PSYCHOLOGIST

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

1934 - 2021

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Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi ( MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mee-HAH-yee, Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Róbert, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ; 29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has received more than 3,233,535 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the 30th most popular psychologist (up from 60th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Psychologist.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is most famous for his work in the field of psychology, specifically in the study of happiness. He is most well-known for his theory of flow, which he defines as a state of total absorption in an activity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ranks 30 out of 235. Before him are Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, Alfred Binet, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, and Eric Berne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ranks 21. Before him are Leonid Kravchuk, Vavá, Jane Goodall, Paco Rabanne, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Ulrike Meinhof. After him are Pierre Richard, Stjepan Mesić, Shirley MacLaine, Empress Michiko, Manuel Noriega, and Paul Ekman. Among people deceased in 2021, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ranks 11. Before him are Albert Bandura, Mikis Theodorakis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, F. W. de Klerk, Chun Doo-hwan, and Christopher Plummer. After him are Charlie Watts, Isamu Akasaki, Carlos Menem, Bernie Madoff, Desmond Tutu, and Raffaella Carrà.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ranks 10 out of 700. Before him are Rüstem Pasha (1500), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63), Valens (328), Franjo Tuđman (1922), János Kádár (1912), and Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711). After him are Pope John IV (600), Pope Caius (250), Laura Antonelli (1941), Saint Marinus (275), Leopold Ružička (1887), and Crispus (305).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Croatia

Among psychologists born in Croatia, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ranks 1. 

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