From Haggbloom et al. (2002).

The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20

th
Century. Review of General
Psychology, 6, 139-152. For a corrected list, go to: http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~shaggblo/Table4Revised.PDF
Table 4
Final
Rank
JCL
Rank
TCL
Rank
SL
Rank
Name NAS APA
Award/Pres
Eponym
1 8 2 1 Skinner, B.F. 1950 1958/-- Skinnerian, Skinner Box,
2 2 4 2 Piaget, Jean 1966 1969/-- Piagetian Tasks
3 1 1 3 Freud, Sigmund -- --/-- Freudian
4 5 3 5 Bandura, Albert -- 1980/1974 Banduras social learning theory
5 12 19 11.5 Festinger, Leon 1972 1959/-- Festingers cognitive dissonance theory
6 28.5 5 9.5 Rogers, Carl R. -- 1956/1947 Rogerian Therapy
7 46 6 24 Schachter, Stanley 1983 1969/-- Schachters affiliation studies
8 13 9 14.5 Miller, Neal E. 1958 1959/1961
9 40 50 9.5 Thorndike, Edward L. 1917 --/1912 Thorndikes puzzle box, Thorndike-
Lorge List
10 37 14 19 Maslow, A.H. -- --/1968 Maslows hierarchy
11 51 18 14.5 Allport, Gordon W. -- 1964/1939 Allport A-S reaction study
12 16 11 17 Erikson, Eric H. -- --/-- Eriksons psychosocial stages
13 3 30 24 Eysenck, Hans J. -- --/-- Eysenck personality inventory
14 -- 29 6.5 James, William 1906 --/1904 James-Lange theory of emotion
15 34 10 31 McClelland, David. C. -- 1987/--
16 7 37 31 Cattell, Raymond B. -- --/-- Cattell 16 personality factor
questionnaire
17 -- 17 4 Watson, John B. -- --/1915 Watsonian Behaviorism
18 47 73.5 8 Lewin, Kurt -- --/-- Lewinian psychology
19 58 -- 11.5 Hebb, Donold O. 1979 1961/1960 Hebbian
20 43 46 67 Miller, George A. 1962 1963/1969
21 73 73.5 14.5 Hull, Clark L. 1936 --/1936 Hullian
22 20 23 67 Kagan, Jerome -- 1987/--
23 50 40 39.5 Jung, C.G. -- --/-- Jungian
Final
Rank
JCL
Rank
TCL
Rank
SL
Rank
Name NAS APA
Award/Pres
Eponym
24 -- 22 6.5 Pavlov, Ivan P. -- --/-- Pavlovian, Pavlovian Conditioning
25 48 24.5 67 Mischel, Walter -- 1982/--
26 100 7 51 Harlow, Harry F. 1951 1960/1958
27 67 27 51 Hilgard, Ernest R. 1948 1967/1949
27 10 61 -- Guilford, J. P. 1954 1964/1950 Guilford-Martin personnel inventory
28 14 70.5 31 Bruner, Jerome S. -- 1962/1965
30 39 16 97 Kohlberg, Lawrence -- --/-- Kohlberg stages of moral development
31 93 13 31 Seligman, Martin E.P. -- --/1998
32 59 71 31 Neisser, Ulric 1984 --/--
33 11 -- 67 Campbell, Donald T. 1973 1970/1975 Campbells design approach
34 30 8 -- Brown, Roger 1972 --/--
35 -- 21 39.5 Zajonc, R.B. -- 1978/-- Zajonc social facilitation
36 32.5 47.5 -- Tulving, Endel 1988 1983/--
37 32.5 -- 24 Simon, Herbert A. 1953 1969/--
38 -- 28 39.5 Chomsky, Noam 1972 1984/--
39 57 44.5 -- Jones, Edward E. -- 1977/-- Jones correspondent inference theory
40 9 -- 97 Osgood, Charles, E. 1972 1960/1963 Osgoods transfer surface
41 74 31 97 Asch, Solomon E. -- 1967/-- Asch situation
42 -- 15 67 Bower, Gordon H. 1973 1979/--
43 72 35 -- Kelley, Harold H. 1978 1971/-- Kelleys attribution theory
44 -- 64 24 Sperry, Roger W. 1960 1971/--
45 -- -- 14.5 Tolman, Edward C. 1937 1957/1937 Tolmans pruposive behaviorism
46 -- 12 67 Milgram, Stanley -- --/-- Milgrams obedience studies
47 28.5 56 97 Jensen, Arthur R. -- --/--
48 15 -- -- Cronbach, Lee J. 1974 1973/1957 Cronbachs Coefficient Alpha
49 55 -- 31 Bowlby, John -- 1989/--
50 -- -- 19 Kohler, Wolfgang 1947 1956/1959 Kohlers prism experiments
Final
Rank
JCL
Rank
TCL
Rank
SL
Rank
Name NAS APA
Award/Pres
Eponym
51 49 -- 39.5 Wechsler, David -- --/-- Weschler adult intelligence scale
52 27 -- -- Stevens, S.S. 1946 1960/-- Stevens power law
53 21 43 -- Wolpe, Joseph -- --/--
54 41 -- -- Broadbent, D.E. 1970 1975/-- Broadbents filter model
55 56 -- -- Shepard, Roger N. 1977 1976/-- Kruskel-Shepard Scaling
56 61 -- 97 Posner, Michael I. 1981 1980/--
57 76 81.5 -- Newcomb, Theodore M. 1974 1976/1956 Newcombs attraction studies
58 -- 20 51 Loftus, Elizabeth F. -- --/--
59 -- 26 97 Ekman, Paul -- 1991/--
60 -- 24.5 51 Sternberg, Robert J. -- --/--
61 -- -- 39.5 Lashley, Karl S . 1930 --/1929 Lashley's jumping stand,
62 66 -- 51 Spence, Kenneth 1955 1956/--
63 38 -- -- Deutsch, Morton -- 1987/-- Deutsch illusion
64 18 -- -- Rotter, Jullian B. -- 1988/-- Rotter locus of control scale
65 -- 39 97 Lorenz, Konrad 1966 --/--
66 23 -- -- Underwood, Benton J. 1970 1973/--
67 -- 55 67 Adler, Alfred -- -- Adlerian
68 44 -- 97 Rutter, Michael -- 1995/--
69 -- -- 24 Luria, Alexander R. 1968 --/-- Luria-Nebraska Neurosychological
Battery
70 68 -- 67 Maccoby, Eleanor E. 1993 1988/--
71 86 70.5 51 Plomin, Robert -- --/--
72.5 -- -- 67 Hall, G. Stanley 1915 --/1924 &
1892
Halls theory of interpersonal zones
72.5 -- -- 67 Terman, Lewis M. 1928 --/1923 Terman -McNemar Test of Mental
Ability
74.5 -- -- 31 Gibson, Eleanor J. 1971 1968/--
74.5 -- -- 31 Meehl, Paul E . 1987 1958/1962
Final
Rank
JCL
Rank
TCL
Rank
SL
Rank
Name NAS APA
Award/Pres
Eponym
76 42 75 -- Berkowitz, Leonard -- --/--
77 64 -- 97 Estes, William K. 1963 1962/--
78 -- 32 -- Aronson, Eliot -- 1999/--
79 -- 33 -- Janis, Irving L. -- 1981/--
80 -- 34 -- Lazarus, Richard S. -- 1989/--
81 -- 68 -- Cannon, W. Gary 1914 --/-- Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
82 17 -- -- Edwards, A.L. -- --/-- Edwards personal preference schedule
83 -- -- 19 Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich -- --/-- Vygotsky test
84 22 -- -- Rosenthal, Robert -- --/-- Rosenthal effect
85 25 -- -- Rokeach, Milton -- --/-- Rokeach value survey
88.5 97 Garcia, John 1983 1979/-- Garcia Effect
88.5 -- -- 97 Gibson, James J. 1967 1961/-- Gibson theory of space perception
88.5 -- 97 Rumelhart, David 1991 1996/-- Rumelhart-Lindsay-Norman process
model
88.5 97 Thurston, L.L. 1938 /1933 Thurston Attitude Scale
88.5 -- -- 97 Washburn, Margarete 1931 /1921 Cannon-Washburn experiment
88.5 -- -- 97 Woodworth, Robert 1921 --/1914 Woodworth personal data sheet
93.5 -- -- 51 Boring, Edwin G. 1932 /1928
93.5 -- -- 51 Dewey, John 1910 --/1899
93.5 -- -- 51 Tversky, Amos 1985 1982/--
93.5 -- -- 51 Wundt, Wilhelm 1909 --/-- Wundts emotional laws
96 31 -- -- Witkin, Herman A. -- --/-- Witkin field independence
97 -- -- 21 Ainsworth, Mary D. -- 1989/--
98 77 -- 51 Mowrer, O. Hobart -- --/1954
99 45 -- 97 Freud, Anna -- --/--
Errata. (2003). Review of General Psychology, 7, 37.
I note two errors in Haggbloom et al's list of eminent psychologists. One is the appearance of the name
of W. Gary Cannon, a recently-deceased psychologist, who was neither a member of the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) nor associated with the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion. These were instead the
accomplishments of the great American physiologist, Walter B. Cannon, who made important contributions to
psychology. A second error involving the name of Cannon concerns the entry for an individual identified as
Margarete [sic] Washburn whose accomplishments were those of Margaret F. Washburn. Haggbloom et al
credit her with an eponym for the Cannon-Washburn experiment on the nature of hunger sensations (Cannon,
W.B., & Washburn, A.L., 1912, An explanation of hunger. American Journal of Physiology, 29, 441-454.). The
Washburn of this famous experiment was A.L. Washburn, and the eponym memorializes his heroic contribution
to this experiment, not Margaret F. Washburn's. Consequently, a reassessment and possible revision of the list
of Haggbloom et al (2002) is called for. From: Stephen L. Black, Department of Psychology, Bishop's University,
Lennoxville, QC J1M-1Z7, Canada..
The authors thank Stephen L. Black, Bishop's University, for identifying our errors and especially for
drawing our attention to the mis-attributed Cannon-Washburn eponym. In Table 4 on page 147, the name W.
Gary Cannon should in fact be W. B. Cannon. Also, the eponym "Cannon-Washburn experiment" was
incorrectly attributed to Margaret Washburn rather than A. L. Washburn. Correcting this error (a) removes
Margaret Washburn from the list, (b), moves each name below Washburn up one place, and (c) moves Leo
Postman from #100 (previously unidentified) to #99. Postman has a ranking of 52 on the Journal Citation List
and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. From: Steven J. Haggbloom, Department of Psychology,
Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101.
See also: Black, S.L. (2003) Cannonical [sic] confusions, an illusory allusion, and more: A critique of Haggbloom
et al.'s list of eminent psychologists (2002). Psychological Reports, 92, 853-857.