Table 1.3

Table 1.3
Top 20 rankings of eminent psychologists by gender.

Rankings by Women
1. B F Skinner
2. Erik Erikson
3. Jean Piaget
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Albert Bandura
6. Abraham Maslow
7. William James
8. Carl Rogers
9. Charles Spearman
10. Robert L. Thorndike
11. Elizabeth F. Loftus
12. Stanley Milgram
13. Alfred Adler
14. Solomon Asch
15. Wilhelm Wundt
16. Edward L. Thorndike
17. Harry F. Harlow
18. Floyd H. Allport
19. Ivan Pavlov
20. Hans Eysenck

Rankings by Men
1. William James
2. Wilhelm Wundt
3. B.F. Skinner
4. Ivan Pavlov
5. Charles Darwin
6. John B. Watson
7. Sigmund Freud
8. Jean Piaget
9. Edward L. Thorndike
10. Clark Hull
11. Hermann Helmholtz
12. Albert Bandura
13. Ulric Neisser
14. Gustav T. Fechner
15. G. Stanley Hall
16. Gordon W. Allport
17. Kurt Lewin
18. Stanley Milgram
19. Harry F. Harlow
20. Stanley Schachter

N.B. Figures on both lists appear in bold.
Source: Green, C. D., & Martin, S. M. (2017). Historical impact in psychology differs between demographic groups, New Ideas in Psychology, 47, 24-32.

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Table 1.3 Top 20 rankings of eminent psychologists by gender.

Table 1.3
Top 20 rankings of eminent psychologists by gender.