List of psychologists

This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline.

Specialised lists of psychologists can be found at the articles comparative psychology, list of social psychologists, list of Clinical Psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists and list of cognitive scientists. Psychologists included in those lists are also listed below:

A

 * Lyn Yvonne Abramson
 * Alfred Adler
 * Hagop S Akiskal
 * George Albee
 * Jüri Allik
 * Lauren Alloy
 * Gordon Allport
 * Harlene Anderson
 * John R. Anderson
 * Nancy C. Andreasen (psychiatrist)
 * Ernst Angel
 * Heinz Ansbacher
 * John Archer
 * Michael Argyle
 * Solomon Asch
 * Roberto Assagioli
 * John William Atkinson
 * Aušra Augustinavičiūtė

B

 * Mr. Krienke
 * Alan D Baddeley
 * Richard Bandler (Co-Founder of Neuro-linguistic programming - NLP)
 * Russell Barkley
 * Jerome Barkow
 * Lisa Feldman Barrett
 * Lawrence W. Barsalou
 * Frederic Bartlett
 * Daniel Batson
 * Aaron Beck
 * Larry E. Beutler
 * Alfred Binet
 * Robert Bjork
 * David F. Bjorklund
 * Gordon H. Bower
 * Nathaniel Branden
 * Carl Brigham
 * Urie Bronfenbrenner (Ecological Systems Theory)
 * Jerome Bruner
 * Emily Bushnell
 * David Buss
 * Ruth M. J. Byrne
 * Frances August

C

 * Mary Whiton Calkins
 * Donald T. Campbell
 * James Cattell
 * Raymond Cattell
 * Jean-Martin Charcot
 * Nancy Chodorow
 * Noam Chomsky
 * Robert Cialdini
 * Lee Anna Clark
 * Clyde Coombs
 * Leda Cosmides
 * Catharine Cox
 * Lee Cronbach
 * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

D

 * Martin Daly
 * Martin Dannecker
 * John Darley
 * Daniel O David
 * Richard Dawkins (For his work on Memes and relation to Evolutionary psychology)
 * John Dewey
 * Dietrich Doerner
 * Robin Dunbar
 * David F. Duncan

E

 * Hermann Ebbinghaus
 * Derek Edwards
 * Paul Ekman
 * Albert Ellis (founder of "Rational Emotive Behavorial Therapy")
 * Erik H. Erikson
 * Milton H. Erickson
 * John E. Exner
 * Hans Eysenck

F

 * Parvonae Fernandez
 * Leon Festinger
 * Edna B Foa
 * Viktor Frankl
 * Barbara Fredrickson
 * Anna Freud
 * Sigmund Freud (founder of Psychoanalysis)
 * Erich Fromm
 * Adrian Furnham

G

 * John Gabrieli
 * Francis Galton
 * Elmer R. Gates
 * Kenneth Gergen (Social constructionism)
 * J. J. Gibson
 * Brian G. Gilmartin -- developed theory of love-shyness
 * Stan Gooch
 * Florence Goodenough
 * Elizabeth Gould
 * James Gross
 * Robert Grosseteste
 * J. P. Guilford

H

 * Jay Haley
 * G. Stanley Hall
 * Robert Hare
 * Harry Harlow
 * Donald O. Hebb
 * Fritz Heider
 * Asgeir Helgason
 * Richard Herrnstein
 * Edwin Holt
 * Karen Horney
 * Clark L. Hull
 * Edwin Hutchins

J

 * Oliver James
 * William James
 * Kay Redfield Jamison
 * Arthur Janov (invented Primal therapy)
 * Julian Jaynes
 * Arthur Jensen
 * Marcia K. Johnson
 * Robert A. Johnson
 * Philip Johnson-Laird
 * Ernest Jones
 * Mary Cover Jones
 * Carl Gustav Jung

K

 * Jerome Kagan
 * Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize in Economics)
 * Alan S. Kaufman
 * Nadeen L. Kaufman
 * George Kelly
 * Harold Kelley
 * Otto F. Kernberg (psychiatrist)
 * Doreen Kimura
 * Alfred Kinsey
 * Melanie Klein
 * Brian Knutson
 * Kurt Koffka (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Wolfgang Köhler (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Lawrence Kohlberg
 * Heinz Kohut
 * Emil Kraepelin
 * Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

L

 * Jacques Lacan
 * Ellen Langer
 * Jan van der Lans
 * Karl Lashley
 * Bibb Latane
 * Richard Lazarus
 * Mark Lepper
 * Kurt Lewin
 * David Lewis
 * Benjamin Libet
 * Marsha M. Linehan
 * Elizabeth Loftus
 * Konrad Lorenz
 * Barry Lubetkin
 * Alexander Romanovich Luria/Lurija

M

 * Margaret Mahler
 * Abraham Maslow
 * William Masters and Virginia Johnson (Physicians)
 * Rollo May
 * David McClelland
 * James McClelland
 * William McDougall
 * Patrick J McGrath
 * Peter McGuffin
 * Jacques Mehler
 * Ronald Melzack
 * Wolfgang Metzger
 * Stanley Milgram
 * Alice Miller
 * George A. Miller
 * Neal E. Miller
 * Brenda Milner
 * Arnold Mindell (founder of Process Oriented Psychology)
 * Walter Mischel
 * Jacob L. Moreno (founder of Psychodrama)
 * C. Lloyd Morgan (noted for his canon)
 * Orval Hobart Mowrer
 * Hugo Munsterberg

N

 * Ulric Neisser
 * Alexander Sutherland Neill
 * Erich Neumann
 * Richard Nisbett
 * Donald Norman
 * Kent Norman

O

 * Bill O'Hanlon
 * Charles E. Osgood

P

 * Allan Paivio
 * Linda Papadopoulos
 * Gordon Parker
 * Ivan Pavlov
 * Fritz Perls
 * Christopher Peterson
 * Jean Piaget
 * Steven Pinker
 * Robert Plomin
 * Michael Posner
 * Jonathan Potter
 * James W. Prescott
 * Zenon Pylyshyn

R

 * Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
 * Otto Rank
 * Reimut Reiche
 * Ulf-Dietrich Reips
 * Daniel Reisberg
 * Samuel Renshaw
 * Cecil R. Reynolds
 * Sylvia Rimm
 * Carl Rogers
 * Stephen Rollnick (Together with Miller W.R. founder of Motivational Interviewing)
 * Hermann Rorschach
 * Eleanor Rosch
 * Paul Rosenfels
 * Robert Rosenthal
 * Barbara Rothbaum (Pioneer in the field of Virtual reality therapy )
 * John Rowan
 * David Rumelhart

S

 * Daniel Schacter
 * Stanley Schachter
 * Roy Schafer
 * Edgar Schein
 * Gunter Schmidt
 * Walter Dill Scott
 * Martin Seligman
 * Tamara Sher
 * Morita Shoma
 * Volkmar Sigusch
 * Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize in Economics)
 * Theodore Simon
 * B. F. Skinner
 * Paul Slovic
 * Stanley Smith Stevens
 * Charles Spearman
 * Richard Sternberg (published Diplomate)
 * Robert Sternberg
 * Harry Stack Sullivan
 * Hal Stone (co-creator of Voice Dialogue and Psychology of Selves)
 * Sidra Stone (co-creator of Voice Dialogue and Psychology of Selves)
 * William Swann
 * José Szapocznik
 * King Sweet (Creator of Slap You Up Therapy)

T

 * Lewis Terman
 * Edward Thorndike
 * L. L. Thurstone
 * Edward Titchener
 * Edward C. Tolman
 * John Tooby
 * Ellis Paul Torrance
 * Anne Treisman
 * Jeanne Tsai
 * Endel Tulving
 * Elliot Turiel (founder of Domain Theory, the primary challenge to Kohlberg's stages of moral development)
 * Amos Tversky
 * David Tzuriel

U

 * Dimitri Uznadze

V

 * Alfons Vansteenwegen
 * Lev Vygotsky
 * Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

W

 * Henri Wallon (French psychologist)
 * Hans-Jürgen Walter (founder of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy)
 * Brian Wansink
 * Margaret Floy Washburn (First female PhD in psychology)
 * John B. Watson
 * Paul Watzlawick
 * David Wechsler
 * Robert Weimar
 * Max Wertheimer (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Michael White (founder of Narrative Therapy)
 * Ken Wilber (Transpersonal psychology, then Integral psychology)
 * Donald Woods Winnicott
 * Robert S. Woodworth
 * Wilhelm Wundt  (father of Experimental psychology)

Y

 * Irvin Yalom (A psychiatrist, not a psychologist)
 * Robert Yerkes
 * Polly Young-Eisendrath

Z

 * Robert J. Zajonc
 * Oliver Zangwill
 * René Zazzo
 * Bluma Zeigarnik
 * Philip Zimbardo

Prescientific theorists

 * Aristotle
 * Buddhaghosa
 * René Descartes