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B.F. Skinner

B.F. Skinner was a prominent American psychologist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of learning. He pio...

American Experimental Historical Behaviorism

9.20 Excellent

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Leon Festinger

Conflicts between beliefs and behavior were a defining concern in Leon Festinger's research. The American social psychol...

American Social Historical Cognitive Dissonance

9.18 Excellent

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Carl Rogers

Within humanistic psychology, Carl Rogers helped establish an approach to therapy centered on the person's own experienc...

American Historical Clinical Humanistic

9.12 Excellent

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Edward Thorndike

Experimental studies of learning gave Edward Thorndike an important place in American psychology and educational researc...

Educational American Learning Historical

9.05 Excellent

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Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist known for experimental research on human memory and eyewitness te...

American Memory False Memory Forensic

9.00 Excellent

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Mary Ainsworth

Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist who developed the Strange Situation proce...

American Historical Infant Developmental

8.95 Great

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Jerome Bruner

Jerome Bruner was an American psychologist whose work helped establish cognitive psychology as an alternative to behavio...

American Education Historical Cognitive

8.88 Great

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Marsha Linehan

Marsha M. Linehan is an American psychologist who developed dialectical behavior therapy, commonly called DBT. The treat...

American Clinical Dbt Borderline

8.85 Great

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Paul Meehl

Paul E. Meehl was an American clinical psychologist, philosopher of science, and professor at the University of Minnesot...

American Historical Clinical Actuarial

8.85 Great

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Larry Squire

Larry Squire is an American neuroscientist whose research examines the organization of memory and the neurological effec...

American Memory Amnesia Neuropsychology

8.80 Great

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Michael Posner

Michael I. Posner is an American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research has examined the neural mechan...

American Cognitive Neuroscience Attention

8.78 Great

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Ulric Neisser

Ulric Neisser was an American psychologist whose research helped establish the modern study of cognition, especially per...

American Memory Historical Cognitive

8.75 Great

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Solomon Asch

Solomon Asch (1907–1996) was a Polish-American social psychologist whose 1950s conformity experiments showed that indivi...

American Social Historical Group

8.72 Great

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Edward Deci

Edward L. Deci is an American psychologist whose research focuses on human motivation, autonomy, and psychological well-...

American Motivation Autonomy Intrinsic

8.72 Great

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Michael Gazzaniga

Michael Gazzaniga is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for research on people whose cerebral hemispheres were s...

American Cognitive Consciousness Split Brain

8.72 Great

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Gordon Allport

Gordon Allport (1897–1967) was an American psychologist who pioneered trait theory, introduced the distinction between i...

American Social Historical Personality

8.70 Great

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George Albee

George Albee was an American psychologist recognized as a pioneer in the field of community psychology. He served as the...

American Community Historical Social Justice

7.40 Good

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Julian Rappaport

Julian Rappaport is an American psychologist recognized as a foundational figure in the field of community psychology. H...

American Community Social Justice Empowerment

7.35 Good

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Seymour Sarason

Seymour B. Sarason was an American psychologist whose work helped establish community psychology as a distinct field. He...

American Community Historical School Psychology

7.25 Good

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James Kelly

James G. Kelly is an American psychologist recognized as a foundational figure in the development of community psycholog...

American Community Historical Ecological

7.15 Good