List of social psychologists
The following is a list of academicians, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.
A
- Lauren Alloy
- Floyd Allport
- Gordon Allport
- Irwin Altman
- Craig A. Anderson
- Norman H. Anderson
- Michael Argyle
- Elliot Aronson
- Solomon Asch
- Berit Ås
B
- Mahzarin Banaji
- Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or social cognitive theory) and self efficacy
- John Bargh
- Robert A. Baron
- Daniel Batson
- Martin Bauer
- Roy Baumeister
- Howard Becker
- Ellen S. Berscheid
- Michael Billig
- Daryl Bem - proposed Self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
- Hart Blanton
- Marilynn Brewer
- Roger Brown
- Peter Burke - Created Identity control theory
- Brad Bushman
C
- John Cacioppo
- Donald T. Campbell
- Merrill Carlsmith
- Nicholas Christenfeld
- Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
- Ronald L. Cohen
- Charles Horton Cooley
- William Crano
- Stuart W. Cook
D
E
F
- Steven Fein
- Leon Festinger - originator of both cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
- Erich Fromm
- Susan Fiske
G
- Laszlo Garai—developed theory of social identity as mediating factor.[1]
- George Gaskell
- Bertram Gawronski
- Daniel Gilbert
- Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
- Kenneth Gergen
- Erving Goffman
- John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability
- Anthony Greenwald—Creator of the Implicit Association Test
H
- Rom Harré
- Elaine Hatfield
- Fritz Heider
- Miles Hewstone
- E. Tory Higgins
- Hilde Himmelweit
- Geert Hofstede
- Michael Hogg—Social Identity Theory
- Carl Hovland
I
J
- Irving Janis - well known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink"
- Edward E. Jones - co-authored first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution error; known for researching actor-observer bias
- Sandra Jovchelovitch
- Charles Hubbard Judd
K
L
- Bibb Latané - initiated research on bystander intervention in emergencies (with John Darley), social loafing (with Kip Williams), and Dynamic Social Impact Theory (with Andrzej Nowak (psychologist)).
- Gustave Le Bon
- Mark Lepper
- Becca Levy
- Kurt Lewin - Often called "the father of social psychology"; one of first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development
M
- Hazel Rose Markus
- David McClelland
- Joseph E. McGrath- group dynamics researcher
- George Herbert Mead - American philosopher (pragmatist), sociologist, and psychologist; a founder of social psychology; founder of symbolic 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 between aesthetics and information theory
- Serge Moscovici
- Gordon Moskowitz
N
- Theodore Newcomb
- Richard Nisbett
- Andrzej Nowak
O
P
R
- Wilhelm Reich, mass psychology.
- Steve Reicher
- Harry Reis
- Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect
- Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error
- Zick Rubin, author of the first empirical measurement of love
S
- 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
- Linda Skitka
- Diederik Stapel - founder of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, later suspended from Tilburg University for fabricating and manipulating data.
- 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 theory
- Claire Selltiz
T
- Henri Tajfel
- Gabriel Tarde
- Carol Tavris
- Shelley Taylor
- John Thibaut - first editor of JESP, known for Interdependence Theory from "The Social Psychology of Groups"
- Norman Triplett - widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation
- Bruce Tuckman
- John C. Turner
- Amos Tversky
W
- Daniel Wegner
- Kipling Williams
- Glenn D Wilson
- Timothy Wilson
- Robert S. Wyer - social cognition and information processing
Z
- Robert Zajonc - first academic to study the mere exposure effect
- Mark Zanna
- Philip Zimbardo - well known for conducting the Stanford prison experiment
See also
References
- ↑ "Interview with Laszlo Garai on the Activity Theory of Alexis Leontiev and his own Theory of Social Identity as referred to the meta-theory of Lev Vygotsky" 50 (1). Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. January–February 2012. pp. 50–64.