# List of developmental psychologists

The following is a list of academics, both past and present, noted for their contributions to the field of developmental psychology.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Edith Ackermann (1946–2016)
* Lauren Adamson
* Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999)
* Martha W. Alibali
* Louise Bates Ames (1908–1906)
* Jeffrey Arnett
* Louise Arseneault

## B

* Donald M. Baer (1931–2002)
* Albert Bandura (1925–2021)
* Renée Baillargeon
* James Mark Baldwin (1861–1934)
* Paul Baltes (1939–2006)
* Simon Baron-Cohen
* Rachel Barr
* Nancy Bayley (1899–1994)
* Diana Baumrind (1927–2018)
* Jay Belsky (1952–)
* Leann Birch (1946–2019)
* Sidney W. Bijou (1908–2009)
* David F. Bjorklund
* Marc H. Bornstein (1947–)
* John Bowlby (1907–1990)
* Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917–2005)
* Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (1946–)
* Christia Spears Brown
* Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)
* Charlotte Bühler
* Erica Burman

## C

* Stephen J. Ceci
* Dante Cicchetti
* Edouard Claparède (1873–1940)
* Mamie Phipps Clark (1917–1983)
* Ann M. Clarke (1928–2015)
* K. Alison Clarke-Stewart (1943–2014)
* Cynthia García Coll
* Wendy Craig
* Nicki R. Crick (1958–2012)

## D

* Brian D'Onofrio
* Kazimierz Dąbrowski
* William Damon
* Kirby Deater-Deckard
* Andreas Demetriou
* Martin Deutsch
* Rheta DeVries
* Adele Diamond
* Kenneth A. Dodge
* Judith Dunn

## E

* Jacquelynne Eccles
* Bruce J. Ellis

## F

* Robert L. Fantz (1925–1981)
* Shirley Feldman
* Anne Fernald
* John H. Flavell (1928–)
* Robyn Fivush
* Uta Frith (1941–)
* Hans G. Furth

## G

* Howard Gardner (1943–)
* Eleanor J. Gibson (1910–2002)
* Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
* Florence Goodenough (1886–1959)
* Gail Goodman
* Alison Gopnik
* Thérèse Gouin-Décarie
* Clare W. Graves (1914–1986)
* Giordana Grossi

## H

* G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924)
* Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
* Margaret Kuenne Harlow (1918–1971)
* Isoko Hatano (1905–1978)
* Jutta Heckhausen
* E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023)
* Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
* Lois Holzman
* Frances Degen Horowitz (1932–2021)
* Ruth Winifred Howard (1900–1997)

## I

* Bärbel Inhelder (1913–1997)
* Susan Sutherland Isaacs (1885–1948)
* Jana Iverson

## K

* Robert Kegan
* Grazyna Kochanska
* Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987)
* Helen L. Koch (1895–1977)

## L

* Michael Lamb
* Lee C. Lee (1935–2006)
* Aleksei Leontiev (1903–1979)
* Richard M. Lerner (1946–)
* Daniel Levinson (1920–1994)
* Lynn S. Liben
* Jane Loevinger (1918–2008)
* Abraham Low (1891–1954)
* Margaret Lowenfeld (1890–1973)

## M

* Eleanor Maccoby (1917–2018)
* James Marcia
* Ann Masten
* Daphne Maurer
* Vonnie McLoyd
* Andrew N. Meltzoff (1950–)

## N

* Katherine Nelson (1930–2018)
* John Nesselroade
* Erich Neumann
* Elissa L. Newport
* Anat Ninio
* Mary Louise Northway

## O

* Jelena Obradovic
* Kristina Olson
* Joy Osofsky
* Willis Overton

## P

* Juan Pascual-Leone
* Anne C. Petersen (1944–)
* Jean Piaget (1896–1980)
* Debra Pepler
* James W. Prescott (1934–)

## R

* Marian Radke-Yarrow (1918–2007)
* Harriet Lange Rheingold (1908–2000)
* Gina Rippon
* Mary K. Rothbart (1940–)
* Michael Rutter (1933–2021)

## S

* Carolyn Saarni (1945–2015)
* Jenny Saffran
* Arnold J. Sameroff
* K. Warner Schaie
* Núria Sebastián Gallés
* Michael Siegal
* Linda Siegel
* Robert S. Siegler
* Marian Sigman
* B. F. Skinner (1904–1990)
* Sara Smilansky (1922–2006)
* Linda B. Smith
* Andrea Smorti
* Catherine E. Snow
* Aletha Solter
* Edmund Sonuga-Barke
* Elizabeth Spelke
* Margaret Beale Spencer
* Laurence Steinberg (1952–)
* Clara Stern (1877–1945)
* Deborah Stipek
* Robert Stoller (1925–1991)

## T

* Esther Thelen
* Barbara Tizard
* Deborah Tolman
* Michael Tomasello
* Edward Tronick
* Elliot Tucker-Drob
* Elliot Turiel (1938–)
* Gerald Turkewitz

## V

* Mary K. Rothbart
* Deborah Vandell
* Jaan Valsiner
* Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)

## W

* Theodore Wachs
* John B. Watson (1878–1958)
* Sandra Waxman
* Richard A. Weinberg
* Janet F. Werker
* Emmy Werner (1929–2017)

## Z

* Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
* Edward Zigler (1930–2019)
* Pyotr Zinchenko (1903–1969)