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Everyone has their pet theories and theorists, so some objective measure is needed to determine who the most important authors in psychology are. (Even though a good case could be made that psychodynamic theories and radical behaviorism have been largely abandoned by psychology departments these days, we'll not pursue this.) I've chosen the psychologists determined to be the most historically important throughout the 20th century by a multi-method empirical study (Haggbloom, S.J. et al, 2002, The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century, Review of General Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2, 139–152.) The authors combined most frequently cited in the professional psychological journal literature, most frequently cited in introductory psychology textbooks, and most frequently named in a survey of members of the Association for Psychological Science, in addition to 3 qualitative variables converted to numerical scores. While a case could be made to chose a more recent period, namely, that outdated theories and theorists are more represented in a list going back so far, it nevertheless seems more appropriate to represent the whole period, including outdated theories, in an encyclopedia article. Someone can format this if they like (though it might take up a lot of vertical space):
| Table 4. The 100 (99 Reported) Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century | |||||||
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| Rank | Name | JCL rank | TCL rank | SL rank | NAS | APA award/president | Eponym |
| 1 | B.F. Skinner | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1950 | 1958/- | Skinnerian |
| 2 | Jean Piaget | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1966 | 1969/- | Piagetian |
| 3 | Sigmund Freud | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | -/- | Freudian |
| 4 | Albert Bandura | 5 | 3 | 5 | - | 1980/1974 | Bandura’s social learning theory |
| 5 | Leon Festinger | 12 | 19 | 11.5 | 1972 | 1959/- | Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory |
| 6 | Carl Rogers | 28.5 | 5 | 9.5 | - | 1956/1947 | Rogerian therapy |
| 7 | Stanley Schachter | 46 | 6 | 24 | 1983 | 1969/- | Schachter’s affiliation studies |
| 8 | Neal E. Miller | 13 | 9 | 14.5 | 1958 | 1959/1961 | |
| 9 | Edward Thorndike | 40 | 50 | 9.5 | 1917 | -/1912 | Thorndike’s puzzle box |
| 10 | Abraham Maslow | 37 | 14 | 19 | - | -/1968 | Maslow’s hierarchy |
| 11 | Gordon Allport | 51 | 18 | 14.5 | - | 1964/1939 | Allport A–S reaction study |
| 12 | Erik Erikson | 16 | 11 | 17 | - | -/- | Erikson’s psychosocial stages |
| 13 | Hans Eysenck | 3 | 30 | 24 | - | -/- | Eysenck personality inventory |
| 14 | William James | - | 29 | 6.5 | 1906 | -/1904 | James–Lange theory of emotion |
| 15 | David McClelland | 34 | 10 | 31 | - | 1987/- | |
| 16 | Raymond Cattell | 7 | 37 | 31 | - | -/- | Cattell 16 Factor Personality Questionnaire |
| 17 | John B. Watson | - | 17 | 4 | - | -/1915 | Watsonian behaviorism |
| 18 | Kurt Lewin | 47 | 73.5 | 8 | - | -/- | Lewinian psychology |
| 19 | Donald O. Hebb | 58 | - | 11.5 | 1979 | 1961/1960 | Hebbian |
| 20 | George A. Miller | 43 | 46 | 67 | 1962 | 1963/1969 | |
| 21 | Clark L. Hull | 73 | 73.5 | 14.5 | 1936 | -/1936 | Hullian |
| 22 | Jerome Kagan | 20 | 23 | 67 | - | 1987/- | |
| 23 | Carl Jung | 50 | 40 | 39.5 | - | -/- | Jungian |
| 24 | Ivan Pavlov | - | 22 | 6.5 | - | -/- | Pavlovian |
| 25 | Walter Mischel | 48 | 24.5 | 67 | - | 1982/- | |
| 26 | Harry Harlow | 100 | 7 | 51 | 1951 | 1960/1958 | |
| 27 | J. P. Guilford | 10 | 61 | - | 1954 | 1964/1950 | Guilford–Martin personnel inventory |
| 28 | Jerome Bruner | 14 | 70.5 | 31 | - | 1962/1965 | |
| 29 | Ernest Hilgard | 67 | 27 | 51 | 1948 | 1967/1949 | |
| 30 | Lawrence Kohlberg | 39 | 16 | 97 | - | -/- | Kohlberg stages of moral development |
| 31 | Martin Seligman | 93 | 13 | 31 | - | -/1998 | |
| 32 | Ulric Neisser | 59 | 71 | 31 | 1984 | -/- | |
| 33 | Donald T. Campbell | 11 | - | 67 | 1973 | 1970/1975 | Campbell’s design approach |
| 34 | Roger Brown | 30 | 8 | - | 1972 | -/- | |
| 35 | Robert Zajonc | - | 21 | 39.5 | - | 1978/- | Zajonc social facilitation |
| 36 | Endel Tulving | 32.5 | 47.5 | - | 1988 | 1983/- | |
| 37 | Herbert A. Simon | 32.5 | - | 24 | 1953 | 1969/- | |
| 38 | Noam Chomsky | - | 28 | 39.5 | 1972 | 1984/- | |
| 39 | Edward E. Jones | 57 | 44.5 | - | - | 1977/- | Jones’s correspondent inference theory |
| 40 | Charles E. Osgood | 9 | - | 97 | 1972 | 1960/1963 | Osgood’s transfer surface |
| ... | |||||||
Remember that this is a psychology template, not a psychiatry template. -DoctorW 17:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to recommend Nathaniel Branden for addition to this list for the following contributions:
