Psychologists Psychologists Alexander Sutherland Neill ( October 17, 1883 - September 23, 1973) was a Scottish educationalist recognised as one of the leading pioneers in education. He is most famous and admired for recommending personal freedom for children, and has been correspondingly attacked as the instigator of "permissiveness" by his critics. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. S. Neill"
Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925) is a Canadian psychologist most famous for his work on social learning theory (or Social Cognitivism) and self efficacy. He is particularly noted for the Bobo doll experiment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Bandura"
Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is an American cognitive-behavioral therapist who in 1955 developed rational-emotive therapy, an approach to psychotherapy holding that inappropriate negative emotions arise not from events themselves, but rather from people's irrational interpretations of these events (the ABC theory of emotions). Ellis founded and recently functioned as the president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute until its board removed him from all official functions in September 2005. Ellis currently works independently of his former institute while endeavoring to regain his position. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Ellis"
Albert Mehrabian (currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UCLA), has become known best by his publications on the relative importance of verbal and nonverbal messages. His findings on inconsistent messages of feelings and attitudes have been quoted throughout Human communication Seminars worldwide, and have also become known as the 7%-38%-55% Rule. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Mehrabian"
Albert Rothenberg coined the term 'Janusian Thinking' to refer to the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts concurrently, a capacity Rothenberg believed associated with creativity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Rothenberg"
Alexander Romanovich Luria Александр Романович Лурия ( July 16, 1902- 1977) was a famous Russian neuropsychologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Luria"
Alfred Adler ( February 7 1870 – May 28 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Adler" The text you are reading is from shortopedia Psychologists
Alice Miller (b. 1923) is a psychologist noted for her work in child development and its relationship to society. She is a strong anti- Freudianist and belongs to the anti-pedagogy school, holding that most depressions and other mental illnesses are caused by methods commonly used in childrearing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Miller"
Amos Tversky ( March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was 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. With Kahneman, he originated prospect theory to explain irrational human economic choices. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1965, and later taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, before moving to Stanford University. In 1984 he was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amos Tversky"
Anatol Rapoport (born May 22 1911) is a Russian-born American Jewish, mathematical psychologist. He is one of the founders of the General systems theory. He also contributed to Mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of Social interaction and Stochastic models of contagion. He combined his mathematical expertise with psychological insights to the study of Game theory and semantics. Rapoport extended these understandings into studies of psychological conflict, dealing with nuclear disarmament and international politics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatol Rapoport"
Anna Freud ( December 3, 1895, Vienna, Austria - October 9, 1982, London, England), the daughter of Sigmund Freud ( 1856- 1939) and his wife Martha Bernays ( 1861- 1951), was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst, and pioneer of child psychoanalysis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Freud"
Dr. Arthur Janov is the inventor of Primal therapy and directs a Primal Center in Venice, California, USA. He is a licensed psychologist in that state. He is the author of ten books, including The Primal Scream. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Janov"
Arthur Jensen is a prominent educational psychologist, known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another. Jensen is a leading authority on IQ, and his work on testing bias is canonical. He is a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that concludes genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality traits. He is the author of over 400 scientific papers published in refereed journals. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Jensen"
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is a professor of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi"
Boris Sidis ( October 12, 1867 - October 24, 1923). Psychologist, Psychiatrist, and "Psychopathologist". ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Sidis"
Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio for nearly two decades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruce Levine"
Burrhus Frederic Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. He conducted pioneering work on experimental psychology and advocated behaviorism, which seeks to understand behavior as a function of environmental histories of reinforcement. He also wrote a number of controversial works in which he proposed the widespread use of psychological behavior modification techniques (primarily operant conditioning) in order to improve society and increase human happiness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burrhus Frederic Skinner"
C. Lloyd Morgan (Conwy Lloyd Morgan) ( 6 February 1852 - 6 March 1936) was a British psychologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. Lloyd Morgan"
Carl Iver Hovland ( 1912- 1961) was a psychologist working primarily at Yale University and the US Army during World War II who studied attitude change and persuasion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Hovland"
Carl Gustav Jung ( July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) ( IPA: ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Jung"
Carl Georg Lange ( 1834 - 1900) was a Danish physician and psychologist. He and William James independently developed the James-Lange theory of emotion, which posits that all emotions are developed from, and can be reduced to, physiological reactions to stimuli. Unlike James, Lange specifically stated that vasomotor changes are emotions. Lange also noted the psychotropic effects of lithium, although his work in this area was forgotten and independently rediscovered much later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Lange" The article you are reading is from www.shortopedia.com
Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, was the founder of the humanist approach to psychology. He was also instrumental in the development of non-directive psychotherapy, which he initially termed Client-Centered Therapy. He later renamed it as the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) to reflect that his theories were meant to apply to all interactions between people, not just to those between therapist and client. Today PCA is also called person-centered psychotherapy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Rogers"
Dr Carmel Hill is a qualified psychologist on the Australian television series Big Brother. She has worked with the programme from the initial season, and is responsible for the housemates emotional and psychological well being. Hill frequently comments on the social economics of the house and is a key figure in creating a varied and interesting mix of housemates. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carmel Hill"
Charles E. Osgood is a distinguished psychologist who developed a technique for measurement of connotative meaning of concepts known as the semantic differential. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles E. Osgood"
Charles Edward Spearman ( september 10 1863 - september 7 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on models for human intelligence, including discovering that disparate cognitive test scores reflect a single general factor and coining the term g factor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Spearman"
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