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

American Experimental Historical Behaviorism

9.2 Excellent

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Kurt Lewin

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Social Historical Group Dynamics Field Theory

9.2 Excellent

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Leon Festinger

Leon Festinger was a prominent American social psychologist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of human b...

American Social Historical Cognitive Dissonance

9.2 Excellent

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Amos Tversky

Amos Tversky was an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist renowned for his work on systematic errors in human judgemen...

Historical Cognitive Decision Making Israeli American

9.2 Excellent

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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

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Wolfram Schultz

Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist known for experimental research on the neural processing of rewards, learning, and d...

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Joseph LeDoux

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American Emotion Neuroscience Fear

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Stanislas Dehaene

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Reading French Cognitive Neuroscience

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Kent Berridge

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American Reward Neuroscience Dopamine

8.6 Great

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Michael Merzenich

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American Rehabilitation Neuroscience Neuroplasticity

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John Cacioppo

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American Social Historical Neuroscience

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Giacomo Rizzolatti

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Michael Davis

American neuroscientist at Emory University known for foundational research on the amygdala's role in fear conditioning...

American Conditioning Neuroscience Fear

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

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American Emotion Neuroscience Constructionist

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Christof Koch

Christof Koch is a German-American neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neural basis of consciousness. He collab...

Neuroscience Attention Consciousness German American

8.1 Great

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Read Montague

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American Neuroscience Decision Dopamine

7.9 Good

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Adrian Raine

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Neuroscience Forensic British American Aggression

7.8 Good

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Allan Schore

Allan Schore is an American psychologist and clinician whose work integrates psychology, neuroscience, and psychoanalysi...

American Clinical Neuroscience Attachment

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Marc Lewis

Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and developmental psychologist whose work examines addiction, learning, and changes in th...

Canadian Addiction Memoir Developmental

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Brent Atkinson

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American Couples Clinical Neuroscience

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