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William James 1842–1910Scholars & Public IntellectualsFounded American psychology as a discipline and shaped pragmatist philosophy at Harvard.
B. F. Skinner 1904–1990Scholars & Public IntellectualsDeveloped operant conditioning and made behaviorism the dominant mid-century American psychology.
Daniel Kahneman 1934–2024Scholars & Public IntellectualsIsraeli-American psychologist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on behavioral economics and decision-making.
Abraham Maslow 1908–1970Scholars & Public IntellectualsProposed the hierarchy of needs and helped found humanistic psychology.
Steven Pinker b. 1954Scholars & Public IntellectualsCognitive psychologist and linguist whose books argue that reason and science have driven human progress.
Carl Rogers 1902–1987Scholars & Public IntellectualsCreated client-centered therapy and shaped modern counseling practice and training.
Herbert A. Simon 1916–2001Scholars & Public IntellectualsPolymath whose theories of bounded rationality and pioneering artificial-intelligence research transformed economics and decision science.