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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 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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  • 300k

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  • 53.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, James J. Gibson ranks 146 out of 183Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, James J. Gibson ranks 119Before 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 88Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 3,065 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 52Before 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).