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A psychologist is someone who studies the mind and behavior of humans and other animals. Research psychologists study perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, personality, behavior and interpersonal relationships. Psychologists in health services include counselors who work in public...
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Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen (born August 24, 1923) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1923 (age 86 years)
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1904
Date of death:
- Aug 18, 1990 (age 86 years)
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1902
Date of death:
- Feb 4, 1987 (age 85 years)
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1902
Date of death:
- May 21, 1983 (age 80 years)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1850
Date of death:
- Feb 26, 1909 (age 59 years)
Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916– February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1916
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 2001 (age 84 years)
John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1859
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1952 (age 92 years)
J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe Rushton (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, most widely known for his work on intelligence and racial differences, particularly his book Race, Evolution and Behavior. His work...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1943 (age 66 years)
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 did not access...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1920
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 1997 (age 77 years)
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder as well as suffering from the disorder since her early adulthood. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1946 (age 63 years)
Morita Shoma
Dr. Morita Masatake, also read as Morita Shoma (1874 - 1938 (森田 正馬), was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and the founder of Morita Therapy, a branch of clinical psychology strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism. In his capacity as the head of...
Date of birth:
- 1874
Date of death:
- 1938 (age 64 years)
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the...
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1856
Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1939 (age 83 years)
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist most notable for his controversial study known as the Milgram Experiment. The study was conducted in the 1960s during Milgram's professorship at Yale. Milgram...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1933
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1984 (age 51 years)
Stephen LaBerge
Stephen LaBerge (b. 1947) is a psychophysiologist and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. In 1967 he received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics. He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology at Stanford...
Timothy Leary
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1920
Date of death:
- May 31, 1996 (age 75 years)
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 - 31 August 1920) was a German medical doctor, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1832
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1920 (age 88 years)
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1894
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1956 (age 62 years)
Margaret Singer
Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, (1921 - 2003) was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing...
Date of birth:
- 1921
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 2003 (age 82 years)
Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1954 (age 55 years)
Wilfred Bion
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was a British psychoanalyst. A pioneer in group dynamics, he was associated with the 'Tavistock group', the group of pioneering psychologists that founded the Tavistock Institute in 1946...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1897
Date of death:
- Nov 8, 1979 (age 82 years)
Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 23, 1900
Date of death:
- Mar 18, 1980 (age 80 years)
James Dobson
James Clayton "Jim" Dobson, Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FOTF). Dobson, who founded the nonprofit organization in 1977 and also chaired it until 2003, has...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1936 (age 73 years)
Sándor Ferenczi
Sándor Ferenczi (July 7, 1873, Miskolc, Hungary – April 22, 1933, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst.
Born Sándor Fränkel to Baruch Fränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz, both Polish Jews, he later magyarized his surname to Ferenczi.
Over the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1873
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1933 (age 59 years)
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Иван Петрович Павлов, September 14, 1849 – February 27, 1936) was a Russian, and later Soviet, physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research...
Date of birth:
- Sep 14, 1849
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1936 (age 86 years)
Lloyd deMause
Lloyd deMause, pronounced de-Moss (born September 19, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American social thinker known for his work in the field of psychohistory. He did graduate work in political science at Columbia University and later trained as a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1931 (age 78 years)
Alice Miller
Alice Miller (born January 12, 1923) is a psychologist and author, noted for her work on child abuse in its many forms, including physical abuse, emotional abuse and child sexual abuse. Miller studied and wrote about the effects of poisonous...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1923 (age 87 years)
Christopher Evans
Dr Christopher Riche Evans (1931 – 10 October 1979) was a British psychologist, computer scientist, and author.
A Welshman and the nephew of writer Caradoc Evans, Evans received his PhD. in psychology from Duke University in the US, and was a...
Date of birth:
- 1931
Date of death:
- Oct 10, 1979 (age 48 years)
Robert Yerkes
Robert Mearns Yerkes (May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1876
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1956 (age 79 years)
James W. Prescott
James W. Prescott (born c.1930) is an American developmental psychologist, whose research focused on the origins of violence, particularly as it relates to a lack of mother-child bonding.
Prescott was a health scientist administrator at the National...
Date of birth:
- 1930 (age 80 years)
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, known at that time as Binet test basically today called IQ test. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1857
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1911 (age 54 years)
Otto Rank
Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and therapist. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1884
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1939 (age 55 years)
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a sociologist. Born in New York City in 1948, she has focused her research on psychoanalysis and...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870, Mariahilfer Straße 208, Rudolfsheim, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychologist and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1870
Date of death:
- May 28, 1937 (age 67 years)
Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 Williamsburg, Massachusetts – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on animal behavior and the learning process led to...
Date of birth:
- Aug 31, 1874
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1949 (age 74 years)
Robert M. Gagné
Robert Mills Gagné (August 21, 1916– April 28, 2002) was an American educational psychologist best known for his "Conditions of Learning". Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during WWII for the air force with pilot training. Later he went on...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1916
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 2002 (age 85 years)
William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious...
Date of birth:
- Jan 11, 1842
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1910 (age 68 years)
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 also conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment....
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1878
Date of death:
- Sep 25, 1958 (age 80 years)
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Russian: Лев Семёнович Вы́готский or Выго́тский; Belarusian: Леў Сямёнавіч Выго́цкі; November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist and the founder of cultural-historical psychology.
Vygotsky...
Date of birth:
- 1896
Date of death:
- Jun 11, 1934 (age 38 years)
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjaʒɛ]; born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist and philosopher, well known for his pedagogical studies. His theory of cognitive development and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1896
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 1980 (age 84 years)
William Moulton Marston
Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1893
Date of death:
- May 2, 1947 (age 54 years)
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1913
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1994 (age 80 years)
James Mark Baldwin
James Mark Baldwin (1861–1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university....
Date of birth:
- 1861
Date of death:
- 1934 (age 73 years)
Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.
In 1973, Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda's College,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1951 (age 58 years)
William Schutz
not to be confused with "Schulz" or "Schultz", see also William Schulz (disambiguation)
William Schutz (19 December 1925 in Chicago, Illinois - 9 November 2002 in Muir Beach, California) was an American psychologist.
Schutz practiced at the Esalen...
Date of birth:
- 1925
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 2002 (age 77 years)
W. D. Hamilton
William Donald Hamilton FRS (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) aka Bill Hamilton was a British evolutionary biologist whom Richard Dawkins praised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.
Hamilton became famous through his...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1936
Date of death:
- Mar 7, 2000 (age 63 years)
Milton H. Erickson
Milton Hyland Erickson, (5 December 1901 in Aurum, Nevada – 25 March 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1901
Date of death:
- Mar 25, 1980 (age 78 years)
Fritz Perls
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent.
He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1893
Date of death:
- Mar 14, 1970 (age 76 years)
Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with Systemic Constellations. Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1916
Date of death:
- Sep 10, 1988 (age 72 years)
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein (March 30, 1882 – September 22, 1960) was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had a significant impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1882
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 1960 (age 78 years)
Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger (pronounced Feh-sting-er) (New York City, May 8, 1919 – New York City, February 11, 1989), was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Social Comparison Theory, and the...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1919
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1989 (age 69 years)
Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir – December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1841
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1931 (age 90 years)
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן) (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.
With Amos Tversky and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1934 (age 75 years)
Amos Tversky
Amos Nathan Tversky, (Hebrew: עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 - June 2, 2009) was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1937
Date of death:
- Jun 2, 1996 (age 59 years)
Lawrence Kohlberg
Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987) was an American psychologist born in Bronxville, New York, who served as a professor at the University of Chicago, as well as Harvard University. Having specialized in research on moral...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1927
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1987 (age 59 years)
Cyril Burt
Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist who contributed to educational psychology and claimed to have developed the method of factor analysis in psychological testing, although his mentor and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1883
Date of death:
- Oct 10, 1971 (age 88 years)
David Hartley
David Hartley (21 June 1705–28 August 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.
David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire. His mother died three months after his birth....
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1705
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 1757 (age 52 years)
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (March 26, 1905, Czerningasse 6, Leopoldstadt – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1905
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1997 (age 92 years)
Hans Eysenck
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 – September 4, 1997) was a British psychologist of German origin, best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1916
Date of death:
- Sep 4, 1997 (age 81 years)
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
Sarah Blaffer was born on July 11, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. She was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1946 (age 63 years)
Clayton Alderfer
Clayton Paul Alderfer (born September 1, 1940 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist who further expanded Maslow's hierarchy of needs by categorizing the hierarchy into his ERG theory (Existence, Relatedness and Growth). Alderfer...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1940 (age 69 years)
