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Abram Amsel
Abram Amsel (1922–2006) was a Canadian experimental psychologist known for his theory of frustrative nonreward, who taught for fifty years and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
Albert Michotte
Albert Michotte (1881–1965) was a Belgian experimental psychologist at the Catholic University of Louvain whose launching-effect experiments showed that causality is directly perceived rather than inferred.
Alexandra Horowitz
Alexandra Horowitz is an American cognitive scientist who studies dog cognition, leads the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, and wrote the bestseller Inside of a Dog.
Allan R. Wagner
Allan R. Wagner (1934–2018) was an American experimental psychologist who spent his career at Yale and is best known for the Rescorla–Wagner model of Pavlovian conditioning.
Arthur Melton
Arthur Weever Melton (1906–1978) was an American experimental psychologist who led the University of Missouri psychology department from 1932 and edited the Journal of Experimental Psychology for twelve years.
Arthur R. Jensen
Arthur R. Jensen was an American professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1969 heritability claims made him one of psychology's most contested figures.
Austin H. Riesen
Austin H. Riesen (1913–1996) was an American comparative psychologist and psychobiologist who pioneered sensory deprivation research, showing how early experience shapes development; he taught at UC Riverside and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner, born Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904–1990), was an American psychologist at Harvard who founded radical behaviorism and was ranked the most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.
Barbara Dosher
Barbara Dosher is an experimental psychologist and UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences who studies memory, attention, and perceptual learning; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin S. Bloom (1913–1999) was an American educational psychologist at the University of Chicago who led the creation of Bloom's taxonomy, developed mastery learning, and framed the 2 sigma problem.
Benton J. Underwood
Benton J. Underwood (1915–1994) was an American experimental psychologist at Northwestern University who led postwar research on verbal learning and memory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
C. Lloyd Morgan
C. Lloyd Morgan, born Conwy Lloyd Morgan, was a British psychologist and zoologist, a pioneer of comparative psychology best known for Morgan's canon, his 1894 principle of animal behavior interpretation.
Calvin Perry Stone
Calvin Perry Stone (1892–1954) was an American experimental psychologist at Stanford University, known for research on albino rat behavior and president of the American Psychological Association in 1941.
Carl Seashore
Carl Seashore, born Carl Emil Sjöstrand, was a Swedish-born American psychologist at the University of Iowa who founded the scientific psychology of music and created the Seashore Measures of Musical Talent.
Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist, and musicologist, a founder of experimental psychology known for Tonpsychologie and the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology.
Charles E. Osgood
Charles E. Osgood (1916–1991) was an American psychologist at the University of Illinois who developed the semantic differential, a technique for measuring attitudes and meaning across cultures.
Charles Spearman
Charles Spearman (1863–1945) was a British psychologist who founded the statistical study of human intelligence, originated factor analysis, proposed the g theory of general intelligence, and led the London school at University College London.
Clark L. Hull
Clark L. Hull was an American psychologist at Yale University who built a mathematical theory of learning and motivation based on drive reduction, dominating American experimental psychology in the 1930s and 1940s.
Clyde Coombs
Clyde Coombs (1912–1988) was an American mathematical psychologist at the University of Michigan known for pioneering multidimensional scaling, qualitative measurement, and the ideal point model of preference.
Curt Richter
Curt Richter (1894–1988) was an American psychobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who showed that behavior serves bodily regulation and demonstrated the endogenous 24-hour biological clock.
Daniel Goldstein
Daniel Goldstein is a cognitive psychologist known for fast-and-frugal heuristics and the 2003 Science study "Do Defaults Save Lives?" on organ-donation defaults, now at Microsoft Research in New York City.
Daniel Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, musician, and record producer at McGill University, best known for the bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music.
Daniel S. Lehrman
Daniel S. Lehrman (1919–1972) was an American comparative psychologist and behavioral endocrinologist known for ring dove experiments, a 1953 critique of Konrad Lorenz, and founding Rutgers's Institute of Animal Behavior.
Daphne Bavelier
Daphne Bavelier, born 1966 in France, is a French cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Geneva known for research showing action video games improve visual attention.
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer is an American mathematical psychologist and cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan, known for the EPIC architecture of human multitasking and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
David M. Green
David M. Green (1932–2022) was an American psychologist in psychological acoustics who helped develop signal detection theory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Diana Reiss
Diana Reiss is an American cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, known for demonstrating mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins.
Donald Broadbent
Donald Broadbent (1926–1993) was a British experimental psychologist who pioneered the information-processing approach to attention, best known for his filter theory and the 1958 book Perception and Communication.
Donald O. Hebb
Donald O. Hebb (1904–1985) was a Canadian psychologist and professor at McGill University, called the father of neuropsychology, best known for his 1949 book The Organization of Behavior.
Dorothea Jameson
Dorothea Jameson (1920–1998) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with her husband and collaborator Leo Hurvich, built the first comprehensive quantitative model of color vision at the University of Pennsylvania.