He is often thought of as a pop-psychologist which isn't true given the depth of his work and the impact on the field as a whole. He is also criticized for his association with Ayn Rand when young - but that isn't relevant to his work as a psychologist. I'll let this sit for a while, as a kind of request for comments, before adding his name. Steve 21:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting those edits, DoctorW. "Ill-conceived" is the word. This is outright boosterism. Perhaps Jagged85 would like to create a separate template to push his POV that Muslim scholars did everything hundreds of years before Europeans. Famousdog (talk) 22:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
The order of entries in the template was taken from the order found in the multi-method empirical study, that is, in order by importance. The length of the list was decided by the somewhat subjective judgment that Jung and Pavlov should be on it but the next several names were not as important and list shouldn't be too long. Rearranging them by alphabetical order suggests that this particular group is some kind of canonical list. It makes a lot more sense to me to keep it in order of importance, suggesting that it trails off after the names included. One could also cite the rationale behind ordering disambiguation pages by importance, though in this case there is the added argument that a continuation of the list is implied.
In any case, people making a substantial change to the template should probably argue for their change here. -DoctorW 14:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Probably everyone with a slight knowledge of psychotherapy would agree of the importance of Aaron T. Beck and Albert Ellis in modern psychotherapy. Both are the founder of the cognitive paradigm shift in psychotherapy. Psychology Today described Albert Ellis as the "greatest living psychologist," while the American Psychological Association in 2003 named him the second most influential psychologist of the twentieth century (Carl Rogers came first; Freud was third). -Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.117.10.100 (talk) 08:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
What do people think of the idea of creating a psychotherapy template? -DoctorW 18:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
I would like to ask for suggestions. Maintaining this template is difficult, because lots of editors want to add their pet psychology topic to it, but often such additions are questionable. This has been especially true of important psychologists, but in fact this is where we've had some success. The widely cited multiple-criteria research study cited in detail above is by far the best guideline we have found, and we have been able to stick to it well. Where help is needed is in coming up with some guidelines, preferably somewhat objective, for inclusion of other items, particularly subdisciplines. There will be lots of borderline topics needing a decision.
One possibility is Google Scholar results, which is an objective, though somewhat blunt, instrument. If we use them (perhaps as one of several criteria?) we would have to make an allowance for the fact that in some cases adding the word "psychology" to the phrase will be necessary (e.g., "Evolutionary psychology"). Taking a stab at this, it looks like requiring about 10,000 Google Scholar results for a phrase that does not need to have "psychology" added, or about 5,000 results if "psychology" does need to be added. What do people think? What other objective criteria might we use? Having a division of APA? If there are a number of good, objective criteria, editors could argue for inclusion even if all criteria weren't met, but rather on the basis of being very strong on the others. Comments? -DoctorW 18:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Because, only behaviorist psychologist have a lot of citation. I think that other psychoanalyst, modern, can be hier ! For exmaple Andre Green, Horacio Etchegoyen, etc., etc. Thank Bettibossi (talk) 13:08, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
The order of the list above - an empirical study widely cited - is in order by the score received by each subject for 6 variables. The order is important because it is in order by importance. I really don't know what else to say to those who disagree (such as those who want to put it in alphabetical order). If you have a different list, please provide sources and argue for why your list (and/or the order you use) makes more sense than the one empirically determined as referenced above. -DoctorW 04:14, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Not so fast - You're not the only psychologist editing WP, and getting one person to agree with you hardly constitutes a consensus. Be patient and wait until all have had their say before deciding on a course of action.
