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Occupation: Psychologist

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
7-Feb-1870 28-May-1937 Founder of Individual Psychology
Gordon W. Allport
Psychologist
11-Nov-1897 9-Oct-1967 Personality: A Psychological Interpretation
Alois Alzheimer
Doctor
14-Jun-1864 19-Dec-1915 Alzheimer's Disease
Dan Ariely
Economist
29-Apr-1968   The Upside of Irrationality
Albert Bandura
Psychologist
4-Dec-1925   Bobo doll experiments
Bruno Bettelheim
Psychologist
28-Aug-1903 13-Mar-1990 Fraudulent child psychologist
Alfred Binet
Psychologist
11-Jul-1857 8-Oct-1911 Binet-Simon intelligence test
Edwin G. Boring
Psychologist
23-Oct-1886 1-Jul-1968 A History of Experimental Psychology
Joyce Brothers
Psychologist
20-Sep-1928   Pop psychologist
James McKeen Cattell
Psychologist
24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom
Kenneth B. Clark
Psychologist
14-Jul-1914 1-May-2005 Studied the effects of prejudice on children
Ram Dass
Religion
5-Apr-1931   Be Here Now
Paul Ekman
Psychologist
15-Feb-1934   Facial Action Coding System
Albert Ellis
Psychologist
27-Sep-1913 24-Jul-2007 Rational emotive behavior therapy
Erik Erikson
Psychologist
15-Jun-1902 12-May-1994 Eight Stages of Development
Hans Eysenck
Psychologist
4-Mar-1916 4-Sep-1997 Intelligence and personality
Martha J. Farah
Psychologist
c. 1955   Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn
Robert A. Fein
Psychologist
?   National Threat Assessment Center
Anna Freud
Relative
3-Dec-1895 9-Oct-1982 Daughter of Sigmund Freud
Erich Fromm
Psychologist
23-Mar-1900 18-Mar-1980 Psychoanalyst, Humanist
Carol Gilligan
Psychologist
28-Nov-1936   In a Different Voice
Richard Gregory
Psychologist
24-Jul-1923 17-May-2010 Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
David Hartley
Philosopher
8-Aug-1705 28-Aug-1757 Theory of associationism
Karen Horney
Psychologist
16-Sep-1885 4-Dec-1952 Disputed Freud's concept of "penis envy"
Clark L. Hull
Psychologist
24-May-1884 10-May-1952 Principles of Behavior
William James
Philosopher
11-Jan-1842 26-Aug-1910 The Principles of Psychology
Pierre Janet
Psychologist
30-May-1859 24-Feb-1947 Founder of Automatic Psychology
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist
5-Mar-1934   The psychology of economics
George Kelly
Psychologist
28-Apr-1905 6-Mar-1967 Personal Construct Theory of personality
Melanie Klein
Psychologist
30-Mar-1882 22-Sep-1960 The Psychoanalysis of Children
Lawrence Kohlberg
Psychologist
25-Oct-1927 17-Jan-1987 Stages of moral development
Kurt Lewin
Psychologist
9-Sep-1890 12-Feb-1947 Field theorist, group dynamicist
Alexander Luria
Psychologist
16-Jul-1902 14-Aug-1977 Pioneer of neuropsychology
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
1-Apr-1908 8-Jun-1970 Hierarchy of Needs
Rollo May
Psychologist
21-Apr-1909 22-Oct-1994 Love and Will
Elton Mayo
Psychologist
26-Dec-1880 7-Sep-1949 Student of Industrial Civilization
William McDougall
Psychologist
22-Jun-1871 28-Nov-1938 An Introduction to Social Psychology
Stanley Milgram
Psychologist
15-Aug-1933 20-Dec-1984 Milgram Experiment
Jean Piaget
Psychologist
9-Aug-1896 17-Sep-1980 Elaborated the stages of childhood
Steven Pinker
Linguist
18-Sep-1954   The Language Instinct
Walter B. Pitkin
Psychologist
6-Feb-1878 25-Jan-1953 Life Begins at Forty
Carl Rogers
Psychologist
8-Jan-1902 4-Feb-1987 Non-directive theory of psychology
Roxanne Shante
Rapper
9-Nov-1969   Roxanne's Revenge
Alexander Shulgin
Chemist
17-Jun-1925   Rediscovered MDMA
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
20-Mar-1904 18-Aug-1990 Radical Behaviorism
Lewis Terman
Psychologist
15-Jan-1877 21-Dec-1956 Intelligence tests
Edward Titchener
Psychologist
11-Jan-1867 3-Aug-1927 Structural psychology
Tomas Tranströmer
Poet
15-Apr-1931   Scandinavian poet
Amos Tversky
Psychologist
16-Mar-1937 2-Jun-1996 Cognitive psychologist, studied risks
Neil Clark Warren
Business
18-Sep-1934   Founder, eHarmony
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
John Watson
Psychologist
9-Jan-1878 25-Sep-1958 Founder of Behaviorism
Terry Winograd
Scientist
24-Feb-1946   Understanding Natural Language
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist
16-Aug-1832 31-Aug-1920 Father of Experimental Psychology
Philip Zimbardo
Psychologist
23-Mar-1933   1971 Stanford Prison Experiment
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher
21-Mar-1949   Lacan theorist, intellectual rockstar





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