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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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

 * 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
 * Eleanor Maccoby

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

S

 * Stanley Schachter
 * Gunter Schmidt
 * Norbert Schwarz - known for his work on metacognitive experiences and survey methodology
 * 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