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.
A Dominic Abrams Lauren Alloy Icek Ajzen Floyd Allport Gordon Allport Irwin Altman Craig A. Anderson Norman H. Anderson Michael Argyle Elliot Aronson Solomon Asch Berit Ås
B Anna Costanza Baldry Mahzarin Banaji Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or social cognitive theory) and self efficacy John Bargh - known for having several priming experiments that failed subsequent attempts at direct replication 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 Brad Bushman
C John Cacioppo Donald T. Campbell Tijuana L. Canders Merrill Carlsmith Nicholas Christenfeld Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes Ronald L. Cohen Peter T. Coleman Terri Conley Stuart W. Cook Charles Horton Cooley Nora Cortiñas William Crano
D James M. Dabbs, Jr. John M. Darley Shai Davidai Edward L. Deci - co-founder of Self-Determination Theory Morton Deutsch Ed Diener Carol Dweck
E Phoebe C. Ellsworth Jennifer Eberhardt
F Steven Fein Leon Festinger - originator of cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory Susan Fiske Erich Fromm
G Stanley O. Gaines 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 Mirta González Suárez 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 Jaber F. Gubrium - everyday life; narrative ethnography; organizational embeddedness
H Jonathan Haidt Rom Harré Elaine Hatfield Fritz Heider Miles Hewstone E. Tory Higgins - motivation, regulatory focus theory, regulatory engagement theory, regulatory mode Hilde Himmelweit Geert Hofstede Michael Hogg - social identity theory Carl Hovland
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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 Tim Kasser 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) Mark Leary 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 Eleanor Maccoby Ivana Markova Hazel Rose Markus Everett Dean Martin Francis T. McAndrew 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 David Myers (psychologist)
N David Nadler Theodore Newcomb Richard Nisbett Mary Louise Northway Andrzej Nowak
O Richard Ofshe Tom Ostrom
P Ian Parker James W. Pennebaker Richard E. Petty Anthony Pratkanis Tom Pyszczynski Ivan Pavlov
R Wilhelm Reich - mass psychology Steve Reicher Harry Reis Max Ringelmann Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error Zick Rubin - author of the first empirical measurement of love Richard M. Ryan - co-founder of Self-Determination Theory Richard M. Ryckman
S Stanley Schachter Gunter Schmidt Norbert Schwarz - known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology David P. Schmitt Martin Seligman Claire Selltiz Muzafer Sherif Boris Sidis - groundbreaking work on the psychology of suggestion, dissociative identity 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 E. Weick Kipling Williams Glenn D Wilson Timothy Wilson Robert S. Wyer - social cognition and information processing Wendy Wood
Z Robert Zajonc - first academic to study the mere exposure effect Mark Zanna Philip Zimbardo - known for conducting the Stanford prison experiment
See also List of psychologists List of sociologists
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