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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Otto Klineberg
psychologist
John Money
American psychologist
Harry F. Harlow
American psychologist
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
William Moulton Marston, a pioneer in developing the lie detector
William Moulton Marston
American psychologist
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
American psychologist
George A. Miller
American psychologist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
Masters and Johnson
American research team
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Edward L. Thorndike
American psychologist
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian psychologist

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