List of psychologists
This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline.
Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on comparative psychology, list of clinical psychologists, list of developmental psychologists, list of educational psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists, list of social psychologists, and list of cognitive scientists. Many psychologists included in those lists are also listed below:
A
- Alfred Adler,
- Mary Ainsworth
- George Albee
- Jüri Allik
- Lauren Alloy
- Gordon Allport, personality psychology
- Adelbert Ames, Jr.
- Harlene Anderson
- John R. Anderson
- Ernst Angel
- Heinz Ansbacher
- Edgar Anstey
- Michael Argyle
- Magda B. Arnold
- Solomon Asch,
- Roberto Assagioli
- John William Atkinson
- Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
- Averroes
- Virginia Axline, play therapy
B
- Arthur J. Bachrach, underwater and extreme environments
- Alan Baddeley
- Renee Baillargeon
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
- Albert Bandura, social learning theory
- Aron K. Barbey
- Russell Barkley
- Jerome Barkow
- Dermot Barnes-Holmes
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Deirdre Barrett, dreams and hypnosis
- Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Lawrence W. Barsalou
- Frederic Bartlett, memory schema
- Daniel Batson
- Diana Baumrind
- Geoffrey Beattie, body language, psychology in sustainable consumption
- Gershon Ben-Shakhar
- Hubert Benoit
- Richard Bentall
- Larry E. Beutler, systematic treatment selection
- Alfred Binet,
- Robert A. Bjork
- Randolph Blake, binocular rivalry
- Ray Blanchard, sexology
- Theodore H. Blau, first practising clinician elected President of the APA
- Stephen F. Blinkhorn
- Paul Bloom
- Edmund Bourne
- Gordon H. Bower
- John Bowlby, attachment theory
- Nathaniel Branden, self-esteem, objectivism
- Franz Brentano
- Shlomo Breznitz
- Carl Brigham
- Donald Broadbent, cognitive psychology
- Urie Bronfenbrenner, ecological systems theory
- Kelly Brownell
- Jerome Bruner, child development
- Emily Bushnell
- David Buss
- Brian Butterworth
- Ruth M. J. Byrne
C
- Mary Whiton Calkins
- Donald T. Campbell
- Susan Carey
- James Cattell, helped establish psychology as a legitimate science
- Raymond Cattell, factor analysis, 16 Personality Factors and the Big Five, fluid versus crystallized intelligence
- Stephen J. Ceci, intelligence and memory
- Jean-Martin Charcot
- Nancy Chodorow
- Noam Chomsky,
- Robert Cialdini
- Kenneth B. Clark
- Lee Anna Clark
- Asher Cohen
- Clyde Coombs
- Cary Cooper
- Suzanne Corkin
- Leda Cosmides
- Catharine Cox,
- Lee Cronbach,
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
D
- Martin Daly
- Martin Dannecker
- John Darley
- Daniel O David
- Raymond Dean, neuropsychology
- Randy Dellosa
- John Dewey,
- Ed Diener,
- Dietrich Doerner
- Robin Dunbar
- David F. Duncan
E
- Hermann Ebbinghaus, experimental study of memory
- Jennifer Eberhardt, racial bias in criminal justice
- Paul Ekman,
- Albert Ellis,
- Hadyn Ellis
- Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Filipino psychology
- Erik H. Erikson,
- Milton H. Erickson
- John E. Exner, developed the comprehensive system for administering, coding, and interpreting the Rorschach test
- Hans Eysenck
F
- Norman Farberow
- Gustav Fechner, founder of psychophysics
- Leon Festinger, cognitive dissonance
- Cordelia Fine
- Susan Fiske
- Edna B. Foa
- Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy
- Marie-Louise von Franz
- Barbara Fredrickson
- Armindo Freitas-Magalhães
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud,
- Erich Fromm,
- Adrian Furnham
G
- John Gabrieli
- Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., mirror self-recognition test
- Francis Galton,
- Laszlo Garai
- Riley Gardner
- Elmer R. Gates
- Susan Gathercole
- Isabel Gauthier, perceptual expertise, object and face recognition
- Bertram Gawronski
- Kenneth Gergen, social constructionism
- Hans-Werner Gessmann, humanistic psychodrama
- J. J. Gibson
- Gerd Gigerenzer, bounded rationality
- Daniel Gilbert,
- Gustave Gilbert
- Carol Gilligan
- Fernand Gobet, cognitive psychology
- Stan Gooch
- Christian Gostečnik, clinical psychology and marriage-and-family therapist
- Irving I. Gottesman, behavioral genetics
- Richard Green, sexology
- Florence Goodenough
- John Gottman, marital stability and relationships
- Elizabeth Gould
- James Gross
- Robert Grosseteste
- Félix Guattari, founder of schizoanalysis
- J. P. Guilford
- Edwin Ray Guthrie
H
- Jonathan Haidt,
- Jay Haley
- G. Stanley Hall
- Robert D. Hare
- Harry Harlow
- Chris Hatcher
- Steven C. Hayes
- Donald O. Hebb
- Fritz Heider
- Asgeir Helgason
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hubert Hermans
- Richard Herrnstein
- William Edmund Hick
- James Hillman
- Margie Holmes
- Edwin Holt
- Keith Holyoak
- Lara Honos-Webb
- Bruce Hood, developmental cognitive neuroscience
- Karen Horney
- Clark L. Hull
- Nicholas Humphrey
- Edwin Hutchins
I
- Bärbel Inhelder
J
- William James,
- Marie Jahoda
- Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychology, bipolar disorder
- Joseph Jastrow
- Julian Jaynes
- Arthur Jensen,
- Marcia K. Johnson
- Mark H. Johnson
- Philip Johnson-Laird, cognition, psychology of reasoning
- Ernest Jones
- Mary Cover Jones
- Carl Jung,
K
- Jerome Kagan
- Daniel Kahneman,
- Mieko Kamiya
- Jacob Robert Kantor, organized scientific values into a coherent system of psychology
- Nancy Kanwisher
- Rachel and Stephen Kaplan,
- Leonard Katz
- Alan S. Kaufman
- Nadeen L. Kaufman
- Alan Kazdin
- David Keirsey
- George Kelly
- Harold Kelley
- Otto F. Kernberg
- Antoni Kępiński
- Doreen Kimura, sex and cognition
- Akiyoshi Kitaoka
- Gary Klein,
- Melanie Klein
- Michael D. Knox antiwar activism
- Brian Knutson
- Kurt Koffka,
- Wolfgang Köhler,
- Lawrence Kohlberg, moral psychology
- Heinz Kohut
- Arthur Kornhauser, industrial psychologist
- Stephen Kosslyn
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
- Fritz Künkel, we-psychology
L
- Jacques Lacan
- George Trumbull Ladd
- Ellen Langer
- Jan van der Lans
- Karl Lashley
- Bibb Latane
- Richard Lazarus
- John Francis Leader
- Timothy Leary
- Patrick Leman
- Mark Lepper
- Jerre Levy, lateralization of brain function
- Kurt Lewin, social psychology
- David Lewis
- Rensis Likert, Likert Scale
- Marsha M. Linehan
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory
- Konrad Lorenz
- Alexander Luria
M
- Margaret Mahler, Hungarian, central figure in psychoanalysis
- George Mandler
- Jean Matter Mandler
- James G. March, cognitive organizational psychology
- Abraham Maslow,
- William Masters and Virginia Johnson,
- Rollo May
- Rufus May
- Dan P. McAdams
- Francis T. McAndrew
- David McClelland
- James McClelland
- William McDougall
- Patrick J McGrath
- Phil McGraw
- Rivka Bertisch Meir
- John Money
- Peter McGuffin
- David McNeill
- George Herbert Mead
- Paul Meehl
- Jacques Mehler
- Andrew Meltzoff
- Ronald Melzack
- Wolfgang Metzger
- David E. Meyer
- Stanley Milgram,
- Alice Miller
- George A. Miller
- Jacques-Alain Miller
- Neal E. Miller, biofeedback
- William R. Miller,
- Theodore Millon, personality disorders
- Brenda Milner
- Arnold Mindell, process oriented psychology
- Walter Mischel,
- Munesuke Mita
- Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama
- C. Lloyd Morgan, canon
- John Morton
- Yūjirō Motora
