PSYCHOLOGIST

James J. Gibson

1904 - 1979

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James Jerome Gibson (; January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked him as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James J. Gibson has received more than 323,765 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James J. Gibson is the 158th most popular psychologist (down from 146th in 2019), the 3,438th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,058th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 320k

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  • 53.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, James J. Gibson ranks 158 out of 235. Before him are David Ausubel, Jonathan Haidt, Franz Alexander, Wilfred Bion, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Julian Rotter. After him are Reuven Feuerstein, Arthur Janov, Edvard Moser, Arnold Gesell, Endel Tulving, and Charlotte Bühler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, James J. Gibson ranks 140. Before him are Lippo Hertzka, Antonin Magne, Cecil Beaton, Chishū Ryū, Vilis Lācis, and Luigi Bertolini. After him are Frederick Ashton, Goffredo Petrassi, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Sergei Yutkevich, Pyotr Koshevoy, and Aparicio Méndez. Among people deceased in 1979, James J. Gibson ranks 105. Before him are Agop Dilâçar, Wilfred Bion, Jean Rhys, Helmut Hasse, August Heissmeyer, and Marcel L'Herbier. After him are Dolores Costello, Leonid Bykov, Zhang Guotao, Antun Augustinčić, Fulton J. Sheen, and Dirk Stikker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 3,438 out of 20,380. Before him are Alvin E. Roth (1951), Barbara Kruger (1945), Cicely Tyson (1924), Tyga (1989), Bill Nelson (1942), and Katherine Heigl (1978). After him are Chaka Khan (1953), Jay-Z (1969), Dolores Costello (1903), Henry Darger (1892), Bruce McGill (1950), and Eric Roth (1945).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 54. Before him are Harry Harlow (1905), Rensis Likert (1903), Benjamin Spock (1903), David Ausubel (1918), Jonathan Haidt (1963), and Julian Rotter (1916). After him are Arthur Janov (1924), Arnold Gesell (1880), Stanley Schachter (1922), Benjamin Libet (1916), James Hillman (1926), and Raymond Moody (1944).

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