Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

Alexandra Forsythe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032134260
• eBook ISBN: 9781000575637
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought, work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology, considering a more diverse history of the discipline.

The revised text includes new biographies, histories, and overviews of the work from scientists and scholars such as Alfred Alder, Isabel Briggs Myers, Katherine Cook Briggs and Karen Horney, as well as major re-writes of the works of Freud, Binet and Jung, and some of the more controversial characters such as Charles Galton and Hans Eysenck. Exploring the often overlooked but significant contributions of black, Jewish, and Eastern scholars to the discipline, this new edition looks to address the historically imbalanced focus of particular key thinkers and begin unpicking the impact that race and gender had on the direction and advancement of the field. The book covers the black psychology movement from George Herman Candy to Mamie Phipps Clark, and Kenneth Bancroft Clark, the enormous contribution of Chinese psychologist Jing Qicheng, and some of the many great psychologists whose families were part of the waves of Jewish emigration to the United States escaping oppression, persecution and economic hardship, including Walter Mischel, Cary Cooper and Daniel Kahneman.

This fascinating and informative guide is an invaluable resource for those studying, working in, or who simply want to find out more about psychology, suitable for both students and the lay reader alike.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Alfred Alder (February 7, 1870–May 28, 1937)
• 2 Anne Anastasi (December 19, 1908–May 2, 2001)
• 3 John Robert Anderson (August 27, 1947–)
• 4 Alan D. Baddeley (1934–)
• 5 Mamie Phipps Clark (1917–1983) and Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914–2005)
• 6 Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925–July 26, 2021)
• 7 Frederick Charles Bartlett (October 20, 1886–September 30, 1969)
• 8 Daniel Ellis Berlyne (April 25, 1924–November 2, 1976)
• 9 Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857–October 18, 1911)
• 10 Donald Eric Broadbent (1926–1993)
• 11 George Herman Canady (1901–1970)
• 12 Raymond Bernard Cattell (March 20, 1905–February 2, 1998)
• 13 Katherine Cook Briggs (1875–1968) and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897–1980)
• 14 Sir Cary Cooper (April 28, 1940–)
• 15 Erik Homburger Erikson (June 15, 1902–May 12, 1994)
• 16 Hans Jurgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916–September 4, 1997)
• 17 Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939)
• 18 Francis Galton (February 16, 1822–January 17, 1911)
• 19 Howard Gardner (July 11, 1943) – at the time of writing aged
• 20 James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904–December 11, 1979)
• 21 Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866–June 18, 1957)
• 22 Lewis Robert Goldberg (January 28, 1932)
• 23 Daniel Goleman (March 7, 1946) – at the time of writing aged
• 24 Richard L. Gregory (July 24, 1923–May 17, 2010)
• 25 Starke Rosecrans Hathaway (August 22, 1903–July 4, 1984)
• 26 Donald Olding Hebb (1904–1985)
• 27 Karen Horney (September 16, 1885–December 4, 1952)
• 28 William James (January 11, 1842–August 26, 1910)
• 29 Arthur Jensen (August 24, 1923–October 22, 2012)
• 30 Carl Gustav Jung (June 6, 1875–June 6, 1961)
• 31 Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934) – at the time of writing aged
• 32 George Alexander Kelly (April 28, 1905–March 6, 1967)
• 33 Elizabeth Loftus track in red (October 16, 1944)
• 34 Eleanor Emmons Maccoby (May 15, 1917–December 11, 2018)
• 35 Abraham H. Maslow (April 1, 1908–June 8, 1970)
• 36 Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933–December 20, 1984)
• 37 Walter Mischel (February 22, 1930–September 12, 2018)
• 38 Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893–June 23, 1988)
• 39 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936)
• 40 Jean Claude Piaget (1896–1980)
• 41 Jing Qicheng (March 3, 1926–September 29, 2008)
• 42 John Carlyle Raven (June 28, 1902–August 10, 1970)
• 43 Carl Ransom Rogers (January 9, 1902–February 4, 1987)
• 44 Hermann Rorschach (November 8, 1884–April 2, 1922)
• 45 Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913–April 17, 1994)
• 46 Vygotsky (Vygotskii, Vygodskaya), Lev (Leon) Semeonovich (1896–1934)
• 47 Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920)
• 48 Philip George Zimbardo (March 23, 1933) – at the time of writing aged
• Index