# 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
* 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

* Dominic Abrams
* Lauren Alloy
* Icek Ajzen
* Floyd Allport
* Gordon Allport
* Irwin Altman
* Craig A. Anderson
* Norman H. Anderson
* Michael Argyle
* Elliot Aronson
* Solomon Asch
* Berit Ås

## B

* Anna Costanza Baldry
* Mahzarin Banaji
* Albert Bandura - Canadian psychologist known for social learning theory (or social cognitive theory) and self efficacy
* John Bargh - known for having several priming experiments that failed subsequent attempts at direct replication
* Robert A. Baron
* Daniel Batson
* Martin Bauer
* Roy Baumeister
* Howard Becker
* Daryl Bem - proposed self-perception theory of attitude change, competitor to Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory
* Ellen S. Berscheid
* Michael Billig
* Hart Blanton
* Marilynn Brewer
* Roger Brown
* Brad Bushman

## C

* John Cacioppo
* Donald T. Campbell
* Merrill Carlsmith
* Nicholas Christenfeld
* Robert Cialdini - known for his research on influence processes
* Ronald L. Cohen
* Peter T. Coleman
* Terri Conley
* Stuart W. Cook
* Charles Horton Cooley
* Nora Cortiñas
* William Crano

## D

* James M. Dabbs, Jr.
* John M. Darley
* Shai Davidai
* Edward L. Deci - co-founder of Self-Determination Theory
* Morton Deutsch
* Ed Diener
* Carol Dweck

## E

* Phoebe C. Ellsworth
* Jennifer Eberhardt

## F

* Steven Fein
* Leon Festinger - originator of cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory
* Susan Fiske
* Erich Fromm

## G

* Stanley O. Gaines
* Laszlo Garai - developed theory of social identity as mediating factor
* George Gaskell
* Bertram Gawronski
* Kenneth Gergen
* Daniel Gilbert
* Thomas Gilovich - psychologist and key figure in behavioral economics
* Erving Goffman
* Mirta González Suárez
* John Gottman - researcher known for his work in identifying relationship behaviors that predict relationships' future quality and stability
* Anthony Greenwald - creator of the Implicit Association Test
* Jaber F. Gubrium - everyday life; narrative ethnography; organizational embeddedness

## H

* Jonathan Haidt
* Rom Harré
* Elaine Hatfield
* Fritz Heider
* Miles Hewstone
* E. Tory Higgins - motivation, regulatory focus theory, regulatory engagement theory, regulatory mode
* Hilde Himmelweit
* Geert Hofstede
* Michael Hogg - social identity theory
* Carl Hovland

## I

* Michael Inzlicht

## J

* Irving Janis - known for his landmark research on the concept of "groupthink"
* Edward E. Jones - co-authored the first paper on what was later called fundamental attribution error; known for researching actor-observer bias
* Sandra Jovchelovitch
* Charles Hubbard Judd

## K

* Daniel Kahneman
* Tim Kasser
* Saul Kassin
* Harold Kelley
* George Kelly
* Herbert Kelman
* Arie Kruglanski
* 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)
* Mark Leary
* Gustave Le Bon
* Mark Lepper
* Becca Levy
* Kurt Lewin - often called "the father of social psychology"; one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development

## M

* Eleanor Maccoby
* Ivana Markova
* Hazel Rose Markus
* Everett Dean Martin
* Francis T. McAndrew
* David McClelland
* Joseph E. McGrath - group dynamics researcher
* 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
* David Myers (psychologist)

## N

* David Nadler
* Theodore Newcomb
* Richard Nisbett
* Mary Louise Northway
* Andrzej Nowak

## O

* Richard Ofshe
* Tom Ostrom

## P

* Ian Parker
* James W. Pennebaker
* Richard E. Petty
* Anthony Pratkanis
* Tom Pyszczynski
* Ivan Pavlov

## R

* Wilhelm Reich - mass psychology
* Steve Reicher
* Harry Reis
* Max Ringelmann
* Robert Rosenthal - Pygmalion effect
* Lee Ross - performed pioneering research on the fundamental attribution error
* Zick Rubin - author of the first empirical measurement of love
* Richard M. Ryan - co-founder of Self-Determination Theory
* Richard M. Ryckman

## S

* Stanley Schachter
* Gunter Schmidt
* Norbert Schwarz - known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology
* David P. Schmitt
* Martin Seligman
* Claire Selltiz
* Muzafer Sherif
* Boris Sidis - groundbreaking work on the psychology of suggestion, dissociative identity disorder, psychopathology, and genius
* Volkmar Sigusch
* Linda Skitka
* Diederik Stapel - founder of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, later suspended from Tilburg University for fabricating and manipulating data
* Claude Steele - known for his groundbreaking work on stereotype threat and for introducing self-affirmation theory
* William Swann - known for developing self-verification theory

## T

* Henri Tajfel
* Jeffrey S. Tanaka
* Gabriel Tarde
* Carol Tavris
* Shelley Taylor
* John Thibaut - first editor of JESP, known for Interdependence Theory from "The Social Psychology of Groups"
* Norman Triplett - widely credited with the first published study in the field of social psychology, with his work on social facilitation
* Bruce Tuckman
* John C. Turner
* Amos Tversky

## W

* Daniel Wegner
* Karl Weick
* Kipling Williams
* Glenn D Wilson
* Timothy Wilson
* Robert S. Wyer - social cognition and information processing
* Wendy Wood

## Z

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