- Orval Hobart Mowrer
- Georg Elias Müller
- Henry Murray
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Charles Samuel Myers
- Mahesh Patil
N
- Ulric Neisser
- Alexander Sutherland Neill
- Erich Neumann
- Richard Nisbett
- Donald Norman
- Kent Norman
O
- Bill O'Hanlon
- Charles E. Osgood
- J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner
P
- Allan Paivio
- Linda Papadopoulos
- Ivan Pavlov
- Fritz Perls
- Christopher Peterson
- Eva Bendix Petersen
- Jordan Peterson
- Jean Piaget,
- Robert O. Pihl
- Steven Pinker,
- Robert Plomin
- Michael Posner
- Jonathan Potter
- James W. Prescott
- Lorine Livingston Pruette
- Zenon Pylyshyn, cognitive psychology
R
- Rhazes,
- Otto Rank,
- Rosalie Rayner
- Reimut Reiche
- Ulf-Dietrich Reips
- Daniel Reisberg
- Robert Remez
- Samuel Renshaw
- Cecil R. Reynolds
- Judith Rich Harris
- Sylvia Rimm
- Carl Rogers,
- Eleanor Rosch
- Paul Rosenfels
- Robert Rosenthal
- Barbara Rothbaum, virtual reality therapy
- John Rowan
- Philip Rubin
- David Rumelhart
- A. John Rush
- Michelle K. Ryan
S
- Jeanne Safer, psychotherapy
- Eleanor Saffran
- Tamaki Saitō
- Virginia Satir
- Shlomo Sawilowsky, psychometrics, construct validity for the multitrait-multimethod matrix
- Daniel Schacter
- Stanley Schachter, affiliation studies, two factor theory of emotion
- Roy Schafer
- K. Warner Schaie
- Edgar Schein
- Gunter Schmidt
- Kirk Schneider, existential-integrative therapy
- Erich Schröger
- Walter Dill Scott
- Martin Seligman,
- Francine Shapiro,
- Tamara Sher
- Sara Shettleworth
- Hunter B. Shirley
- Morita Shoma
- Volkmar Sigusch
- Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize in Economics
- Théodore Simon, French psychologist who developed the Binet-Simon scale
- B. F. Skinner,
- Victor Skumin
- Paul Slovic
- Stanley Smith Stevens
- Charles Spearman
- Elizabeth Spelke
- Sabina Spielrein
- Clara Stern
- Robert Sternberg
- Saul Sternberg
- Paul Stevenson
- George M. Stratton, founder of UC Berkeley's department of psychology
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Carl Stumpf
- William Swann
- Norbert Schwarz
- José Szapocznik
T
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
- Henri Tajfel, prejudice, social identity
- Jeffrey S. Tanaka
- Lewis Terman,
- Philip E. Tetlock
- Sharon Thompson-Schill
- Edward Thorndike, puzzle boxes, connectionism
- L. L. Thurstone, pioneer in psychometrics and psychophysics
- Edward Titchener
- Edward C. Tolman
- John Tooby
- Ellis Paul Torrance
- Anne Treisman, visual attention, object perception, and memory.
- Jeanne Tsai
- Endel Tulving
- Elliot Turiel, founder of domain theory
- John Turner, collaborated with Tajfel on social identity theory and later developed self-categorization theory
- Amos Tversky
- David Tzuriel
U
- Dimitri Uznadze
V
- Douglas Vakoch
- Alfons Vansteenwegen
- Lev Vygotsky,
- Stuart Vyse
W
- Henri Wallon, French psychology
- Hans-Jürgen Walter,
- Margaret Floy Washburn, first female psychology PhD
- John B. Watson, Watsonian behaviorism
- Paul Watzlawick
- Ernst Heinrich Weber
- David Wechsler
- Karl E. Weick, cognitive organizational psychology
- Robert Weimar
- Max Wertheimer, co-founder of Gestalt psychology
- Drew Westen
- Michael White,
- Ken Wilber, transpersonal psychology, then integral psychology
- Glenn D. Wilson, personality and sexual behaviour
- Richard Wiseman
- Władysław Witwicki, one of the fathers of psychology in Poland, the creator of the theory of cratism
- Gustav Adolf Wohlgemuth
- Donald Woods Winnicott
- Robert S. Woodworth
- Wilhelm Wundt,
- Karen Wynn
Y
- Robert Yerkes
- Irvin D. Yalom,
Z
- Robert J. Zajonc
- Oliver Zangwill
- René Zazzo
- Bluma Zeigarnik,
- Philip Zimbardo
- Kenneth Zucker