JEWS
RANKED AMONG THE 100 MOST EMINENT PSYCHOLOGISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
(39%
of total)
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What follows is a listing of Jews and
individuals of Jewish descent who are ranked among the one hundred
leading psychologists of the twentieth century, according to a study conducted by Steven Haggbloom entitled "The
100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century," published in Review
of General Psychology (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2002, pp.
139-152)*. The
study was based on journal and textbook citation frequency data,
together with
rankings
submitted by 1,725 members of the American Psychological
Association. (Only the first ninety-nine of the one hundred most
eminent were actually reported.) The ranking of each individual
is indicated in square brackets. The study contained two errors:
neither G. Stanley Hall nor Margaret Washburn should have been
included. Correcting for these errors affects slightly the
rankings of individuals who were ranked below them and opens up two
additional slots, which are now
filled by Leo Postman and Benjamin Winer.*
- Sigmund Freud [3]
- Leon Festinger [5]
- Stanley Schachter [7]
- Abraham Maslow [10]
- Erik Erikson 1 [12]
- Kurt Lewin [18]
- Jerome Kagan [22]
- Walter Mischel [25]
- Jerome Bruner [28]
- Lawrence Kohlberg [30]
- Martin Seligman [31]
- Ulric Neisser [32]
- Herbert Simon 2 [37]
- Noam Chomsky [38]
- Solomon Asch [41]
- Stanley Milgram [46]
- Lee Cronbach 3 [48]
- David Wechsler [51]
- Joseph Wolpe [53]
- Michael Posner [56]
- Elizabeth Loftus 4 [58]
- Paul Ekman [59]
- Robert Sternberg [60]
- Julian
Rotter [63]
- Alfred Adler [66]
- Alexander Luria [68]
- Leonard Berkowitz [74]
- Eliot Aronson [76]
- Irving Janis [77]
- Morton Deutsch [78]
- Richard Lazarus [79]
- Lev Vygotsky [82]
- Robert Rosenthal [83]
- Milton Rokeach [84]
- Amos Tversky [91.5]
- Herman Witkin [94]
- Anna Freud [97]
- Leo Postman [98]
- Benjamin Winer [99]
NOTES
* See http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/eminent.html.
For errata, see http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~shaggblo/Table4.htm.
1. Son of a
Danish-Jewish
mother,
Karla Abrahamsen, and a German-Jewish step-father, Dr. Theodor
Homburger.
Prior to her marriage to Homburger, Erikson's mother was briefly
married
to a Danish Jew, Valdemar Isidor Salomonson. Erikson claimed,
however,
that his biological father was an unknown, non-Jewish Dane.
2. Jewish
father, mother
of partial Jewish ancestry, self-identifies as a Jew, although not
religiously. See Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon
(BasicBooks, New
York, NY,
1991, pp. 3, 17, 112, 262.)
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see A History of Psychology in Autobiography: Volume 8, edited by G. Lindzey
(Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, 1989, p. 64).
4. Born
Elizabeth Fishman; see http://williamcalvin.com/2002/OrangeCtyRegister.htm.