Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

by Alexandra Forsythe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032134284
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/2022
Series:	Routledge Key Guides
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alexandra Forsythe is Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Chartered Psychologist and Chair of Europe’s largest governing body for business psychologists, the Association for Business Psychology. Alex has been awarded two national awards for outstanding impact on student outcomes: Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the National Teaching Fellowship.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Alfred Alder (February 7, 1870-May 28, 1937) 4

2 Anne Anastasi (December 19, 1908-May 2, 2001) 11

3 John Robert Anderson (August 27, 1947-) 16

4 Alan D. Baddeley (1934-) 21

5 Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) and Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) 26

6 Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925-July 26, 2021) 34

7 Frederick Charles Bartlett (October 20, 1886-September 30, 1969) 39

8 Daniel Ellis Berlyne (April 25, 1924-November 2, 1976) 44

9 Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857-October 18, 1911) 51

10 Donald Eric Broadbent (1926-1993) 57

11 George Herman Canady (1901-1970) 62

12 Raymond Bernard Cattell (March 20, 1905-February 2, 1998) 66

13 Katherine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980) 73

14 Sir Cary Cooper (April 28, 1940-) 80

15 Erik Homburger Erikson (June 15, 1902-May 12, 1994) 86

16 Hans Jurgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916-September 4, 1997) 91

17 Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856-September 23, 1939) 101

18 Francis Galton (February 16, 1822-January 17, 1911) 112

19 Howard Gardner (July 11, 1943) - at the time of writing aged 78 122

20 James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904-December 11, 1979) 127

21 Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866-June 18, 1957) 133

22 Lewis Robert Goldberg (January 28, 1932) 141

23 Daniel Goleman (March 7, 1946) - at the time of writing aged 75 149

24 Richard L. Gregory (July 24, 1923-May 17, 2010) 153

25 Starke Rosecrans Hathaway (August 22, 1903-July 4, 1984) 158

26 Donald Olding Hebb (1904-1985) 164

27 Karen Horney (September 16, 1885-December 4, 1952) 170

28 William James (January 11, 1842-August 26, 1910) 178

29 Arthur Jensen (August 24, 1923-October 22, 2012) 184

30 Carl Gustav Jung (June 6, 1875-June 6, 1961) 192

31 Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934) - at the time of writing aged 87 200

32 George Alexander Kelly (April 28, 1905-March 6, 1967) 205

33 Elizabeth Loftus track in red (October 16, 1944) 211

34 Eleanor Emmons Maccoby (May 15, 1917-December 11, 2018) 215

35 Abraham H. Maslow (April 1, 1908-June 8, 1970) 219

36 Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933-December 20, 1984) 224

37 Walter Mischel (February 22, 1930-September 12, 2018) 229

38 Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893-June 23, 1988) 234

39 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) 241

40 Jean Claude Piaget (1896-1980) 247

41 Jing Qicheng (March 3, 1926-September 29, 2008) 253

42 John Carlyle Raven (June 28, 1902-August 10, 1970) 260

43 Carl Ransom Rogers (January 9, 1902-February 4, 1987) 266

44 Hermann Rorschach (November 8, 1884-April 2, 1922) 272

45 Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913-April 17, 1994) 281

46 Vygotsky (Vygotskii, Vygodskaya), Lev (Leon) Semeonovich (1896-1934) 286

47 Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920) 291

48 Philip George Zimbardo (March 23, 1933) - at the time of writing aged 90 298

Index 304