List of social psychologists

The following is a list of academics, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.

A

 * Robert P. Abelson
 * Icek Ajzen
 * Lauren Alloy
 * Floyd Allport
 * Gordon Allport
 * Michael Argyle
 * Elliot Aronson
 * Solomon Asch
 * Berit Ås

B

 * Mahzarin Banaji - co-creator of the Implicit Association Test along with Anthony Greenwald
 * Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or Social Cognitivism) and self efficacy
 * John Bargh
 * Robert A. Baron
 * Daniel Batson
 * Martin Bauer
 * Roy Baumeister
 * Alex Bavelas
 * Howard Becker
 * Ellen Berscheid
 * Michael Billig
 * Daryl Bem - proposed Self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
 * Gustav Le Bon
 * Arne van den Bos
 * Jack Brehm
 * Marilynn Brewer
 * Roger Brown

C

 * John Cacioppo
 * Donald T. Campbell
 * Hadley Cantril
 * Merrill Carlsmith
 * Donal Carlston
 * Shelley Chaiken
 * Robert Cialdini - known for his extensive and creative research on influence processes
 * Ronald L. Cohen
 * Joel Cooper

D

 * John Darley
 * Paul G. Davies
 * Patricia Devine
 * Ed Diener
 * Gerard Duveen
 * Carol Dweck

E

 * Derek Edwards
 * Phoebe C. Ellsworth

F

 * Rob Farr
 * Russell Fazio
 * Leon Festinger - originator of both cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
 * Dennis Fox

G

 * George Gaskell
 * Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
 * Kenneth Gergen
 * Brian G. Gilmartin -- developed theory of love-shyness
 * John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability
 * Anthony Greenwald

H

 * Rom Harré
 * Elaine Hatfield
 * Fritz Heider
 * Alexa Hepburn
 * Miles Hewstone
 * E. Tory Higgins
 * Hilde Himmelweit
 * Carl Hovland
 * Caroline Howarth

I
Chester Insko

J

 * Gustav Jahoda
 * 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

K

 * Robert M. Krauss
 * Daniel Kahneman
 * Harold Kelley
 * George Kelly
 * Herbert Kelman
 * Arie Kruglanski
 * Ziva Kunda

L

 * Joris Lammers
 * 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).
 * Mark Lepper
 * 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
 * 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
 * Serge Moscovici
 * Gordon Moskowitz

N

 * Richard Nisbett

O

 * Tom Ostrom

P

 * Richard E. Petty
 * P. Marijn Poortvliet
 * Leo Postman

R

 * Steve Reicher
 * Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect
 * Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error
 * Diane Ruble

S

 * Stanley Schachter
 * Gunter Schmidt
 * Martin Seligman
 * Muzafer Sherif
 * John Shotter
 * Volkmar Sigusch
 * Mark Snyder - prominent for his novel work on the self-monitoring process
 * Claude Steele - renowned for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat; also known for introducing self-affirmation theory
 * William Swann - best know for developing self-verification theory

T

 * Henri Tajfel
 * Gabriel Tarde
 * Carol Tavris
 * Shelley Taylor
 * Abraham Tesser
 * Norman Triplett - widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation
 * Bruce Tuckman
 * Fahad Turk
 * Amos Tversky

W

 * Gregory D. Webster
 * Gary Wells
 * Timothy Wilson

Z

 * Robert Zajonc - first academic to study the mere exposure effect
 * Alvin Zander
 * Mark Zanna
 * Philip Zimbardo - well-known for conducting the Stanford prison experiment

See also: list of psychologists, list of sociologists

Liste de psychologues sociaux