List of social psychologists
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The following is a list of academician
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See also: list of psychologists, list of sociologists
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
s, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...
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- Lauren AlloyLauren AlloyLauren B. Alloy is a professor of psychology at Temple University recognized in the area of mood disorders. Her research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, and biopsychosocial processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder...
- Floyd AllportFloyd Henry AllportFloyd Henry Allport was professor of social psychology and political psychology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs from 1924 until 1956, and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley...
- Gordon AllportGordon AllportGordon Willard Allport was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology...
- Irwin AltmanIrwin AltmanIrwin Altman, also known as Irv Altman, was born on July 16, 1930 in New York City, New York. Altman is a social psychologist who earned his B.A. degree from New York University in 1951, his M.A. degree from the University of Maryland in 1954 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1957...
- Norman H. AndersonNorman H. AndersonNorman Henry Anderson is a social psychologist, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where he was one of three founders of the Department of Psychology...
- Michael ArgyleMichael Argyle (psychologist)Michael Argyle was one of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics...
- Elliot AronsonElliot AronsonElliot Aronson is an American psychologist. He is listed among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, best known for the invention of the Jigsaw Classroom as a method of reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice; cognitive dissonance research, and influential social psychology...
- Solomon AschSolomon AschSolomon Eliot Asch , also known as Shlaym, was an American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology.-Early life and education:...
- Berit ÅsBerit ÅsBerit Ås is a Norwegian politician, professor of social psychology, and feminist. She was the first leader of the Socialist Left Party and served as a Member of Parliament 1973–1977. She was also a deputy member of parliament 1969–1973 and 1977–1981...
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- Mahzarin BanajiMahzarin BanajiMahzarin Rustum Banaji was born and raised in India, in the town of Secunderabad, where she attended St. Ann's High School. Her B.A. is from and her M.A. in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. In 1986, Banaji received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and was an NIH postdoctoral...
- Albert BanduraAlbert BanduraAlbert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...
- Canadian psychologist known for social learning theorySocial learning theory-Theory:Social learning theory is derived from the work of Albert Bandura which proposed that social learning occurred through four main stages of imitation:* close contact* imitation of superiors* understanding of concepts* role model behavior...
(or social cognitive theorySocial cognitive theorySocial cognitive theory, used in psychology, education, and communication, posits that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influences.-History:Social cognitive theory...
) and self efficacy - John BarghJohn BarghJohn A. Bargh is a distinguished social psychologist currently working at Yale University, where he has formed the Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation Laboratory...
- Robert A. BaronRobert A. BaronRobert A. Baron is Professor of Management and the Spears Chair of Entrepeneurship at Oklahoma State University's Spears School of Business. He studied psychology at City University of New York and received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1968...
- Daniel BatsonDaniel BatsonC. Daniel Batson is an American social psychologist. He holds both doctoral degrees in Theology and Psychology . He obtained his doctorate under John Darley and has taught at the University of Kansas...
- Martin BauerMartin BauerMartin W. Bauer is a social psychologist, currently Head of the department of the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics. He directs the MSc in Social and Public Communication at the Institute of Social Psychology...
- Roy BaumeisterRoy BaumeisterRoy F. Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and...
- Howard BeckerHoward S. BeckerHoward Saul Becker is an American sociologist who made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. In addition, Becker's book The Outsiders provided the foundations for...
- Ellen S. BerscheidEllen S. BerscheidEllen S. Berscheid is an American social psychologist. She is Regents Professor at University of Minnesota, where she received her PhD in 1965. Berscheid specializes in the research of interpersonal relationships...
- Michael BilligMichael BilligMichael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Working in contemporary social psychology, he trained in Bristol with Henri Tajfel as an experimental psychologist and helped design the so called minimal group experiments which were foundational to the social identity...
- Daryl BemDaryl BemDaryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change, and has carried out research on psi phenomena , group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation and personality theory and...
- proposed Self-perception theorySelf-perception theorySelf-perception theory is an account of attitude change developed by psychologist Daryl Bem. It asserts that people develop their attitudes by observing their behaviour and concluding what attitudes must have caused them. The theory is counterintuitive in nature, as the conventional wisdom is that...
of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory - Hart BlantonHart BlantonHart Blanton is an American social psychologist. He is now professor of psychology at University of Connecticut.-Research:...
- Gustav Le Bon
- Marilynn BrewerMarilynn BrewerMarilynn B. Brewer is a prominent American social psychologist. She is now professor emeritus of psychology at Ohio State University and currently resides at the University of New South Wales.-Research:...
