List of Jewish American psychologists
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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
- Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
- Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
- Irving Janis, social psychologist
- Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2002)
- Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
- 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
