List of social psychologists.html

The following is a list of academicians, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Mahzarin Banaji - co-creator of the Implicit Association Test along with Anthony Greenwald
Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or social cognitive theory) and self efficacy
John Bargh
Robert A. Baron
Daniel Batson
Martin Bauer
Roy Baumeister
Howard Becker
Ellen S. Berscheid
Michael Billig
Daryl Bem - proposed Self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
Gustav Le Bon
Marilynn Brewer
Roger Brown

C

John Cacioppo
Donald T. Campbell
Merrill Carlsmith
Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
Ronald L. Cohen
Charles Horton Cooley

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Armindo Freitas-Magalhaes
Steven Fein
Leon Festinger - originator of both cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
Erich Fromm

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George Gaskell
Bertram Gawronski
Daniel Gilbert
Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
Kenneth Gergen
Brian G. Gilmartin -- developed theory of love-shyness
John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability
Anthony Greenwald-- Co-creator of the Implicit Association Test

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Michael Inzlicht

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Irving Janis - well-known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink"
Blair Jarvis - founded Empirisoft in 1998, developing MediaLab and DirectRT software for conducting computerized social psychology experiments.
Edward E. Jones - co-authored first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution error; known for researching actor-observer bias
Sandra Jovchelovitch
Charles Hubbard Judd

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Bibb Latané - initiated research on bystander intervention in emergencies (with John Darley), social loafing (with Kip Williams), and dynamic social impact theory (with Andrzej Nowak).
Gustave Le Bon
Mark Lepper
Kurt Lewin - Often called "the father of social psychology"; one of first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development

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Hazel Rose Markus
David McClelland
George Herbert Mead - American philosopher (pragmatist), sociologist, and psychologist; a founder of social psychology; founder of symbolic interactionism
Stanley Milgram - performed famous experiment that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures
Walter Mischel - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality
Abraham Moles, one of the first to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory
Serge Moscovici
Gordon Moskowitz

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Richard Nisbett

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Wilhelm Reich, mass psychology.
Steve Reicher
Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect
Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error

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Stanley Schachter
Gunter Schmidt
Norbert Schwarz - known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology
Martin Seligman
Muzafer Sherif
Boris Sidis - groundbreaking work on the psychology of suggestion, multiple personality disorder, psychopathology, and genius
Volkmar Sigusch
Mark Snyder - prominent for his novel work on the self-monitoring process
Claude Steele - renowned for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat; also known for introducing self-affirmation theory
William Swann - best known for developing self-verification theory

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Henri Tajfel
Gabriel Tarde
Carol Tavris
Shelley Taylor
Norman Triplett - widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation
Bruce Tuckman
Amos Tversky