Most-Cited Psychologists (research literature)
Jewish recipients of the Most-Cited Psychologists (research literature) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 42% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
42 documented recipients
Sigmund Freud1896
Psychoanalysis
Source: Founded modern psychology
Hans Eysenck1916
Personality psychologist known for dimensional models of temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Benjamin Winer
Psychologist (statistics and experimental design)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Sidney Siegel1916
Psychologist known for nonparametric statistics and behavioral economics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leon Festinger1919
Social psychologist who developed cognitive dissonance theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Jerome Bruner1915
Cognitive psychologist whose work shaped theories of language acquisition and cognitive development.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Lee Cronbach1916
Psychometrician who created Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Erik Erikson1902
Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Julian Rotter1916
Psychologist known for social learning theory and locus of control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Jerome Kagan1929
Developmental psychologist known for research on temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Joseph Wolpe1915
Psychiatrist who developed systematic desensitization in behavior therapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Robert Rosenthal1933
Psychologist known for research on experimenter and expectancy effects
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Milton Rokeach1918
Social psychologist known for research on human values and beliefs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Daniel Berlyne1924
Psychologist known for research on curiosity, arousal and aesthetics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Herman Witkin1916
Psychologist known for research on cognitive styles and field dependence
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Herbert Simon1978
Social scientist of administrative decision-making and bounded rationality, and with Allen Newell a pioneer of artificial intelligence; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1978
Source: Wikipedia — Herbert A. Simon / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1978
Jacob Cohen1923
Statistician who developed effect size and statistical power analysis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Abraham Maslow1908
Founder of humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Morton Deutsch1920
Social psychologist and founder of the field of conflict resolution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Lawrence Kohlberg1927
Psychologist known for the theory of stages of moral development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leonard Berkowitz1926
Social psychologist known for research on aggression
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Anna Freud1895
Founder of child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Stanley Schachter1922
Social psychologist known for the two-factor theory of emotion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Kurt Lewin1890
Founder of modern social psychology and field theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Walter Mischel1930
Personality psychologist known for the marshmallow test of self-control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
David Wechsler1896
Psychologist who created the Wechsler intelligence scales
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leo Postman1918
Psychologist known for research on perception and memory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Ulric Neisser1928
Founder of cognitive psychology as a formal discipline
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Anatol Rapoport1911
Mathematical psychologist; pioneer of game theory and conflict/cooperation research
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
Michael Posner1936
Cognitive neuroscientist known for research on attention
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Erving Goffman1922
Sociologist who studied the interactional organization of talk and everyday conversation.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Daniel Schacter1952
Cognitive neuroscientist known for research on memory and its distortions
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Solomon Asch1907
Social psychologist famed for conformity experiments
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Morris Rosenberg1922
Sociologist who created the widely used self-esteem scale
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Irving Lorge1905
Educational psychologist known for research on intelligence and readability
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Alan Kazdin1945
Clinical psychologist known for research on child behavior therapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Edward Lichtenstein
Psychologist (behavioral health, smoking-cessation research)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Erich Fromm1900
Humanistic psychoanalyst and social philosopher
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Martin Fishbein1936
Social psychologist who developed the theory of reasoned action
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Aaron T. Beck1960
Father of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the most-practiced psychotherapy in the world
Source: Britannica
Martin Seligman1942
Founder of positive psychology and theorist of learned helplessness
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Hazel Markus1949
Social psychologist known for research on the self and cultural psychology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology