The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from Turkey
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 183 Psychologists, 1 of which were born in Turkey. This makes Turkey the birth place of the 21st most number of Psychologists behind Australia and Croatia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Turkish Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Muzafer Sherif (1906 - 1988)
With an HPI of 60.47, Muzafer Sherif is the most famous Turkish Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Muzafer Sherif (born Muzafer Şerif Başoğlu; July 29, 1906 – October 16, 1988) was a Turkish-American social psychologist. He helped develop social judgment theory and realistic conflict theory. Sherif was a founder of modern social psychology who developed several unique and powerful techniques for understanding social processes, particularly social norms and social conflict. Many of his original contributions to social psychology have been absorbed into the field so fully that his role in the development and discovery has disappeared. Other reformulations of social psychology have taken his contributions for granted, and re-presented his ideas as new.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as psychologists born between 1906 and 1906. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased psychologists include Muzafer Sherif.
