1904 - 1979
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 304,444 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James J. Gibson is the 146th most popular psychologist (down from 136th in 2019), the 3,065th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,744th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Psychologist.
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Among psychologists, James J. Gibson ranks 146 out of 183. Before him are J. P. Guilford, Roberto Assagioli, Wilfred Bion, Benjamin Libet, Jordan Peterson, and Raymond Moody. After him are Bluma Zeigarnik, Rensis Likert, Julian Rotter, Fritz Heider, Lisbeth Palme, and Kurt Goldstein.
1897 - 1987
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 140
1888 - 1974
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 141
1897 - 1979
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 142
1916 - 2007
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 143
1962 - Present
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 144
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 145
1904 - 1979
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 146
1900 - 1988
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 147
1903 - 1981
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 148
1916 - 2014
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 149
1896 - 1988
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 150
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 151
1878 - 1965
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 152
Among people born in 1904, James J. Gibson ranks 119. Before him are Franz Kutschera, Christian-Jaque, Wang Ming, Achille Varzi, Lidia Zamenhof, and Tevfik Esenç. After him are William L. Shirer, Ralph Bunche, Ivar Ballangrud, Seán MacBride, Yulii Khariton, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg. Among people deceased in 1979, James J. Gibson ranks 88. Before him are Ahmad Zahir, Dolores Costello, Victoria Ocampo, Wilfred Bion, Waldemar de Brito, and Marcel L'Herbier. After him are Catherine Hessling, Santos Urdinarán, Léonide Massine, Immanuel Velikovsky, August Heissmeyer, and Walther Gerlach.
1904 - 1944
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 113
1904 - 1994
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 114
1904 - 1974
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 115
1904 - 1948
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 116
1904 - 1942
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 117
1904 - 1992
HPI: 53.89
Rank: 118
1904 - 1979
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 119
1904 - 1993
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 120
1904 - 1971
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1969
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 122
1904 - 1988
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 123
1904 - 1996
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 124
1904 - 1954
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 125
1946 - 1979
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 82
1903 - 1979
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 83
1890 - 1979
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 84
1897 - 1979
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 85
1913 - 1979
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 86
1888 - 1979
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 87
1904 - 1979
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 88
1900 - 1979
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 89
1900 - 1979
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 90
1896 - 1979
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 91
1895 - 1979
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 92
1897 - 1979
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 93
1889 - 1979
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 94
Among people born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 3,065 out of 18,182. Before him are Vanessa Williams (1963), James S. Sherman (1855), John Hughes (1950), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), and James Rothman (1950). After him are Dwight F. Davis (1879), Jennifer Beals (1963), Alex North (1910), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Michelle Monaghan (1976), and John Waters (1946).
1963 - Present
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,059
1855 - 1912
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,060
1950 - 2009
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,061
1918 - 2008
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,062
1923 - 2008
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,063
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 3,064
1904 - 1979
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 3,065
1879 - 1945
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 3,066
1963 - Present
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 3,067
1910 - 1991
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 3,068
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 3,069
1976 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 3,070
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 3,071
Among psychologists born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 52. Before him are Arnold Gesell (1880), David Ausubel (1918), Stanley Schachter (1922), J. P. Guilford (1897), Benjamin Libet (1916), and Raymond Moody (1944). After him are Rensis Likert (1903), Julian Rotter (1916), Brian Weiss (1944), Gustave Gilbert (1911), James Hillman (1926), and Michael Gazzaniga (1939).
1880 - 1961
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 46
1918 - 2008
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 47
1922 - 1997
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 48
1897 - 1987
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 49
1916 - 2007
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 50
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 51
1904 - 1979
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 52
1903 - 1981
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 53
1916 - 2014
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 54
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 55
1911 - 1977
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 56
1926 - 2011
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 57
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 58