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This is a list of famous Jewish American Psychologists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

• Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
• Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
• Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
• Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
• Paul Ekman, facial expressions
• Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
• Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
• Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis
• Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
• Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist
• Israel Goldiamond, behavioral psychologist and a founder of behavior modification
• Edith S. Lisansky Gomberg, clinical psychologist & alcoholism researcher
• Jeffrey Guterman, counselor
• Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
• Irving Janis, social psychologist
• Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of Primal Therapy
• Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2002)
• Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
• Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
• Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, and founder of Recovery International
• Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
• Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
• Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
• Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
• Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
• Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
• Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
• Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
• David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
• Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
• Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
• Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
• Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
• Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
• David Wechsler, intelligence testing
• George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
• Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist