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This list includes notable
psychologists and contributors to
psychology , some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline.
Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on
comparative psychology ,
list of clinical psychologists ,
list of developmental psychologists ,
list of educational psychologists ,
list of evolutionary psychologists ,
list of social psychologists , and
list of cognitive scientists . Many psychologists included in those lists are also listed below:
A
Alfred Adler (Founder of the school of
individual psychology )
Mary Ainsworth
Estefania Aldaba-Lim
George Albee
Joseph P. Allen
Jüri Allik
Lauren Alloy
Gordon Allport ,
personality psychology
Adelbert Ames, Jr.
Marie Anaut
Harlene Anderson
John R. Anderson
Ernst Angel
Heinz Ansbacher
Edgar Anstey
Michael Apter ,
reversal theory
Michael Argyle , social psychology,
discourse analysis
Robert Arkin , social psychology
Magda B. Arnold
Solomon Asch (
Asch conformity experiments ,
Social influence ,
Peer pressure )
Roberto Assagioli
John William Atkinson , human motivation, achievement and behavior
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
Virginia Axline ,
play therapy
B
Arthur J. Bachrach , underwater and extreme environments
Alan Baddeley , three-component model of
working memory
Renee Baillargeon
Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
Albert Bandura ,
social learning theory
Aron K. Barbey
Russell Barkley
Jerome Barkow
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Simon Baron-Cohen
Deirdre Barrett , dreams and hypnosis
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Frederic Bartlett ,
memory
schema
Daniel Batson
Diana Baumrind
Nancy Bayley
Geoffrey Beattie ,
body language , psychology in sustainable consumption
Sandra Bem
Erich Benjamin
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Hubert Benoit
Richard Bentall
Larry E. Beutler , systematic treatment selection
Alfred Binet (Intelligence testing, first practical
IQ test , the Binet–Simon test)
Robert A. Bjork
Randolph Blake , binocular rivalry
Ray Blanchard , sexology
Theodore H. Blau , first practising
clinician elected President of the
APA
Stephen F. Blinkhorn
Pavel Blonsky
Paul Bloom
Barbara Bonner
Edmund Bourne
Gordon H. Bower
John Bowlby ,
attachment theory
Nathaniel Branden , self-esteem, objectivism
Franz Brentano
Shlomo Breznitz
Carl Brigham
Donald Broadbent ,
cognitive psychology
Urie Bronfenbrenner ,
ecological systems theory
Kelly Brownell
Jerome Bruner , child development
Emily Bushnell
David Buss
Brian Butterworth
Ruth M. J. Byrne
C
Mary Whiton Calkins
Donald T. Campbell
Susan Carey
James Cattell , helped establish psychology as a legitimate science
Raymond Cattell ,
factor analysis ,
16PF Questionnaire and the
Big Five ,
fluid versus crystallized intelligence
Stephen J. Ceci , intelligence and memory
Jean-Martin Charcot
Nancy Chodorow
Noam Chomsky ,
Linguistics ,
Cognitive Science
Robert Cialdini
Kenneth B. Clark
Mamie Phipps Clark
Lee Anna Clark
Asher Cohen
Clyde Coombs
Cary Cooper
Suzanne Corkin
Leda Cosmides
Lee Chambers (psychologist)
Martin A. Conway
Catharine Cox , intelligence, genius
Lee Cronbach , testing and measurement
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ,
Positive psychology ,
Happiness &
Creativity
D
E
Hermann Ebbinghaus , experimental study of
memory
Jennifer Eberhardt , racial bias in criminal justice
Paul Ekman , (
emotions and
facial expressions )
Albert Ellis , (Founder of
rational emotive behavior therapy , Founder of
cognitive-behavioral therapies )
Hadyn Ellis
Virgilio Enriquez , founder of
Filipino psychology
Erik H. Erikson , (
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development )
Milton H. Erickson
John E. Exner , developed the comprehensive system for administering, coding, and interpreting the
Rorschach test
Hans Eysenck
F
G
John Gabrieli
Gordon G. Gallup , Jr.,
mirror self-recognition (MSR) test
Francis Galton , (His book
Hereditary Genius was the first social scientific attempt to study
genius and
greatness )
Laszlo Garai
Riley Gardner
Elmer R. Gates
Susan Gathercole
Isabel Gauthier , perceptual expertise, object and face recognition
Bertram Gawronski
Kenneth Gergen ,
social constructionism
Hans-Werner Gessmann , humanistic psychodrama
Eleanor J. Gibson
J. J. Gibson
Gerd Gigerenzer ,
bounded rationality
Daniel Gilbert , (Social psychology,
Affective forecasting )
Gustave Gilbert
Carol Gilligan
Fernand Gobet , cognitive psychology
Stan Gooch
Christian Gostečnik , clinical psychology and marriage-and-family therapist
Irving I. Gottesman , behavioral genetics
Clare W. Graves , (
emergent cyclical levels of existence theory )
Richard Green , sexology
Florence Goodenough
John Gottman , marital stability and relationships
Elizabeth Gould
James Greeno , experimental psychology and learning science
James Gross
Robert Grosseteste
Félix Guattari , founder of
schizoanalysis
Germaine Guex
J. P. Guilford
Edwin Ray Guthrie
H
I
J
William James , (
James–Lange theory of emotion,
psychology of religion )
Marie Jahoda
Kay Redfield Jamison , clinical psychology,
bipolar disorder
Joseph Jastrow
Julian Jaynes
Arthur Jensen , (
Heritability of IQ ,
Race and intelligence ,
g factor )
Jaqueline Jesus
Marcia K. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson
Philip Johnson-Laird ,
cognition ,
psychology of reasoning
Ernest Jones
Mary Cover Jones
Carl Jung , (
Analytical psychology )
J. P. Das , (
PASS Theory )
K
Jerome Kagan
Daniel Kahneman , (
Nobel Prize in Economics , behavioral finance and hedonic psychology)
Mieko Kamiya
Jacob Robert Kantor , organized scientific values into a coherent system of psychology
Nancy Kanwisher
Rachel and Stephen Kaplan , (
Environmental psychology )
Leonard Katz
Alan S. Kaufman
Nadeen L. Kaufman
Alan Kazdin
David Keirsey
George Kelly
Harold Kelley
Isabelle Kendig
Otto F. Kernberg
Antoni Kępiński
Doreen Kimura , sex and cognition
Akiyoshi Kitaoka
Gary Klein , (pioneer in the field of
naturalistic decision making )
Melanie Klein
Michael D. Knox antiwar activism
Brian Knutson
Kurt Koffka , (co-founder of
Gestalt psychology )
Wolfgang Köhler , (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
Lawrence Kohlberg ,
moral psychology
Heinz Kohut
Arthur Kornhauser , industrial psychologist
Konstantin Kornilov
Stephen Kosslyn
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Fritz Künkel , we-psychology
L
M
Eleanor Maccoby
Margaret Mahler ,
Hungarian , central figure in
psychoanalysis
Ernest "Mark" Mahone
George Mandler
Jean Matter Mandler
James G. March , cognitive organizational psychology
Abraham Maslow , (
Maslow's hierarchy of needs )
William Masters and Virginia Johnson , (Pioneered research into the nature of
Human sexual response , diagnosis, treatment)
Rollo May
Rufus May
Dan P. McAdams
Francis T. McAndrew
David McClelland
James McClelland
Sally-Anne McCormack
William McDougall
Patrick J McGrath
Phil McGraw
Peter McGuffin
David McNeill
George Herbert Mead
Paul Meehl
Jacques Mehler
Rivka Bertisch Meir
Andrew Meltzoff
Ronald Melzack
Wolfgang Metzger
David E. Meyer
Stanley Milgram , (
Milgram experiment )
Alice Miller
George A. Miller
Jacques-Alain Miller
Neal E. Miller ,
