A Pathfinder for Most Influential People in
Psychology
In 2002, The Review of General Psychology printed an
article ranking the top psychologists of the 20th century .
For the full text of the article, click here. For the list of
the 100 Most Eminent/Influential Psychologists of the
Twentieth Century, click here
Websites
ABC-CLIO Ebooks
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Psychology
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Website Resources
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2.
Archives of the History of American Psychology: APA Archives (U. of Akron) founded by John Popplestone.
Encyclopedia of Psychology: Directory of biographies on many influential psychologists including Skinner, Maslow,
Pavlov, Watson, Bandura, Adler, etc.
3. History of Psychology Archives: biographies and bibliographies created through Muskingum College.
4. Human Intelligence Map: created by psychology department at Indiana University, lists psychologists in
chronological order. Biographies include influence and explanations of theories and achievements.
5. Psych.Net.UK: directory of biographies of famous psychologists and philosophers.
6. Psychology Biographies at ALLPSYCH: short biographies for many prominent figures in the history of psychology.
7. World of Biography: detailed biographies of famous psychologists organized in alpha order.
8. Yahoo Directory of Famous Psychologists: lists of biographical information on many prominent psychologists. Does
list Wikipedia entries. For Wikipedia entries scroll down to external links and references for the most resources.
The actual Wikipedia entry itself does not qualify as an academic source.
9. Social Psychology Network: use the search function in the middle of the web page, enter the name of the
psychologist (example: “Albert Bandura”) and choose people entries. Look carefully there are a lot of Wikipedia
entries as well as academic biographies.
10. Psychology Encyclopedia: power by J. Rank.org. Use search box to enter name of psychologist. Put the name in
quotes to narrow the search to a specific person.
ABC-CLIO Ebooks
To open the books, remember to login to ABC-CLIO after you have clicked on the title of the book. Every book
can be searched by keywords. MLA Citations for these books are already built into ABC-CLIO.
1. Consciousness: A Guide to the Debates
2. Infancy in America: An Encyclopedia
3. Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook
4. Parenthood in America: An Encyclopedia
5. Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia
6. Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia
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The 100 Most Famous Psychologists
1. B.F. Skinner
2. Jean Piaget
3. Sigmund Freud
4. Albert Bandura
5. Leon Festinger
6. Carl R. Rogers
7. Stanley Schachter
8. Neal E. Miller
9. Edward Thorndike
10. A. H. Maslow
11. Gordon W. Allport
12. Erik H. Erikson
13. Hans J. Eysenck
14. William James
15. David C. McClelland
16. Raymond B. Cattell
17. John B. Watson
18. Kurt Lewin
19. Donald O. Hebb
20. George A. Miller
21. Clark L. Hull
22. Jerome Kagan
23. Carl G. Jung
24. Ivan P. Pavlov
25. Walter Mischel
26. Harry F. Harlow
27. J. P. Guilford
28. Jerome S. Bruner
29. Ernest R. Hilgard
30. Lawrence Kohlberg
31. Martin E.P. Seligman
32. Ulric Neisser
33. Donald T. Campbell
34. Roger Brown
35. R. B. Zajonc
36. Endel Tulving
37. Herbert A. Simon
38. Noam Chomsky
39. Edward E. Jones
40. Charles E. Osgood
41. Solomon E. Asch
42. Gordon H. Bower
43. Harold H. Kelley
44. Roger W. Sperry
45. Edward C. Tolman
46. Stanley Milgram
47. Arthur R. Jensen
48. Lee J. Cronbach
49. John Bowlby
50. Wolfgang Köhler
51. David Wechsler
52. S. S. Stevens
53. Joseph Wolpe
54. D. E. Broadbent
55. Roger N. Shepard
56. Michael I. Posner
57. Theodore M. Newcomb
58. Elizabeth F. Loftus
59. Paul Ekman
60. Robert J. Sternberg
61. Karl S. Lashley
62. Kenneth Spence
63. Morton Deutsch
64. Julian B. Rotter
65. Konrad Lorenz
66. Benton Underwood
67. Alfred Adler
68. Michael Rutter
69. Alexander R. Luria
70. Eleanor E. Maccoby
71. Robert Plomin
72.5.* G. Stanley Hall
72.5. Lewis M. Terman
74.5.* Eleanor J. Gibson
74.5. Paul E. Meehl
76. Leonard Berkowitz
77. William K. Estes
78. Eliot Aronson
79. Irving L. Janis
80. Richard S. Lazarus
81. W. Gary Cannon
82. Allen L. Edwards
83. Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
84. Robert Rosenthal
85. Milton Rokeach
88.5.* John Garcia
88.5. James J. Gibson
88.5. David Rumelhart
88.5. L. L. Thurston
88.5. Margaret Washburn
88.5. Robert Woodworth
93.5.* Edwin G. Boring
93.5. John Dewey
93.5. Amos Tversky
93.5. Wilhelm Wundt
96. Herman A. Witkin
97. Mary D. Ainsworth
98. Orval Hobart Mowrer
99. Anna Freud