The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 22nd most number of Psychologists behind Croatia, and Turkey.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Antonio Damasio (b. 1944)
With an HPI of 61.90, Antonio Damasio is the most famous Portuguese Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years. Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness. Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Portuguese psychologists born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Portuguese psychologists include Antonio Damasio.