biofeedback
William R. Miller , (
Motivational interviewing (MI) )
Theodore Millon ,
personality disorders
Brenda Milner
Arnold Mindell ,
process oriented psychology
Walter Mischel , (
Marshmallow experiment )
Munesuke Mita
John Money
Maria Montessori
Jacob L. Moreno ,
psychodrama
C. Lloyd Morgan ,
canon
John Morton
Yūjirō Motora
Orval Hobart Mowrer
Georg Elias Müller
Henry Murray
Hugo Münsterberg
Charles Samuel Myers
N
O
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R
S
Jeanne Safer ,
psychotherapy
Eleanor Saffran
Tamaki Saitō
Tora Sandström
Virginia Satir
Shlomo Sawilowsky ,
psychometrics , construct validity for the
multitrait-multimethod matrix
Daniel Schacter
Stanley Schachter , affiliation studies,
two factor theory of emotion
Roy Schafer
K. Warner Schaie
Edgar Schein
Gunter Schmidt
Kirk Schneider , existential-integrative therapy
Erich Schröger
Walter Dill Scott
Martin Seligman , (Founder of
positive psychology ,
happiness ,
learned helplessness )
Deborah Serani
Francine Shapiro , (Founder of
EMDR )
Tamara Sher
Sara Shettleworth
Hunter B. Shirley
Morita Shoma
Volkmar Sigusch
Herbert A. Simon ,
Nobel Prize in Economics
Théodore Simon , French psychologist who developed the
Binet-Simon scale
Amy Singer
B. F. Skinner , (Founder of
radical behaviorism )
Victor Skumin
Paul Slovic
Stanley Smith Stevens
Charles Spearman
Elizabeth Spelke
Janet Taylor Spence
Herbert Spencer
Sabina Spielrein
Clara Stern
Robert Sternberg
Saul Sternberg
Paul Stevenson
Fritz Strack
George M. Stratton , founder of
UC Berkeley 's department of psychology
Harry Stack Sullivan
Carl Stumpf
William Swann
Norbert Schwarz
José Szapocznik
T
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
Henri Tajfel ,
prejudice ,
social identity
Jeffrey S. Tanaka
Shelley E. Taylor
Lewis Terman , (IQ, Genius, Talent)
Philip E. Tetlock (
The Good Judgment Project ,
Forecasting ,
Decision making )
Sharon Thompson-Schill
Edward Thorndike , puzzle boxes,
connectionism
L. L. Thurstone , pioneer in
psychometrics and
psychophysics
Edward Titchener
Edward C. Tolman
John Tooby
Ellis Paul Torrance
Anne Treisman ,
Feature integration theory ,
Attenuation theory , object perception, memory
Reiko True
Jeanne Tsai
Endel Tulving
Elliot Turiel , founder of domain theory (primary challenge to
Kohlberg's stages of moral development )
John Turner , collaborated with Tajfel on
social identity theory and later developed
self-categorization theory
Amos Tversky
David Tzuriel
U
V
W
Joan Scott Wallace , outside of government service, a psychologist and educator
Henri Wallon , French psychology
Hans-Jürgen Walter , (Founder of
Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy )
Margaret Floy Washburn , first female psychology PhD
John B. Watson , Watsonian
behaviorism
Paul Watzlawick
Ernst Heinrich Weber
David Wechsler
Nicole Weekes , psychologist and neuroscientist
Karl E. Weick , cognitive organizational psychology
Robert Weimar
Max Wertheimer , co-founder of Gestalt psychology
Drew Westen
Michael White , (Founder of
narrative therapy )
Ken Wilber , transpersonal psychology, then integral psychology
Glenn D. Wilson , personality and sexual behaviour
Richard Wiseman
Władysław Witwicki , one of the fathers of psychology in
Poland , the creator of the theory of cratism
Gustav Adolf Wohlgemuth
Donald Woods Winnicott
Robert S. Woodworth
Helen Thompson Woolley
Wilhelm Wundt , (One of the founders of modern
psychology as a discipline, father of
experimental psychology )
Karen Wynn
X
Fei Xu , Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Science
Y
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