PSYCHOLOGIST

Lawrence Kohlberg

1927 - 1987

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Lawrence Kohlberg (; October 25, 1927 – January 17, 1987) was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development. He served as a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Chicago and at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Even though it was considered unusual in his era, he decided to study the topic of moral judgment, extending Jean Piaget's account of children's moral development from 25 years earlier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Kohlberg has received more than 1,052,107 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Lawrence Kohlberg is the 37th most popular psychologist (down from 27th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from United States (down from 298th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Psychologist.

Lawrence Kohlberg is most famous for his theory of moral development. He believed that there are six stages of moral development, each of which is based on a different moral principle.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lawrence Kohlberg ranks 37 out of 235. Before him are Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, and Eric Berne. After him are Hans Eysenck, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, and Elton Mayo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Lawrence Kohlberg ranks 19. Before him are Turgut Özal, K. Alex Müller, László Kubala, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Kim Young-sam, and Sidney Poitier. After him are Albert Uderzo, Janet Leigh, Niklas Luhmann, Harry Belafonte, Simone Veil, and Hubert de Givenchy. Among people deceased in 1987, Lawrence Kohlberg ranks 18. Before him are Thomas Sankara, Walter Houser Brattain, Andrey Kolmogorov, Maria von Trapp, William P. Murphy, and Pola Negri. After him are James Baldwin, Fahri Korutürk, Jascha Heifetz, Lino Ventura, Lee Byung-chul, and Lee Marvin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Kohlberg ranks 533 out of 20,380. Before him are Alice Cooper (1948), Chester A. Arthur (1829), Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Tom Clancy (1947), and Alvin Toffler (1928). After him are Tennessee Williams (1911), Ferid Murad (1936), Anthony Perkins (1932), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Martin Cooper (1928), and Jeff Bridges (1949).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Lawrence Kohlberg ranks 13. Before him are Edward Thorndike (1874), B. F. Skinner (1904), Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), and Jerome Bruner (1915). After him are Milton H. Erickson (1901), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Albert Ellis (1913), Martin Seligman (1942), Aaron T. Beck (1921), and Stanley Milgram (1933).

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