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William James (January 11, 1842, New York – August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.
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John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He is known for having claimed that he could take any 12 healthy infants and, by applying behavioral techniques, create whatever kind of person he desired. He also wrote about childrearing, worked in advertising and conducted the controversial Little Albert experiment. Later he went on from psychology to become a popular author on child rearing, and an acclaimed contributor to the advertising industry.
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The Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly irrational risk management behavior in human beings.
He is famous for work done in collaboration with Amos Tversky and others in establishing a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory.
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of sexual desire, repression, dreams, and the unconscious mind.
He is known for popular notions like defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism, as well as his impact on literature, film, Marxist and feminist theories, literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.
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Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy.
Jung studied Eastern vs. Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, literature and the arts, while emphasizing the importance of balancing science, logic spirituality, and the unconscious mind.
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B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist and author. He conducted pioneering work on experimental psychology and advocated behaviorism, the study of environmental histories of experiencing consequences. He also proposed the widespread use of psychological behavior modification techniques, primarily operant conditioning, in order to improve society and increase human happiness; and as a form of social engineering.
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Jean Piaget was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and its impact on constructivism-based pedagogy.
Piaget served as professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1929 to 1975 and is best known for reorganizing cognitive development theory into a series of stages, expanding on earlier work from James Mark Baldwin: four levels of development corresponding roughly to (1) infancy, (2) pre-school, (3) childhood, and (4) adolescence.
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Karen Horney [horn-eye], née Danielsen was a German Freudian psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology. As such, she is often classified as "neo-Freudian".
From her experiences as a psychiatrist, Horney named ten patterns of neurotic needs according to what she called coping strategies.
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