- Roger BrownRoger Brown (psychologist)Roger William Brown , an American social psychologist, was born in Detroit.-Early Life and Education:...
- Peter BurkePeter BurkePeter Burke is a British historian and professor.He was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother . He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College...
- Created Identity control theoryIdentity control theoryIdentity control theory is a theory in sociology concerned with the development of personal identity. Created by Peter Burke, it focuses on the nature of peoples' identities and the relationship between their identities and their behavior within the realm of their social structure. The identities...
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- John CacioppoJohn CacioppoJohn T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He founded and is Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Director of the Arete Initiative of the Office of the Vice President for...
- Donald T. CampbellDonald T. CampbellDonald Thomas Campbell was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity.- Biography :...
- Merrill CarlsmithMerrill CarlsmithJ. Merrill Carlsmith was an American social psychologist perhaps best known for his collaboration with Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson in the creation and development of cognitive dissonance theory. He also worked extensively with Mark Lepper on the subject of attribution theory.-References:...
- Robert CialdiniRobert CialdiniRobert B. Cialdini is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University.He is best known for his popular book on persuasion and marketing, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Influence has sold over 2 million copies and has been translated into twenty-six...
- known for his research on influence processes - Ronald L. CohenRonald L. CohenRonald L. Cohen is a social psychologist whose research is focused on justice. He is a faculty member at Bennington College and the co-author or editor of several books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, including:...
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- Armindo Freitas-MagalhaesArmindo Freitas-MagalhãesArmindo Freitas-Magalhães, Ph.D., is a Portuguese psychologist working on the psychology of the human smile in the context of emotion and facial expression...
- Steven FeinSteven FeinSteven Fein is currently a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Steven has two daughters named Alina and Hannah....
- Leon Festinger - originator of both cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theorySocial comparison theorySocial comparison theory is a theory initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954. It explains how individuals evaluate their own opinions and desires by comparing themselves to others.- Basic framework :...
- Erich FrommErich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.-Life:Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am...
- Susan FiskeSusan FiskeSusan Tufts Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, and prejudice...
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- George GaskellGeorge GaskellGeorge Gaskell is a British Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Formerly Director of the Methodology Institute, he is now Deputy Director for Planning and Resources and a member of the LSE Council and Court of Governors...
- Bertram GawronskiBertram GawronskiBertram Gawronski is a Social Psychologist, Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology , and Professor of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.-Biography:...
- Daniel GilbertDaniel GilbertDaniel Todd Gilbert is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist who is known for his research on affective forecasting, with a special emphasis on cognitive biases such as the impact bias...
- Thomas GilovichThomas GilovichThomas D. Gilovich is a professor of psychology at Cornell University who has researched decision making and behavioral economics and has written popular books on said subjects. He has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, Lee Ross and Amos Tversky....
- psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics - Kenneth Gergen
- Brian G. GilmartinBrian G. GilmartinBrian G. Gilmartin is an American behavioral scientist, professor of psychology, and author of books and articles in the field of social psychology...
-- developed theory of love-shynessLove-shyness- The Definition Of Love-shyness:Love-shyness is a specific type of severe chronic shyness that impairs or prevents intimate relationships. It implies a degree of inhibition and reticence with potential partners that is sufficiently severe to preclude participation in courtship, marriage and family... - John GottmanJohn GottmanJohn Mordecai Gottman is a Ph.D. psychologist known for his work on marital stability and relationship analysis through scientific direct observations published in peer-reviewed literature...
- researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability - Anthony GreenwaldAnthony GreenwaldAnthony Greenwald is a Social Psychologist and, since 1986, Professor of Psychology at University of Washington.According to Greenwald’s biographical page from the University of Washington, in 1959 he received a B.A. from Yale University. In 1961, he received a M.A. from Harvard University, and in...
-- Creator of the Implicit Association TestImplicit Association TestThe Implicit Association Test is a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects in memory. The IAT was introduced in the scientific literature in 1998 by Anthony Greenwald, Debbie McGee, and Jordan...
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- Elaine HatfieldElaine HatfieldElaine Hatfield is a professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai'i. She is well known as a scholar who pioneered the scientific study of passionate love and sexual desire....
- Fritz HeiderFritz HeiderFritz Heider was an Austrian psychologist whose work was related to the Gestalt school. In 1958 he published The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which expanded upon his creation of balance theory and marked the starting point of attribution theory...
- Miles HewstoneMiles HewstoneMiles Hewstone is a leading social psychologist who is well-known for his work on social relations.He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1978 and then moved to the University of Oxford from which he obtained a D.Phil. in social psychology in 1981. He pursued post-doctoral work at the...
- E. Tory HigginsE. Tory HigginsEdward Tory Higgins is Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School. He is perhaps best known for developing Self-Discrepancy Theory.-Career:...
- Hilde HimmelweitHilde HimmelweitHildegard Therese Himmelweit, née Litthauer was a German social psychologist who had a major influence on the development of the discipline in Britain....
- Geert HofstedeGeert HofstedeGeert Hofstede, born as Gerard Hendrik Hofstede is an influential Dutch social psychologist and anthropologist. He is a well-known pioneer in his research of cross-cultural groups and organizations. He has played a major role in developing a systematic framework for assessing and differentiating...
- Carl HovlandCarl HovlandCarl Iver Hovland was a psychologist working primarily at Yale University and the US Army during World War II who studied attitude change and persuasion....
- Patrick Hunout
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- Irving JanisIrving JanisIrving Lester Janis was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions...
- well-known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthinkGroupthinkGroupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within groups of people. It is the mode of thinking that happens when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without...
" - Edward E. JonesEdward E. JonesEdward Ellsworth Jones , also known as "Ned" Jones, was an influential social psychologist who worked at Duke University for most of his career. He moved to Princeton University's Department of Psychology in 1977.-Biography:He earned his Ph.D...
- co-authored first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution errorFundamental attribution errorIn social psychology, the fundamental attribution error describes the tendency to over-value dispositional or personality-based explanations for the observed behaviors of others while under-valuing situational explanations for those behaviors...
; known for researching actor-observer biasActor-observer biasThe actor-observer asymmetry touches on the fundamental questions of how people gain access to their own and other people's minds and whether those modes of access are distinct.... - Sandra JovchelovitchSandra JovchelovitchSandra Jovchelovitch, from Porto Alegre, Brazil, is British social psychologist, currently senior lecturer and Director of the MSc program in Social and Cultural Psychology at the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, of which she serves as head since August 2007. Dr...
- Charles Hubbard JuddCharles Hubbard JuddCharles Hubbard Judd was an American educational psychologist who played an influential role in the formation of the discipline. Part of the larger scientific movement of this period, Judd pushed for the use of scientific methods to the understanding of education and, thus, wanted to limit the use...
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- Saul KassinSaul KassinSaul Kassin is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.- Biography :Dr. Saul Kassin is an American psychologist. He has participated in contributing to many books which have helped to explain different aspects in the field of psychology. He...
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate. He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology....
- Harold KelleyHarold KelleyHarold Kelley was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles...
- George KellyGeorge Kelly (psychologist)George Kelly or George Kelley was an American psychologist, therapist and educator. He was best known for developing Personal Construct Psychology.- Biography :...
- Herbert KelmanHerbert KelmanHerbert C. Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus at Harvard University. He was known for his work in the Middle East including a 1989 off-the-record meeting between members of the P.L.O. and Israeli politicians and academics in an effort to bring the two sides...
- Matthew Kim
- Ziva KundaZiva KundaZiva Kunda was a social psychologist well-known for her work in social cognition and motivated reasoning.-Early life:Kunda obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and was the author of the textbook .-Career:...
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- Michael C. LaFerney - utilizing Social Psychology principles in Nursing practice
- G. Daniel Lassiter
- Bibb LatanéBibb LatanéBibb Latané is a United States social psychologist. He is probably most famous for his work with John Darley on bystander intervention in emergencies, but he has also published many articles on social attraction in animals, social loafing in groups, and the spread of social influence in populations...
- initiated research on bystander intervention in emergencies (with John DarleyJohn DarleyJohn M. Darley is a distinguished American social psychologist, who has made contributions to the study of helping behaviour...
), social loafingSocial loafingIn the social psychology of groups, social loafing is the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone...
(with Kip Williams), and dynamic social impact theory (with Andrzej Nowak (psychologist)Andrzej Nowak (psychologist)Andrzej Nowak – Polish psychologist, one of the founders of dynamical social psychology. He is a pioneer in applying computer simulations in social sciences....
). - Gustave Le BonGustave Le BonGustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist...
- Mark LepperMark LepperMark R. Lepper is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of psychology at Stanford University, and a leading theorist in social psychology...
- Becca LevyBecca LevyBecca R. Levy is an associate professor of epidemiology and social psychology at Yale University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of social gerontology and psychology of aging. She has conducted foundational research on how self-stereotypes operate and how older individuals are...
- Kurt LewinKurt LewinKurt Zadek Lewin was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology....
- Often called "the father of social psychology"; one of first researchers to study group dynamicsGroup dynamicsGroup dynamics refers to a system of behaviors and psychological processes that occur within a social group , or between social groups...
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- Hazel Rose MarkusHazel Rose MarkusHazel Markus is a prominent social psychologist. In 1975, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan, and later became one of the university’s faculty members. During her time at the University of Michigan, she was a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research...
- David McClellandDavid McClellandDavid C. McClelland was an American psychological theorist. Noted for his work on need theory, he published a number of works from the 1950s until the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test and its descendants...
- Joseph E. McGrathJoseph E. McGrathJoseph E. McGrath was a social psychologist, known for his work on small groups, time, stress, and research methods and for his excellence in mentoring graduate students.- Biography :...
- group dynamics researcher - George Herbert MeadGeorge Herbert MeadGeorge Herbert Mead was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and the American sociological tradition in general.-...
- American philosopher (pragmatistPragmatismPragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...
), sociologist, and psychologistPsychologistPsychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
; a founder of social psychology; founder of symbolic interactionismSymbolic interactionismSymbolic Interaction, also known as interactionism, is a sociological theory that places emphasis on micro-scale social interaction to provide subjective meaning in human behavior, the social process and pragmatism.-History:... - Stanley MilgramStanley MilgramStanley Milgram was an American social psychologist most notable for his controversial study known as the Milgram Experiment. The study was conducted in the 1960s during Milgram's professorship at Yale...
- performed famous experimentMilgram experimentThe Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that...
that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures - Walter MischelWalter MischelWalter Mischel is an American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University.-Early life:...
- among the first to promote a situationist view of personality - Abraham MolesAbraham MolesAbraham Moles was an engineer of electrical engineering and acoustics, and a doctor of physics and philosophy. He was one of the first researchers to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory....
, one of the first to establish and analyze links between aestheticsAestheticsAesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
and information theoryInformation theoryInformation theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and... - Serge MoscoviciSerge MoscoviciSerge Moscovici is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale , which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris...
- Gordon MoskowitzGordon MoskowitzGordon Blaine Moskowitz is a social psychologist working in the field of social cognition. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University...
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- Ian Parker (psychologist)Ian Parker (psychologist)Ian Parker is a British psychologist who has been a principal exponent of three quite diverse critical traditions inside the discipline...
- Richard E. PettyRichard E. PettyRichard E. Petty is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University.He received his Ph. D. in Social Psychology from Ohio State in 1977. After graduation Richard E. Petty went on to start his academic career as the Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University...
- Anthony PratkanisAnthony PratkanisAnthony R. Pratkanis is Professor of Psychology at the University of California in Santa Cruz, California. Pratkanis is an expert on economic fraud crimes, terrorist and dictator propaganda, marketing and consumer behavior, and subliminal persuasion.-Career:...
- Tom PyszczynskiTom PyszczynskiTom Pyszczynski is an American Social Psychologist.He is notable, together with Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon, for founding the field of Terror Management Theory.-References:...
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- Wilhelm ReichWilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
, mass psychology. - Steve ReicherSteve ReicherStephen D Reicher is Professor of Social Psychology and former Head of the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews....
- Robert RosenthalRobert Rosenthal (psychologist)Robert Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. His interests include self-fulfilling prophecies, which he explored in a well-known study of the Pygmalion Effect: the effect of teachers' expectations on students.Rosenthal was born in Giessen,...
- Pygmalion effectPygmalion effectThe Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform... - Lee RossLee RossLee D. Ross is the Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, and an influential social psychologist who has studied attribution theory, attributional biases, decision making and conflict resolution, often with longtime collaborator Mark Lepper...
- performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution errorFundamental attribution errorIn social psychology, the fundamental attribution error describes the tendency to over-value dispositional or personality-based explanations for the observed behaviors of others while under-valuing situational explanations for those behaviors... - Zick RubinZick RubinIsaac Michael "Zick" Rubin is an American social psychologist, lawyer, and author. He is "widely credited as the author of the first empirical measurement of love," for his work distinguishing feelings of like from feelings of love via Rubin's Scales of Liking and Loving...
