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PSYCHOLOGIST

Jaak Panksepp

1943 - 2017

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Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaak Panksepp has received more than 252,660 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jaak Panksepp is the 197th most popular psychologist, the 141st most popular biography from Estonia and the 2nd most popular Estonian Psychologist.

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  • 15

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  • 3.89

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  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jaak Panksepp ranks 197 out of 183Before him are Nancy Chodorow, Neal E. Miller, Gordon Neufeld, Carol Dweck, Théodore Flournoy, and August Dvorak. After him are Anne Treisman, C. George Boeree, Joseph Nicolosi, Dan Ariely, Uta Frith, and Robin Dunbar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jaak Panksepp ranks 445Before him are Marília Pêra, John Miles, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Christl Haas, Isabel-Clara Simó, and Billy Cunningham. After him are Bobby Vee, Gil Gerard, Little Eva, Mikhail Zhelev, Urszula Dudziak, and He Guoqiang. Among people deceased in 2017, Jaak Panksepp ranks 358Before him are Betty Cuthbert, Joseph Bologna, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Aleksei Petrenko, Michael Ogio, and Girija Devi. After him are Clifford Husbands, Anne-Marie Colchen, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Türkân Akyol, Alina Janowska, and Ueli Steck.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jaak Panksepp ranks 141 out of 310Before him are Arnold Luhaäär (1905), Emma Asson (1889), Vladas Mikėnas (1910), Voldemar Väli (1903), Ilmar Kullam (1922), and Ivo Linna (1949). After him are Knudåge Riisager (1897), Osvald Käpp (1905), Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851), Roman Steinberg (1900), Jaan Talts (1944), and Lepo Sumera (1950).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among psychologists born in Estonia, Jaak Panksepp ranks 2Before him are Wolfgang Köhler (1887).