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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

9.2 Excellent

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Aaron Beck

Aaron Beck (1921-2021) was an American clinical psychologist renowned for pioneering cognitive therapy. His work focused...

American Clinical Cognitive Cbt

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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Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers was a prominent American psychologist known for developing person-centered therapy. His work emphasizes the...

American Historical Clinical Humanistic

9.1 Excellent

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Edward Thorndike

Edward Thorndike was an American psychologist whose experimental work influenced the study of learning and educational p...

Educational American Learning Historical

9.1 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

9.0 Excellent

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Gordon Allport

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American Social Historical Personality

8.7 Great

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Walter Mischel

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American Personality Situationism Social Cognitive

8.6 Great

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Robert McCrae

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American Personality Big Five Traits

8.6 Great

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Lewis Goldberg

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American Personality Big Five Psychometrics

8.6 Great

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Thomas Bouchard

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. is an American psychologist known for research in behavioral genetics and individual differences....

American Personality Twins Heritability

8.2 Great

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Jeffrey Young

Jeffrey E. Young is an American psychologist who developed schema therapy, an integrative treatment derived partly from...

American Clinical Personality Schema Therapy

8.0 Great

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David Buss

David Buss is an American evolutionary psychologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin whose research ex...

American Evolutionary Personality Mating

7.8 Good

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Simine Vazire

Simine Vazire is a psychologist known for research in personality science, especially the accuracy and limits of self-kn...

American Replication Personality Self Knowledge

7.8 Good

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Henry Murray

Henry Murray (1893–1988) was an American psychologist who directed the Harvard Psychological Clinic and made foundationa...

American Historical Personality Projective

7.5 Good

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Jane Loevinger

Jane Loevinger (1918–2008) was an American developmental psychologist who developed a comprehensive, sequential model of...

American Historical Developmental Personality

7.5 Good

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Samuel Gosling

Samuel D. Gosling is a personality and social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines h...

American Environment Personality Big Five

7.5 Good

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Hans Eysenck

Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was a German-British psychologist who developed a influential three-factor personality model (e...

Historical Personality German British Traits

7.4 Good

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Drew Westen

American psychologist at Emory University known for the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagn...

American Assessment Clinical Personality

7.4 Good

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Timothy Leary

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American Interpersonal Historical Personality

5.8 Mediocre