PSYCHOLOGIST

Evelyn Hooker

1907 - 1996

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Evelyn Hooker (; née Gentry, September 2, 1907 – November 18, 1996) was an American psychologist most notable for her 1956 paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered several psychological tests to groups of self-identified male homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts to identify the homosexuals and rate their mental health. The experiment, which other researchers subsequently repeated, found that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, as there was no detectable difference between homosexual and heterosexual men in terms of mental adjustment. Hooker argued that a false correlation between homosexuality and mental illness had formed the basis of classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evelyn Hooker has received more than 167,652 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Evelyn Hooker is the 231st most popular psychologist, the 10,668th most popular biography from United States and the 84th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Evelyn Hooker ranks 231 out of 235. Before her are Joseph Nicolosi, Sherry Turkle, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Cyril Burt, Hans-Werner Gessmann, and Arthur Jensen. After her are Robert S. Woodworth, Dan Ariely, Richard Wiseman, Leda Cosmides, Melanie Joy, and David McNeill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Evelyn Hooker ranks 367. Before her are Bill Holland, Francis Frederick, Rolf Jacobsen, Kate Smith, Gumercindo Gómez, and Kalle Jalkanen. After her are Alan Reed, Rudolf Krause, Arlene Francis, Bob Steele, Giovanni Delise, and Károly Bartha. Among people deceased in 1996, Evelyn Hooker ranks 319. Before her are Jean-Claude Piumi, Pierre Jaccoud, Tommy Lawton, Mario Savio, Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, and Peter Glenville. After her are Sultan Rahi, Zdeněk Škrland, Pat Brown, Swami Rama, Sverre Sørsdal, and Willi Heeks.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evelyn Hooker ranks 10,668 out of 20,380. Before her are G. William Miller (1925), Marion Zinderstein (1896), Ted Demme (1963), Roy Clark (1933), Merle Travis (1917), and Tom Price (1933). After her are Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), Kay Lenz (1953), John DiMaggio (1968), Dave Coulier (1959), Eric Mabius (1971), and Brewster H. Shaw (1945).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Evelyn Hooker ranks 84. Before her are August Dvorak (1894), Jonathan Kellerman (1949), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), Sherry Turkle (1948), Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847), and Arthur Jensen (1923). After her are Robert S. Woodworth (1869), Dan Ariely (1967), Leda Cosmides (1957), and David McNeill (null).

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