List of Jewish American psychologists
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2007) |
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2007) |
This is a list of famous Jewish psychologists. For other famous people of the Jewish faith, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
- Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
- Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
- Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
- Paul Ekman, facial expressions
- Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
- Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
- Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
- Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
- Israel Goldiamond, behavioral psychologist and a founder of behavior modification
- Edith S. Lisansky Gomberg, clinical psychologist & alcoholism researcher
- John Gottman, marriage and relationships
- Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
- Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
- Irving Janis, social psychologist
- Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of Primal Therapy
- Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Amos Tversky winner (2002)
- Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
- Kurt Lewin, motivational psychologist (field theory)
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
- Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, and founder of Recovery International
- Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
- Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
- Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
- Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
- Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
- Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
- Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
- Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
- David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
- Lee Ross, fundamental attribution error
- Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
- Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
- Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
- Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
- Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
- Amos Tversky, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Daniel Kahneman winner (2002)
- David Wechsler, intelligence testing
- George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
- Bernard Weiner, attribution theory
- Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist
