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List of social psychologists

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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.

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  • 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
  • Daryl Bem - proposed self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
  • Ellen S. Berscheid
  • Michael Billig
  • Hart Blanton
  • Marilynn Brewer
  • Roger Brown
  • Peter Burke - created identity control theory
  • W. Warner Burke
  • Brad Bushman

    • C

  • John Cacioppo
  • Donald T. Campbell
  • Merrill Carlsmith
  • Nicholas Christenfeld
  • Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
  • Ronald L. Cohen
  • Stuart W. Cook
  • Charles Horton Cooley
  • William Crano

    • D

  • James M. Dabbs, Jr.
  • John M. Darley
  • Ed Diener
  • Carol Dweck

    • E

  • Phoebe C. Ellsworth

    • F

  • Steven Fein
  • Leon Festinger - originator of cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
  • Susan Fiske
  • Erich Fromm

    • G

  • Laszlo Garai - developed theory of social identity as mediating factor
  • George Gaskell
  • Bertram Gawronski
  • Kenneth Gergen
  • Daniel Gilbert
  • Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
  • Erving Goffman
  • John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict relationships' future 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

  • Michael Inzlicht

    • J

  • Irving Janis - known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink"
  • Edward E. Jones - co-authored the first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution error; known for researching actor-observer bias
  • Sandra Jovchelovitch
  • Charles Hubbard Judd

    • K

  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Saul Kassin
  • Harold Kelley
  • George Kelly
  • Herbert Kelman
  • Arie Kruglanski
  • Ziva Kunda

    • 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)
  • Gustave Le Bon
  • Mark Lepper
  • Becca Levy
  • Kurt Lewin - often called "the father of social psychology"; one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development

    • M

  • Ivana Markova
  • 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

  • David Nadler
  • Theodore Newcomb
  • Richard Nisbett
  • Andrzej Nowak

    • O

  • Richard Ofshe
  • Tom Ostrom

    • P

  • Ian Parker
  • Richard E. Petty
  • Anthony Pratkanis
  • Tom Pyszczynski

    • 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
  • Claire Selltiz
  • 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 - known for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat and for introducing self-affirmation theory
  • William Swann - known for developing self-verification theory

    • T

  • Henri Tajfel
  • Jeffrey S. Tanaka
  • 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
  • Karl Weick
  • 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 - known for conducting the Stanford prison experiment

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