This is a list of famous Jewish psychologists. For other famous people of the Jewish faith, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
- Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
- Shalom H. Schwartz, value studies
- Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
- Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
- Paul Ekman, facial expressions
- Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
- Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
- Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908-1958), co-editor (with Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford) of The Authoritarian Personality (Polish-born)
- Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
- Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
- Israel Goldiamond, behavioral psychologist and a founder of behavior modification
- Edith S. Lisansky Gomberg, clinical psychologist & alcoholism researcher
- Irving Gottesman, behavioral genetics
- John Gottman, marriage and relationships
- Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
- Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
- Irving Janis, social psychologist
- Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of Primal Therapy
- Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Amos Tversky winner (2002)
- Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
- Kurt Lewin, motivational psychologist (field theory)
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
- Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, and founder of Recovery International
- Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
- Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
- Rivka Bertisch Meir, psychologist and psychotherapist
- Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
- Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
- Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
- Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
- Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
- Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
- David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
- Lee Ross, fundamental attribution error
- Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
- Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
- Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
- Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
- Amos Tversky, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Daniel Kahneman winner (2002)
- David Wechsler, intelligence testing
- George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
- Bernard Weiner, attribution theory
- Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist
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