, author of the first empirical measurement of love
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- Stanley Schachter
- Gunter SchmidtGunter SchmidtGunter Schmidt is a German sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist.Schmidt was director of the section for sexual research in the clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf...
- Norbert SchwarzNorbert SchwarzNorbert Schwarz is the Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor of Psychology in the Social Psychology program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He also has appointments as Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, Research Professor in the Program in Survey Methodology and...
- known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology - Martin SeligmanMartin SeligmanMartin E. P. "Marty" Seligman is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. His theory of "learned helplessness" is widely respected among scientific psychologists....
- Muzafer SherifMuzafer SherifMuzafer Sherif was one of the founders of social psychology...
- Boris SidisBoris SidisBoris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D. was a Ukrainian Jewish psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of the child prodigy William James Sidis...
- groundbreaking work on the psychology of suggestion, multiple personality disorder, psychopathology, and genius - Volkmar SiguschVolkmar SiguschVolkmar Sigusch is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main....
- Linda SkitkaLinda SkitkaLinda J. Skitka is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Skitka's research bridges a number of areas of inquiry including social, political, and moral psychology...
- Mark SnyderMark SnyderMark Snyder is the former head coach of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team in Huntington, West Virginia. He is currently the defensive coordinator at the University of South Florida...
- prominent for his novel work on the self-monitoring processSelf monitoringSelf-monitoring is a theory that deals with the phenomena of expressive controls. Human beings generally differ in substantial ways in their abilities and desires to engage in expressive controls... - Claude SteeleClaude SteeleClaude Mason Steele is an American social psychologist and currently the I. James Quillen Dean for the School of Education at Stanford University, as well as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Stanford...
- renowned for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat; also known for introducing self-affirmation theory - Walter Stephan - best known for developing the integrated threat theory, which details the role perceived threat has on the development of prejudice.
- William SwannWilliam SwannWilliam B. Swann is a professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is primarily known for his work on identity, self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationships, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception and...
- best known for developing self-verification theory
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- Henri TajfelHenri TajfelHenri Tajfel was a British social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.-Early life in Poland:Tajfel grew up in Poland...
- Gabriel TardeGabriel TardeJean-Gabriel De Tarde or Gabriel Tarde in short French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals , the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation.- Theory :Among the concepts...
- Carol TavrisCarol TavrisCarol Anne Tavris is an American social psychologist and author. She received a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and has taught psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the New School for Social Research...
- Shelley TaylorShelley TaylorShelley Elizabeth Taylor is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and was formerly on the faculty at Harvard University...
- John ThibautJohn ThibautJohn Thibaut was a social psychologist, one of the last graduate students of Kurt Lewin. He spent a number of years as a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and was the first editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology....
- first editor of JESP, known for Interdependence Theory from "The Social Psychology of Groups" - Norman TriplettNorman TriplettNorman Triplett was a psychologist at Indiana University. In 1898, he wrote what is now recognized as the first published study in the field of social psychology . His experiment was on the social facilitation effect. Triplett noticed that cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the...
- widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation - Bruce TuckmanBruce TuckmanBruce Wayne Tuckman is an American Psychologist, who has carried out research into the theory of group dynamics. In 1965, he published one of his theories called "Tuckman's Stages". In 1977, he added a fifth stage named Adjourning....
- John C. Turner
- Amos TverskyAmos TverskyAmos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement...
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- Daniel WegnerDaniel WegnerDaniel M. Wegner is an American social psychologist. He is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
- Kipling WilliamsKipling WilliamsKipling D. Williams is a social psychologist in the Department of Psychological Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1981 with his Ph.D in Social...
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- Timothy WilsonTimothy WilsonTimothy D. Wilson is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and a researcher of self-knowledge and affective forecasting.-Career:...
- Robert S. WyerRobert S. WyerRobert S. Wyer, Jr. is a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Colorado...
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- Robert ZajoncRobert ZajoncRobert Bolesław Zajonc was a Polish-born American social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes.-Mere Exposure Effect:...
- first academic to study the mere exposure effect - Mark ZannaMark ZannaMark Zanna, Ph.D. , FRSC, is a social psychologist at the University of Waterloo. He is well-known for his work on attitudes and intergroup relations.-Research:...
- Philip ZimbardoPhilip ZimbardoPhilip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project...
- well-known for conducting the Stanford prison experimentStanford prison experimentThe Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14th-20th, 1971, by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University...
See also: list of psychologists, list of sociologists