from New York City who became famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger, 1957). Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended the University of Iowa where he received his Ph.D. in 1942. Festinger studied under Kurt Lewin, who is often considered the father of social psychology.
- Anna Freud
Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. Compared to her father, Anna Freud's work emphasized the importance of the ego, and its ability to be trained socially.
- Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. Professor Wiseman is known for his critical examination and frequent debunking of unusual phenomena, including reports of paranormal phenomena.
- Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. One biographer, Myron Sharaf, writes that Reich's work left a deep impression on influential thinkers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, …
- Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus (born in Los Angeles, CA) is a psychologist who works on human memory and how it can be changed by facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information. Her work is controversial, and has much direct application in law and other fields.
- John Gottman
World renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, involving the study of emotions, physiology and communication, John Gottman was recently voted as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Therapists of the Past Quarter-Century by the Psychotherapy Networker magazine. 30 years of breakthrough research on marriage and relationships have earned him numerous major awards.
- Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.
- Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand, often very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century.
- John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878-September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He is known for having claimed that he could take any 12 healthy infants and, by applying behavioral techniques, create whatever kind of person he desired. He also conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment.
- James Hillman
James Hillman (1926-) is a psychologist, considered to be one of the most original of the 20th century. Trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, he developed archetypal psychology (polytheistic myth as psychology). Hillman is a prolific writer and international lecturer as well as a private practitioner. James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944-1946, …
- 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.
- Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 Old Style), 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and the founder of the Cultural-historical psychology.
- Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 - October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test. Born in Nice, Binet was a French psychologist who published the first modern intelligence test, the Binet-Simon intelligence scale, in 1905. His principal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum.
- Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist and psychologist. Generally acknowledged as a founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology, he is less commonly recognized as a founding figure of social psychology; the later years of Wundt's life were spent working on "Völkerpsychologie", which he understood as a study into the social basis of higher mental functioning.