List of Jewish American psychologists

This is a list of famous Jewish American Psychologists.


 * Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
 * Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
 * Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
 * Paul Ekman, facial expressions
 * Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
 * Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
 * Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
 * Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
 * Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
 * Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
 * Irving Janis, social psychologist
 * Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, 2002 winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
 * Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
 * Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
 * Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
 * Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
 * Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
 * Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
 * Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
 * Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
 * Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
 * Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
 * Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
 * David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
 * Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
 * Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
 * Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
 * Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize (1978)
 * Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
 * David Wechsler, intelligence testing
 * George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
 * Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist