List of Jewish American psychologists

This is a list of famous Jewish psychologists. For other famous people of the Jewish faith, see List of Jewish Americans.

• Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
• Solomon Asch, gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
• Richard Bandler, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
• Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
• Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
• Cary Cooper, organizational psychologist
• Paul Ekman, facial expressions
• Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
• Leon Festinger, theory of cognitive dissonance
• Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908-1958), co-editor (with Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford) of The Authoritarian Personality (Polish-born)
• Erich Fromm, psychologist and humanistic philosopher
• Carol Gilligan, psychologist and ethicist
• Israel Goldiamond, behavioral psychologist and a founder of behavior modification
• Daniel Goleman, expert in emotional intelligence
• Edith S. Lisansky Gomberg, clinical psychologist and alcoholism researcher
• Irving Gottesman, behavioral genetics
• John Gottman, marriage and relationships
• Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
• Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
• Frederick Irving Herzberg, two-factor theory of job satisfaction
• Irving Janis, social psychologist
• Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of primal therapy
• Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Amos Tversky winner (2002)
• Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
• Kurt Lewin, motivational psychologist (field theory)
• Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
• Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
• Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, founder of Recovery International
• Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
• Rivka Bertisch Meir, psychologist and psychotherapist
• Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
• Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
• Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
• Fritz Perls, gestalt therapy
• Steven Pinker, psychologist and writer
• Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
• David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
• Lee Ross, fundamental attribution error
• Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
• Francine Shapiro, creator of EMDR therapy
• Shalom H. Schwartz, value studies
• Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
• Martin Seligman, positive psychologist
• Herbert A. Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
• Robert Sternberg, intelligence and creativity
• Amos Tversky, prospect theory, 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics winner (with Daniel Kahneman)
• David Wechsler, intelligence testing
• George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
• Bernard Weiner, attribution theory
• Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist