The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 27th most number of Psychologists behind Latvia, and Italy.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Bluma Zeigarnik (1900 - 1988)
With an HPI of 57.10, Bluma Zeigarnik is the most famous Lithuanian Psychologist. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Bluma Zeigarnik (Russian: Блю́ма Ву́льфовна Зейга́рник, IPA: [ˈblʲumə ˈvulʲfəvnə zʲɪjˈɡarnʲɪk]; 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1900 – 24 February 1988) was a Soviet psychologist of Lithuanian origin, a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and the so-called Vygotsky Circle. She contributed to the establishment of experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union in the post-World War II period. In the 1920s she conducted a study on memory, in which she compared memory in relation to interrupted and completed tasks. She had found that interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones; this is now known as the Zeigarnik effect. From 1931 she worked in the Soviet Union. She is considered one of the co-founders of the Department of Psychology at the Moscow State University. In 1983 she received the Lewin Memorial Award for her psychological research.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lithuanian psychologists born between 1900 and 1900. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lithuanian psychologists include Bluma Zeigarnik.
