- List of social psychologists
The following is a list of
academician s, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.A
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Robert P. Abelson
*Lauren Alloy
* Floyd Allport
*Gordon Allport
*Irwin Altman
*Norman H. Anderson
* Michael Argyle
*Elliot Aronson
*Solomon Asch
*Berit Ås B
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Mahzarin Banaji - co-creator of theImplicit Association Test along with Anthony Greenwald
*Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known forsocial learning theory (orsocial cognitive theory ) andself efficacy
*John Bargh
*Robert A. Baron
*Daniel Batson
*Martin Bauer
*Roy Baumeister
*Howard Becker
*Ellen S. Berscheid
*Michael Billig
*Daryl Bem - proposedSelf-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger'scognitive dissonance theory
*Gustav Le Bon
*Marilynn Brewer
* Roger BrownC
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John Cacioppo
*Donald T. Campbell
*Merrill Carlsmith
*Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
*Ronald L. Cohen
*Charles Horton Cooley D
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James M. Dabbs, Jr.
*John Darley
*Paul G. Davies
*Carol Dweck E
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Derek Edwards
*Phoebe C. Ellsworth F
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Armindo Freitas-Magalhaes
*Steven Fein
*Leon Festinger - originator of bothcognitive dissonance theory andsocial comparison theory
*Erich Fromm G
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George Gaskell
*Bertram Gawronski
*Daniel Gilbert
*Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure inbehavioral economics
*Kenneth Gergen
*Brian G. Gilmartin -- developed theory oflove-shyness
*John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability
*Anthony Greenwald -- Co-creator of theImplicit Association Test H
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Rom Harré
*Elaine Hatfield
*Fritz Heider
*Miles Hewstone
*E. Tory Higgins
*Hilde Himmelweit
*Carl Hovland
*Caroline Howarth I
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Michael Inzlicht J
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Irving Janis - well-known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink "
*Blair Jarvis - foundedEmpirisoft in 1998, developingMediaLab andDirectRT software for conducting computerized social psychology experiments.
*Edward E. Jones - co-authored first paper on what was later calledfundamental attribution error ; known for researchingactor-observer bias
*Sandra Jovchelovitch
*Charles Hubbard Judd K
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Saul Kassin
*Daniel Kahneman
*Harold Kelley
* George Kelly
*Herbert Kelman
*Ziva Kunda L
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Bibb Latané - initiated research onbystander intervention in emergencies (withJohn Darley ),social loafing (withKip Williams ), anddynamic 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 studygroup dynamics andorganizational development M
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Hazel Rose Markus
*David McClelland
*George Herbert Mead - Americanphilosopher (pragmatist),sociologist , andpsychologist ; a founder of social psychology; founder ofsymbolic 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 betweenaesthetics andinformation theory
*Serge Moscovici
*Gordon Moskowitz N
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Richard Nisbett O
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Richard Ofshe
*Tom Ostrom P
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Ian Parker (psychologist)
*Richard E. Petty
*Anthony Pratkanis
*Tom Pyszczynski Q
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Wilhelm Reich ,mass psychology .
*Steve Reicher
* Robert Rosenthal -Pygmalion effect
*Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on thefundamental attribution error *
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 theoryT
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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 V
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Daniel Wegner
*Kipling Williams
*Glenn D Wilson
*Timothy Wilson X
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Robert Zajonc - first academic to study themere exposure effect
*Mark Zanna
*Philip Zimbardo - well-known for conducting theStanford prison experiment "See also":
list of psychologists ,list of sociologists
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