List of Jewish American psychologists

List of Jewish American psychologists

"This is a list of famous Jewish American Psychologists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

*Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
*Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
*Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
*Paul Ekman, facial expressions
*Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
*Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
*Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
*Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
*Edith S. L. Gomberg, psychologist & substance-abuse researcher
*Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
*Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
*Irving Janis, social psychologist
*Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of Primal Therapy
*Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2002)
*Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
*Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
*Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, and founder of Recovery, Inc.
*Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
*Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
*Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
*Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
*Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
*Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
*Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
*Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
*Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
*David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
*Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
*Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
*Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
*Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
*Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
*David Wechsler, intelligence testing
*George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
*Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist


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