I think you're confused about what the purpose of a template is. WP is an encyclopedia. Templates serve to direct readers to other sections of the encyclopedia. The easiest way to do that is through alphabetical indexes, so the reader can quickly find what s/he is looking for. Notice that the other sections of the Psychology template are alphabetized, as are virtually all WP templates. Having said that, I can see where you might want to provide information on who the most eminent psychologists are. That's what an article is for. Why don't you create an article, e.g., "List of most eminent psychologists"? That would also allow you to include all 100 psychologists, not just the 25 included in the template; to provide other important information, such as what the criteria were for inclusion in the list, the differences between the journal, textbook, and survey results; and to discuss the limitations of the study (e.g., members of APS were surveyed, but not members of APA; extremely low survey response rate; very low correlation across measures; see also Black, S.L. (2003) "Cannonical [sic] confusions, an illusory allusion, and more: A critique of Haggbloom et al.'s list of eminent psychologists (2002)." Psychological Reports, 92, 853-857.). Seems like a reasonable solution to me that meets all goals: help the reader easily find what s/he is looking for + provide information on the top psychologists. Otherwise, you're just trying to make a template serve too many purposes.
–- DrK 64.252.28.1 (talk) 15:52, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
What about William James? He didn't get enough points in the study? -Mattisse (Talk) 04:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm surprised to see Ken Wilber not listed herein for his contributions to theoretical psychology and transpersonal psychology (Wilber has been described by Prof. Roger Walsh of U. of C. as the greatest theoretical psychologist of our time, and he was universally regarded as a founder and most eminent transpersonal psychologist until he disowned the field in favor of integral psychology.) While I can understand the merits of stocking the list with handpicked theorists from the article by Haggbloom, S.J., one has to consider sampling bias when not a single representative of the transpersonal or integral schools are even cited once (anybody know how many transpersonal psychologists were included in the study?). I have added him in order to correct a bias.
Wilber is regarded as the most widely translated academic author of our time, with twenty books translated into 34 languages or something like that. No kidding. For the uninitiated, see, e.g.,
http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/Metagenius-part1.pdf
To pick an exemplary quote, "Ken Wilber... joins the ranks of the grand theorists of human consciousness like Ernst Cassier, Mircea Eliade, and Gregory Batesom" -- Dr. Daniel Goleman, Sr. Editor, Psychology Today
Or Dr. Silas Wesley, prof. Clinical Psychology, Yale Univ., "I consider [Wilber's] Up from Eden the single greatest work on psychology ever written--including Freud, Jung, et al."
And what other psychologist did Nicole Kidman mention alongside Piaget as the most influential developmental psychologist of our century in the movie "The Invasion"? Ken Wilber, of course. ;-)
http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/Metagenius-part1.pdf Joeperez69 (talk) 02:01, 14 January 2010 (UTC) Joe Perez
The family of articles related to memory has been developed a great deal this year. We need somehow to link into this, because it's easy to miss this from the templates. How about a row in the template for processes such as memory and perception? MartinPoulter (talk) 12:38, 16 August 2010 (UTC) Other suggestions as they come to me: attention, introspection. MartinPoulter (talk) 12:46, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that Psychology of religion should be listed in this template. After all, it's long had its own APA Divison 36. Also, APA will soon be publishing an official APA 2-volume handbook on psychology of religion (part of a handbook series, I believe). And APA sponsors a journal on the topic (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality). Plus, huge proportions of American adults (as well as many adults in many other countries/cultures) identify religion/spirituality as one of the most powerful and important influences in their lives. This area is different - I would say larger, and with more mainstream acceptance - than Transpersonal psychology, which is listed in the template as an "orientation" (comment: I'm not sure I'd call Psychology of religion an "orientation" since it can be, and is, studied from many different theoretical perspectives). There would seem to be at least 2 ways to proceed for inclusion in the template:
Any opinions about best ways to proceed? Health Researcher (talk) 21:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
"Personality psychology" is already included in the template. Narcissism is a sub-topic of this, not a peer of it. I don't think Narcissism belongs in the template, because it's a topic within an area of psychology, rather than an area itself. Naturally, if someone can show a reliable source that treats it as a peer to the other things in the template, I'm persuadable it should be included. MartinPoulter (talk) 19:18, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
I just added Viktor Frankl to the list. He is the founder of Logotherapy, the 3rd Vienese School of Psychology (after Freud and Adler), has made great contributions to the science, and his book Man's Search for Meaning, by Wikipedia's own entry " Man's Search For Meaning belongs to a list of "the ten most influential books in [the United States]." (New York Times, November 20, 1991). At the time of the author's death in 1997, the book had sold 10 million copies in twenty-four languages." I guess someone can erase it, but I think I have put forward good reasons for him to be on the list. -Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.173.217 (talk) 07:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
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