PSYCHOLOGIST

Mary Ainsworth

1913 - 1999

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Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (née Salter; December 1, 1913 – March 21, 1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of the attachment theory. She designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and their primary caregiver. A 2002 Review of General Psychology survey ranked Ainsworth as the 97th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Ainsworth has received more than 574,824 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mary Ainsworth is the 70th most popular psychologist (up from 73rd in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,105th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Psychologist.

Mary Ainsworth is most famous for her work on attachment theory. Attachment theory is the idea that the type of attachment a child has with their caregiver will have an effect on their future relationships.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Mary Ainsworth ranks 70 out of 235. Before her are Leon Festinger, Alice Miller, Philip Zimbardo, Margaret Mahler, Ernst Kretschmer, and Otto Rank. After her are Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, George Armitage Miller, Karl Bühler, Edward C. Tolman, and William Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Mary Ainsworth ranks 50. Before her are Jacobo Árbenz, Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, Masanobu Fukuoka, and Charles Trenet. After her are Gert Fröbe, Tito Gobbi, Mehmet Shehu, Xi Zhongxun, Jan Kubiš, and Peter Cushing. Among people deceased in 1999, Mary Ainsworth ranks 32. Before her are Trygve Haavelmo, Henry Way Kendall, Iris Murdoch, Desmond Llewelyn, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, and Oliver Reed. After her are Fred Trump, Hélder Câmara, Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhard Herzberg, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Bernard Buffet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Ainsworth ranks 1,107 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Thaler (1945), Laura Bush (1946), Robert Vaughn (1932), Idina Menzel (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), and George Jung (1942). After her are Richard Serra (1939), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Meir Kahane (1932), Mark Wahlberg (1971), and Andrew Dickson White (1832).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Mary Ainsworth ranks 23. Before her are Martin Seligman (1942), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Stanley Milgram (1933), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Leon Festinger (1919), and Philip Zimbardo (1933). After her are George Armitage Miller (1920), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), Jean Tatlock (1914), G. Stanley Hall (1846), and Walter Bradford Cannon (1871).

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