100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th C.
Jewish recipients of the 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th C. documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 40% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
40 documented recipients
Sigmund Freud1896
Psychoanalysis
Source: Founded modern psychology
Leon Festinger1919
Social psychologist who developed cognitive dissonance theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Stanley Schachter1922
Social psychologist known for the two-factor theory of emotion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Abraham Maslow1908
Founder of humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Erik Erikson1902
Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Hans Eysenck1916
Personality psychologist known for dimensional models of temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Kurt Lewin1890
Founder of modern social psychology and field theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Jerome Kagan1929
Developmental psychologist known for research on temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Walter Mischel1930
Personality psychologist known for the marshmallow test of self-control
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
Lawrence Kohlberg1927
Psychologist known for the theory of stages of moral development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Martin Seligman1942
Founder of positive psychology and theorist of learned helplessness
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Ulric Neisser1928
Founder of cognitive psychology as a formal discipline
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Herbert Simon1978
Research into decision-making processes within economic organizations
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Economics 1978
Noam Chomsky1957
Linguistics Theory
Source: Transformational grammar
Solomon Asch1907
Social psychologist famed for conformity experiments
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Stanley Milgram1933
Social psychologist famed for the obedience to authority experiments
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Lee Cronbach1916
Psychometrician who created Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
David Wechsler1896
Psychologist who created the Wechsler intelligence scales
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Joseph Wolpe1915
Psychiatrist who developed systematic desensitization in behavior therapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Michael Posner1936
Cognitive neuroscientist known for research on attention
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Elizabeth Loftus1944
Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Paul Ekman1934
Psychologist known for research on facial expressions and emotion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Robert Sternberg1949
Psychologist known for the triarchic theory of intelligence
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Julian Rotter1916
Psychologist known for social learning theory and locus of control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Alfred Adler1870
Founder of individual psychology and the concept of the inferiority complex
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Alexander Luria1902
Founder of modern neuropsychology and the study of the brain's functional organization.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Leonard Berkowitz1926
Social psychologist known for research on aggression
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Eliot Aronson1932
Social psychologist known for cognitive dissonance research and the jigsaw classroom
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Irving Janis1918
Social psychologist who developed the concept of groupthink
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Morton Deutsch1920
Social psychologist and founder of the field of conflict resolution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Richard Lazarus1922
Psychologist known for the cognitive appraisal theory of stress and coping
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Lev Vygotsky1896
Psychologist whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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
Amos Tversky1937
Cognitive psychologist who co-founded the study of heuristics and biases
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Herman Witkin1916
Psychologist known for research on cognitive styles and field dependence
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Anna Freud1895
Founder of child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leo Postman1918
Psychologist known for research on perception and memory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Benjamin Winer
Psychologist (statistics and experimental design)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology