List of women psychologists

This is a list of women psychologists.

Name Lifetime Nationality Comments Reference(s)
Mary Ainsworth 1913–1999 American-Canadian Developmental psychologist known for her work in early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation design, as well as her work in the development of attachment theory. [1]
Estefania Aldaba-Lim 1917-2006 Filipina Recognized as the first clinical psychologist in the Philippines. [2]
Lauren Alloy 1953- American
Harlene Anderson 1942- American
Magda Arnold 1903–2002 American Psychologist and the first contemporary theorist to develop appraisal theory of emotions, which moved the direction of emotion theory away from "feeling" theories (e.g. James-Lange theory) and "behaviorist" theories (e.g. Cannon-Bard theory) and toward the cognitive approach. [3][4]
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė 1927-2005 Lithuanian Founder of socionics, the pseudoscientific theory of information processing and personality types.
Virginia Axline 1911–1988 American
Renée Baillargeon 1954- Canadian-American
Deirdre Barrett American
Lisa Feldman Barrett American
Diana Baumrind American
Nancy Bayley 1899–1994 American Psychologist 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. [5]
Sandra Bem 1944–2014 American Psychologist known for her works in androgyny and gender studies. [6]
Barbara Bonner American Clinical psychologist
Emily Bushnell American
Ruth Byrne Irish Cognitive scientist
Mary Whiton Calkins 1863–1930 American Philosopher and psychologist, and the first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association. Her career focused on self-psychology and the belief that the conscious self should be the foundation of psychological study. [7][8]
Susan Carey American
Nancy Chodorow American
Lee Anna Clark American
Mamie Phipps Clark 1917–1983 American Psychologist who is most famous for her work with the gendered doll study that exposed the latent racism in young children. She was also used as an expert witness in the Brown v. Board of Education court case. [9]
Suzanne Corkin 1937–2016 American Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Leda Cosmides American Evolutionary psychology
Catharine Cox Miles American
Florence Denmark 1932– American Psychologist and researcher of gender and women's roles. [10]
Helene Deutsch 1884–1982 Austrian-American Psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud, recognized as the first woman analyst to be analyzed by Freud. [11][12]
Jennifer Eberhardt American Social psychologist
Cordelia Fine Canadian-British
Susan Fiske American Social psychologist
Edna Foa 1937– Israeli-American Psychologist recognized as an expert in posttraumatic stress disorder. She developed prolonged exposure therapy. [13]
Donata Francescato 1944- Italian Community psychologist
Barbara Fredrickson American Social psychologist
Anna Freud 1895–1982 Austrian The youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, considered to be one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology. [14]
Susan Gathercole British
Isabel Gauthier American
Eleanor J. Gibson 1910–2002 American Psychologist 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. [15][16][17]
Carol Gilligan American
Florence Goodenough 1886–1959 American Developmental psychologist known for her development of novel measurement techniques, including event sampling and the Draw-A-Man test. [18][19]
Elizabeth Gould American
Germaine Guex 1904-1984 Swiss
Tsuruko Haraguchi 1886-1915 Japanese Columbia University-trained experimental psychologist, recognized as the first Japanese woman to receive a doctorate in any field. [20]
Judith Rich Harris American
Felicitas Heyne 1966 German
Leta Hollingworth 1886–1939 American Psychologist who conducted pioneering work in the early 20th century, making significant contributions in three areas: psychology of women; clinical psychology; and educational psychology. She is best known for her work with exceptional children. [21][22]
Margie Holmes Filipina
Karen Horney 1885–1952 German Psychoanalyst whose theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis questioned some traditional Freudian views. She is credited with founding feminist psychology in response to Freud's theory of penis envy. She also practiced in the United States during her later career. [23][24]
Ruth Winifred Howard 1900–1997 American Psychologist whose main research focused on the development of triplets. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in the area of psychology. She also earned a PhD in child development. [25]
Ethel Dench Puffer Howes 1872–1950 American Psychologist noted for her work on aesthetics. She was one of the first women to receive a PhD from Harvard University. [26]
Bärbel Inhelder 1913-1997 Swiss
Marie Jahoda 1907-2001 Austrian-British Social psychologist
Kay Redfield Jamison American Clinical psychologist
Jaqueline Jesus 1978– Brazilian Psychologist and LGBT activist.
Marcia Johnson American
Virginia Johnson 1925-2013 American Pioneer in sexology, as part of the Masters and Johnson research team.
Mary Cover Jones 1897-1987 American
Mieko Kamiya Japanese
Nancy Kanwisher American
Rachel Kaplan American
Nadeen Kaufman 1945- American
Isabelle Kendig American Clinical psychologist who was the Head Psychologist at St. Elizabeths Hospital. [27][28]
Doreen Kimura 1933-2013 Canadian
Melanie Klein 1882–1960 Austrian-British Psychoanalyst who developed the "play technique" in child psychoanalysis that is widely used in contemporary play therapy, and was instrumental in the science of child psychoanalysis. [29][30]
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 1926–2004 Swiss-American
Christine Ladd-Franklin 1847–1930 American Psychologist noted for her work on theories of color vision. [31]
Ellen Langer American
Averil Leimon British
Jerre Levy American
Marsha Linehan 1943– American Clinical psychologist known for her research into suicide and borderline personality disorder, culminating in her development of dialectical behaviour therapy. [32]
Elizabeth Loftus 1944– American Cognitive psychologist known for her pioneering work on the malleability of memory, including misinformation effect and false memories. [33]
Eleanor Maccoby 1917–2018 American Psychologist noted for her contributions to the fields of developmental psychology and gender studies. [34]
Margaret Mahler Hungarian
Jean Matter Mandler American
Sally-Anne McCormack Australian
Rivka Bertisch Meir American
Alice Miller 1923-2010 Polish-Swiss
Brenda Milner 1918– British-Canadian Neuropsychologist, sometimes referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology". [35]
Maria Montessori 1870–1952 Italian Physician and educator best known for the Montessori education philosophy, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. [36]


Lise Østergaard 1924–1996 Danish Psychologist who became the country's first professor of clinical psychology in 1963. She was later elected to the Danish parliament in 1979, before returning to her position at the University of Copenhagen in 1984. [37]
Linda Papadopoulos 1971- Canadian
Carolyn R. Payton 1925–2001 American Psychologist who was the first woman director, as well as the first African-American director, of the Peace Corps. [38]
Cheves Perky 1874–1940 American Developed "The Perky Effect", which examines the link between mental imagery and visual perception. [39]
Anne Petersen American
Eva Bendix Petersen
LeShawndra Price American
Inez Prosser 1895–1934 American First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. 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. [40][41]
Lorine Pruette 1896-1976 American


Rosalie Rayner 1898-1935 American
Sylvia Rimm 1935- American
Michele Ritterman American
Eleanor Rosch American
Susanna Rubinstein 1847-1914 Austrian
Michelle Ryan British
Jeanne Safer American
Eleanor Saffran American
Virginia Satir American
Deborah Serani American
Francine Shapiro American
Tamara Sher American
Sara Shettleworth American-Canadian
Amy Singer American
Elizabeth Spelke American
Janet Taylor Spence 1923–2015 American Psychologist who spent most of her career researching and contributing towards gender-related issues, especially involving women. [42]
Sabina Spielrein 1885 OS–1942 Russian
Clara Stern 1877-1945 German-American Child developmental psychologist who, with husband William Stern, published findings from their detailed diaries about their three children. [43]
Shelley E. Taylor 1946– American Psychologist noted for her work in social neuroscience. [44]
Sharon Thompson-Schill American
Anne Treisman 1935-2018 English
Reiko True 1933- Japanese-American Psychologist recognized for her efforts to advance mental health services for Asian Americans and other minorities. [45]
Jeanne Tsai American
Magdalen Dorothea Vernon 1901-1991 British
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga 1937- Latvian Latvian-born psychologist who had a decades-long career at the University of Montreal in Canada, before being elected Latvia's first woman president. [46]
Marie-Louise von Franz 1915-1998 Swiss Jungian psychologist
Hedwig von Restorff 1906-1962 German She established the presence of perceptual features as differences by measuring their effect on recall (the von Restorff Effect). [47][48][49][50]
Joan Scott Wallace 1930-2018 American
Margaret Floy Washburn 1871–1939 American Psychologist who 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. [51]
Nicole Weekes American
Helen Thompson Woolley 1874–1947 American Psychologist noted for her work in gender studies. She was the first to research gender differences in a truly scientific and experimental way. [52]
Karen Wynn Canadian-American
Fei Xu 1969- American
Bluma Zeigarnik 1900–1988 Russian Psychologist who is most notable for her experiment called the Zeigarnik effect, a study in which she observed that forgotten incomplete tasks are better remembered than complete ones. [53]
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Anna Freud, considered to be one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology.

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