List of women psychologists

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Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	18991998
	19121975
	19012001
	19131999	Developmental psych.	Known for her work in early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation design, as well as her work in the development of attachment theory.
	19172006	Clinical psych.	Recognized as the first clinical psychologist in the Philippines.
	19012002
	1953present
	19081988
	1952present	Counseling psych.
	?present
	19081996
	19082001	Psychometrics	Introduced concept of responsibility to the test taker. 1972 president of the American Psychological Association, the third woman to be president. In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science.
	1942present
	18921974
	19032002		The first contemporary theorist to develop appraisal theory of emotions, which moved the direction of emotion theory away from "feeling" theories and "behaviorist" theories and toward the cognitive approach.
	1945present	Counseling psych.	Primarily recognized for her efforts in developing the area of multicultural counseling.
	19462013
	19322015
Lauren Y. Atlas	fl. 2000s	Neuropsychology	Studying pain and psychopharmacology
	19201992
	19272005	Socionics	Founder of socionics, the pseudoscientific theory of information processing and personality types.
	19111988

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	18771952
	19312009
	1954present
	18561943
	1949present
	18981977
	18971995
	1951present


	18831970

	18991994		Most notable for her contributions toward the Berkeley Growth Study in which she studied the relation between the heights of adults and children, developing a tool that helped pediatricians examine the abnormalities of their patients' heights.

	1948present
	19442014		Known for her works in androgyny and gender studies.
	1946present
			Better known for her poetry
	18881977
	19312001
	18901970
	19092013
	?present
		Clinical psych.
	1847–1931	Child development
	18861996
	1945present
Virginia Braun	1972–present	critical psychology	Best known for her contributions to qualitative methodology, especially Thematic Analysis with collaborator Victoria Clarke.
	19262015
	19031988
	18961969
	1952present
	19142004
	18811966
	19272013
	19311996
	?present
	1956present
	18971986
	19021992
	1949present
	1960present
	19011995
	19452020
	18931974
	19021943

	1951present
		Cognitive science

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	18791950
	18831952

	?present
	1975present	Evolutionary Psychology
	18891985
		Social psych.
	1988present
	1981present	Evolutionary psychology
	19102000
	1937present		Recognized as an expert in posttraumatic stress disorder. She developed prolonged exposure therapy.
	18891941
	1944present	Community psych.
	1942present
Marjorie Franklin	1887–1975	psychoanalysis
		Social psych.
	19081958
	18951982		The youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, considered to be one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology.
	?present
	19092003

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	1953present
	18681933


	19331993
	19382020
	19172020
	19102002		Known for the study of perception in infants and toddlers and for the "visual cliff" experiment in which precocial animals, and crawling human infants, showed their ability to perceive depth by avoiding the deep side of a virtual cliff.
	?present	Feminist
	18781972	Industrial/ organizational	The first industrial/organizational psychologist, who specialised in time and motion studies. Her life is depicted in the semi-autobiographical works of her children, Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes.
	1936present
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela	1955–present	Psychoanalysis Social psych.	Best known for her work in reconciliation, and her award-winning book, A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
	1950present
	18861959	Developmental psych.	Known for her development of novel measurement techniques, including event sampling and the Draw-A-Man test.
	1961present
	19242014
	19232024

	1979present
	?present
	1940present
	19041984
	1963present
	19321977

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	1971present
	19432018
	18531918
	?present	Developmental psychology	One of the founding directors of the longitudinal Pacific Islands Families Study.
	19252001		The first woman director, as well as the first African-American director, of the Peace Corps.
	19001985
	18741940		Developed "The Perky Effect", which examines the link between mental imagery and visual perception.


	19222015
	1972present	Moral psych.	Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics.
	1921present
	1958present

	18951934		First African-American woman to earn a PhD in psychology. She is known for her studies involving the possible differences in the personality and self-esteem of African-American youth attending segregated versus integrated schools.
	18961976
	?present

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	19182007
	1952present
	18861970
	18981935
	?present		Psychology professor. Her specialty is early language acquisition.
	?present	Clinical psych.	Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology division at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
	18981993
	1946present
	1935present

	19041991
	19282015
	1946–present	Health psych. Critical psych.
	1955present	Clinical psychology

	1956present
	1955present
	18761964
	1975present
	18471914
	1981present
	1943present

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	19302018
	19431987
	19391998
	18711939		Studied sensation and perception and theorized that one's consciousness was responsible for their own motor activities. She was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology.

	19392015
	1953present	Behavioural psychology
	19162004
	18951952
	1951present	Psychoanalysis
	19612012
	19122000
	1924–2025
	1954present
	18541923
	1964present
	19041997
	18741947		Noted for her work in gender studies. She was the first to research gender differences in a truly scientific and experimental way.
	1928present	Clinical psychology
	19172018
	?2015
	19152014
	1944present		She is known for her research on consensual and abusive sexual relationships and their influence on psychological well-being, and creation of culturally appropriate measures. She was also the first African American woman in the state of California to receive a license to practice psychology.
	?present
	?present

Name	Lifetime	Field	Comments
	1969present
	1950present	Psychotherapy
	1952present	Feminist psychology	Research into the experiences of token individuals - those in a career where they are not of the traditional gender. including the difference between the experiences of women in traditionally masculine careers versus men in traditionally feminine careers, and the impact of race on experiences of women in traditionally masculine careers.
	19452001
	19011988		Most notable for her discovery of the Zeigarnik effect, where forgotten incomplete tasks are better remembered than complete ones.