List of City College of New York People - Psychology

Psychology

  • Solomon Asch 1928 – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
  • Kenneth Clark – CCNY professor who studied attitudes toward race and testified at Brown v. Board of Education
  • Isidor Chein 1932 – minority group identification, co-wrote amicus curiae brief in Brown v. Board of Education
  • Jacob Cohen – psychologist and statistician, developed the coefficient kappa to assess the reliability of ratings of discrete categories of behavior (e.g., diagnoses of mental disorder); expert on factor analysis and regression analysis
  • Morton Deutsch – social psychology, conflict resolution
  • Leonard Eron – expert on the development of aggression
  • Leon Festinger 1939 – social psychologist. Pioneered experimental social psychology, the theory of cognitive dissonance
  • Robert Glaser – educational psychology
  • Henry Gleitman – cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics
  • Arno Gruen – psychologist and psychoanalyst
  • Richard Herrnstein – quantitative analysis of behavior; co-author of The Bell Curve; Harvard professor
  • Richard Lazarus – emotion, stress, and coping
  • Walter Mischel – social and personality psychology
  • Gardner Murphy – professor of psychology at City College
  • Hans Strupp – (attended City College but did not graduate) expert in psychotherapy research
  • Sigmund Tobias – educational psychology, aptitude-treatment interaction; also published on Jewish refugee experience in Shanghai during World War II

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