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The following is a list of academics, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.
Famous Social Psychologists:
 
   
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==A==
 
* [[Gordon Allport]]
 
* [[Gordon Allport]]
 
* [[Michael Argyle (psychologist)|Michael Argyle]]
 
* [[Michael Argyle (psychologist)|Michael Argyle]]
 
* [[Elliot Aronson]]
 
* [[Elliot Aronson]]
 
* [[Solomon Asch]]
 
* [[Solomon Asch]]
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==B==
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* [[Mahzarin Banaji]] - co-creator of the [[Implicit Association Test]] along with Anthony Greenwald
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* [[Albert Bandura]] - Canadian psychologist known for [[social learning theory]] (or [[Social Cognitivism]]) and [[self efficacy]]
 
* [[John Bargh]]
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* [[Roy Baumeister]]
 
* [[Alex Bavelas]]
 
* [[Alex Bavelas]]
 
* [[Howard Becker]]
 
* [[Howard Becker]]
* [[Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi]]
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* [[Michael Billig]]
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* [[Daryl Bem]] - proposed [[Self-perception theory]] of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's [[cognitive dissonance theory]]
* [[Daryl Bem]]
 
 
* [[Gustav Le Bon]]
 
* [[Gustav Le Bon]]
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* [[Arne van den Bos]]
 
* [[Marilynn Brewer]]
 
* [[Marilynn Brewer]]
* [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]] (founder of "Human Ecology" / theory of the ecology of human development)
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* [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]] - developmental psychologist, founder of "Human Ecology" / [[Ecological Systems Theory]]
 
* [[Roger Brown]]
 
* [[Roger Brown]]
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==C==
 
* [[Hadley Cantril]]
 
* [[Hadley Cantril]]
 
* [[Merrill Carlsmith]]
 
* [[Merrill Carlsmith]]
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* [[Donal Carlston]]
 
* [[Robert Cialdini]]
 
* [[Robert Cialdini]]
 
* [[Ronald L. Cohen]]
 
* [[Ronald L. Cohen]]
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==D==
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* [[Ed Diener]]
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==E==
 
* [[Derek Edwards]]
 
* [[Derek Edwards]]
 
* [[Phoebe C. Ellsworth]]
 
* [[Phoebe C. Ellsworth]]
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* [[Erik Erikson]] - German developmental psychologist known for theory of [[Erikson's stages of psychosocial development|stages of psychosocial development]]
* [[Erik Erikson]]
 
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==F==
 
* [[Russell Fazio]]
 
* [[Russell Fazio]]
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* [[Leon Festinger]] - originator of both [[cognitive dissonance theory]] and [[social comparison theory]]
* [[Leon Festinger]]
 
 
* [[Dennis Fox]]
 
* [[Dennis Fox]]
 
* [[Sigmund Freud]]
 
* [[Sigmund Freud]]
 
* [[Erich Fromm]]
 
* [[Erich Fromm]]
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* [[Thomas Gilovich]]
 
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* [[Thomas Gilovich]] - psychologist and key figure in [[behavioral economics]]
 
* [[Kenneth Gergen]]
 
* [[Kenneth Gergen]]
 
* [[Erving Goffman]]
 
* [[Erving Goffman]]
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==H==
 
* [[Rom Harré]]
 
* [[Rom Harré]]
 
* [[Fritz Heider]]
 
* [[Fritz Heider]]
 
* [[Alexa Hepburn]]
 
* [[Alexa Hepburn]]
 
* [[Carl Hovland]]
 
* [[Carl Hovland]]
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* [[Irving Janis]]
 
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==I==
* [[Edward E. Jones]]
 
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* [[Abraham Kaplan]]
 
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==J==
* [[Kurt Lewin]]
 
* [[George Herbert Mead]]
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* [[Gustav Jahoda]]
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* [[Irving Janis]] - well-known for his landmark research on the concept of "[[groupthink]]"
* [[Stanley Milgram]]
 
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* [[Edward E. Jones]] - co-authored first paper on what was later called [[fundamental attribution error]]; known for researching [[actor-observer bias]]
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==K==
 
* [[Robert M. Krauss]]
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==L==
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* [[Joris Lammers]]
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* [[Mark Lepper]]
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* [[Kurt Lewin]] - Often called "the father of social psychology"; one of first researchers to study [[group dynamics]] and [[organizational development]]
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* [[David McClelland]]
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* [[George Herbert Mead]] - American [[philosopher]] ([[pragmatism|pragmatist]]), [[sociologist]], and [[psychologist]]; a founder of social psychology; founder of [[symbolic interactionism]]
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* [[Stanley Milgram]] - performed [[Milgram experiment|famous experiment]] that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures
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* [[Walter Mischel]] - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality
 
* [[Serge Moscovici]]
 
* [[Serge Moscovici]]
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==N==
 
* [[Richard Nisbett]]
 
* [[Richard Nisbett]]
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==P==
 
* [[Richard E. Petty]]
 
* [[Richard E. Petty]]
* [[Lee Ross]]
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* [[P. Marijn Poortvliet]]
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==R==
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* [[Steve Reicher]]
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* [[Lee Ross]] - performed pioneering research on the [[fundamental attribution error]]
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==S==
 
* [[Stanley Schachter]]
 
* [[Stanley Schachter]]
 
* [[Muzafer Sherif]]
 
* [[Muzafer Sherif]]
 
* [[John Shotter]]
 
* [[John Shotter]]
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* [[Mark Snyder]] - prominent for his novel work on the [[self monitoring|self-monitoring process]]
* [[Henry Tajfel]]
 
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* [[Claude Steele]] - renowned for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat
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==T==
 
* [[Henri Tajfel]]
 
* [[Gabriel Tarde]]
 
* [[Gabriel Tarde]]
 
* [[Carol Tavris]]
 
* [[Carol Tavris]]
 
* [[Norman Triplett]]
 
* [[Norman Triplett]]
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==W==
 
* [[Gary Wells]]
 
* [[Gary Wells]]
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* [[Benjamin Zablocki]]
 
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==X==
* [[Robert Zajonc]]
 
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* [[Robert Zajonc]] - first academic to study the [[mere exposure effect]]
 
* [[Alvin Zander]]
 
* [[Alvin Zander]]
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* [[Philip Zimbardo]] - well-known for conducting the [[Stanford prison experiment|Stanford prison experiment]]
* [[Philip Zimbardo]]
 
   
   
 
''See also'': [[list of psychologists]]
 
''See also'': [[list of psychologists]]
   
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The following is a list of academics, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.


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See also: list of psychologists

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