List of social psychologists

The following is a list of academicians, both past and present, who are widely renowned for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of social psychology.

A

* Robert P. Abelson
* Lauren Alloy
* Floyd Allport
* Gordon Allport
* Irwin Altman
* Norman H. Anderson
* Michael Argyle
* Elliot Aronson
* Solomon Asch
* Berit Ås

B

* Mahzarin Banaji - co-creator of the Implicit Association Test along with Anthony Greenwald
* Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or social cognitive theory) and self efficacy
* John Bargh
* Robert A. Baron
* Daniel Batson
* Martin Bauer
* Roy Baumeister
* Howard Becker
* Ellen S. Berscheid
* Michael Billig
* Daryl Bem - proposed Self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
* Gustav Le Bon
* Marilynn Brewer
* Roger Brown

C

* John Cacioppo
* Donald T. Campbell
* Merrill Carlsmith
* Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
* Ronald L. Cohen
* Charles Horton Cooley

D

* James M. Dabbs, Jr.
* John Darley
* Paul G. Davies
* Carol Dweck

E

* Derek Edwards
* Phoebe C. Ellsworth

F

* Armindo Freitas-Magalhaes
* Steven Fein
* Leon Festinger - originator of both cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
* Erich Fromm

G

* George Gaskell
* Bertram Gawronski
* Daniel Gilbert
* Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
* Kenneth Gergen
* Brian G. Gilmartin -- developed theory of love-shyness
* John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict future relationship quality and stability
* Anthony Greenwald-- Co-creator of the Implicit Association Test

H

* Rom Harré
* Elaine Hatfield
* Fritz Heider
* Miles Hewstone
* E. Tory Higgins
* Hilde Himmelweit
* Carl Hovland
* Caroline Howarth

I

* Michael Inzlicht

J

* Irving Janis - well-known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink"
* Blair Jarvis - founded Empirisoft in 1998, developing MediaLab and DirectRT software for conducting computerized social psychology experiments.
* Edward E. Jones - co-authored first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution error; known for researching actor-observer bias
* Sandra Jovchelovitch
* Charles Hubbard Judd

K

* Saul Kassin
* Daniel Kahneman
* Harold Kelley
* George Kelly
* Herbert Kelman
* Ziva Kunda

L

* Bibb Latané - initiated research on bystander intervention in emergencies (with John Darley), social loafing (with Kip Williams), and dynamic social impact theory (with Andrzej Nowak).
* Gustave Le Bon
* Mark Lepper
* Kurt Lewin - Often called "the father of social psychology"; one of first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development

M

* Hazel Rose Markus
* David McClelland
* George Herbert Mead - American philosopher (pragmatist), sociologist, and psychologist; a founder of social psychology; founder of symbolic interactionism
* Stanley Milgram - performed famous experiment that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures
* Walter Mischel - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality
* Abraham Moles, one of the first to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory
* Serge Moscovici
* Gordon Moskowitz

N

* Richard Nisbett

O

*Richard Ofshe
*Tom Ostrom

P

* Ian Parker (psychologist)
* Richard E. Petty
* Anthony Pratkanis
* Tom Pyszczynski

Q

R

* Wilhelm Reich, mass psychology.
* Steve Reicher
* Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect
* Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error

* Stanley Schachter
* Gunter Schmidt
* Norbert Schwarz - known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology
* Martin Seligman
* Muzafer Sherif
* Boris Sidis - groundbreaking work on the psychology of suggestion, multiple personality disorder, psychopathology, and genius
* Volkmar Sigusch
* Mark Snyder - prominent for his novel work on the self-monitoring process
* Claude Steele - renowned for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat; also known for introducing self-affirmation theory
* William Swann - best known for developing self-verification theory

T

* Henri Tajfel
* Gabriel Tarde
* Carol Tavris
* Shelley Taylor
* Norman Triplett - widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation
* Bruce Tuckman
* Amos Tversky

V

W

* Daniel Wegner
* Kipling Williams
* Glenn D Wilson
* Timothy Wilson

X

Y

Z

* Robert Zajonc - first academic to study the mere exposure effect
* Mark Zanna
* Philip Zimbardo - well-known for conducting the Stanford prison experiment

"See also": list of psychologists, list of sociologists