PSYCHOLOGIST

John Money

1921 - 2006

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John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender. Believing that gender identity was malleable within the first two years of life, Money advocated for the surgical "normalization" of the genitalia of intersex infants. Money advanced the use of more accurate terminology in sex research, coining the terms gender role and sexual orientation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Money has received more than 3,751,231 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). John Money is the 110th most popular psychologist (down from 96th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Psychologist.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, John Money ranks 110 out of 235. Before him are Michael Balint, Auguste Forel, Jon Kabat-Zinn, R. D. Laing, Édouard Claparède, and William McDougall. After him are Heinz Kohut, Robert Cialdini, Frederic Bartlett, Adolf Bastian, Aleksei N. Leontiev, and Robert Sternberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, John Money ranks 104. Before him are Raymond Goethals, Neslişah Sultan, Nino Manfredi, Hans Albert, Jean-Marie Balestre, and Mary Douglas. After him are Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, James Clavell, Hannah Szenes, Virgilio Barco Vargas, and Oskar Gröning. Among people deceased in 2006, John Money ranks 82. Before him are Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Milan Babić, Lillian Asplund, and Billy Preston. After him are Tina Aumont, María Capovilla, Pietro Rava, Jack Warden, Anna Moffo, and Paul Marcinkus.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, John Money ranks 17 out of 303. Before him are Helen Clark (1950), Chris Amon (1943), Burt Munro (1899), Martin Campbell (1943), Kiri Te Kanawa (1944), and Lucy Lawless (1968). After him are Jane Campion (1954), Rosé (1997), Karl Urban (1972), Bruce Spence (1945), Nancy Wake (1912), and Marton Csokas (1966).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In New Zealand

Among psychologists born in New Zealand, John Money ranks 1. 

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