Most-Cited Psychologists (textbooks)
Jewish recipients of the Most-Cited Psychologists (textbooks) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 43% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
44 documented recipients
Sigmund Freud1896
Psychoanalysis
Source: Founded modern psychology
Stanley Schachter1922
Social psychologist known for the two-factor theory of emotion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Erik Erikson1902
Developmental psychologist who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Stanley Milgram1933
Social psychologist famed for the obedience to authority experiments
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Martin Seligman1942
Founder of positive psychology and theorist of learned helplessness
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Abraham Maslow1908
Founder of humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Hans Eysenck1916
Personality psychologist known for dimensional models of temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Lawrence Kohlberg1927
Psychologist known for the theory of stages of moral development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leon Festinger1919
Social psychologist who developed cognitive dissonance theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Elizabeth Loftus1944
Cognitive psychologist known for research on memory and eyewitness testimony
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Jerome Kagan1929
Developmental psychologist known for research on temperament
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Robert Sternberg1949
Psychologist known for the triarchic theory of intelligence
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Walter Mischel1930
Personality psychologist known for the marshmallow test of self-control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Paul Ekman1934
Psychologist known for research on facial expressions and emotion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Noam Chomsky1957
Linguistics Theory
Source: Transformational grammar
Solomon Asch1907
Social psychologist famed for conformity experiments
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
Richard Lazarus1922
Psychologist known for the cognitive appraisal theory of stress and coping
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Judith Rodin1944
Health psychologist known for research on control and aging
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Joseph Wolpe1915
Psychiatrist who developed systematic desensitization in behavior therapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Eleanor Rosch1938
Cognitive psychologist known for prototype theory of categorization
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Solomon Snyder1938
Neuroscientist who identified opiate receptors in the brain, transforming neuropharmacology.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alfred Adler1870
Founder of individual psychology and the concept of the inferiority complex
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Martin Orne1927
Psychiatrist known for research on hypnosis and demand characteristics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Bernice Neugarten1916
Psychologist and pioneer in the study of adult development and aging
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Donald Meichenbaum1940
Founder of cognitive behavior modification and stress inoculation training
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Hans Selye1907
Endocrinologist who developed the scientific concept of biological stress.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Zick Rubin1970
Social psychologist who created the first scientific scale of romantic love
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the most eminent psychologists
Jonathan Freedman1937
Social psychologist known for research on crowding and compliance
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
Ulric Neisser1928
Founder of cognitive psychology as a formal discipline
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Kurt Lewin1890
Founder of modern social psychology and field theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leonard Berkowitz1926
Social psychologist known for research on aggression
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Jerome Singer1924
Psychologist known for research on daydreaming and imagination
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Leonard Krasner1924
Clinical psychologist and pioneer of behavior modification
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
David Rosenhan1929
Psychologist known for the study on being sane in insane places
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Richard Herrnstein1930
Experimental psychologist known for the matching law in behavior
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Howard Gardner1943
Developmental psychologist who proposed the theory of multiple intelligences
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Marshall Segall
Psychologist (cross-cultural psychology)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
K. Warner Schaie1928
Psychologist known for longitudinal research on cognitive aging
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Aaron T. Beck1960
Father of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the most-practiced psychotherapy in the world
Source: Britannica
Edward Zigler1930
Developmental psychologist and a founder of the Head Start program
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Anthony Greenwald1939
Social psychologist who co-created the Implicit Association Test
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology