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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