List of Jewish American psychologists
This is a list of famous Jewish psychologists. For other famous people of the Jewish faith, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
- Elliot Aronson
- Solomon Asch, gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
- Richard Bandler, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
- Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
- Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
- Cary Cooper, organizational psychologist
- Paul Ekman, facial expressions
- Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
- Leon Festinger, theory of cognitive dissonance
- Reuven Feuerstein
- Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908-1958), co-editor (with Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford) of The Authoritarian Personality (Polish-born)
- Erich Fromm, psychologist and humanistic philosopher
- Carol Gilligan, psychologist and ethicist
- Daniel Goleman, expert in emotional intelligence
- Irving Gottesman, behavioral genetics
- John Gottman, marriage and relationships
- Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
- Frederick Irving Herzberg, two-factor theory of job satisfaction
- Seymour Itzkoff, educational psychologist
- Irving Janis, social psychologist
- Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of primal therapy
- Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Amos Tversky winner (2002)
- Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
- Kurt Lewin, motivational psychologist (field theory)
- Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
- Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, founder of Recovery International
- Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
- Rivka Bertisch Meir, psychologist and psychotherapist
- Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
- Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
- Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
- Fritz Perls, gestalt therapy
- Steven Pinker, psychologist and writer
- Renee Rabinowitz, psychologist and lawyer
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
- Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
- David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
- Lee Ross, fundamental attribution error
- Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
- Shalom H. Schwartz, value studies
- Francine Shapiro, creator of EMDR therapy
- Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
- Martin Seligman, positive psychologist
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
- Hyman Spotnitz, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
- Robert Sternberg, intelligence and creativity
- Amos Tversky, prospect theory
- David Wechsler, intelligence testing
- George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
- Bernard Weiner, attribution theory
- Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist
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