1906 - 1988
Muzafer Sherif (born Muzafer Şerif Başoğlu; July 29, 1906 – October 16, 1988) was a Turkish-American social psychologist. He helped develop social judgment theory and realistic conflict theory. Sherif was a founder of modern social psychology who developed several unique and powerful techniques for understanding social processes, particularly social norms and social conflict. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muzafer Sherif has received more than 322,375 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Muzafer Sherif is the 83rd most popular psychologist (down from 82nd in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 373rd in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Psychologist.
Muzafer Sherif is most famous for his work on the Robbers Cave experiment, where he divided a group of boys into two groups and observed their interactions.
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Among psychologists, Muzafer Sherif ranks 83 out of 183. Before him are Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, and Walter Bradford Cannon. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, Karl Bühler, Vladimir Bekhterev, Benjamin Bloom, Donald O. Hebb, and Antonio Damasio.
1923 - 2010
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 77
1905 - 1981
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 78
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 79
1921 - 2007
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 80
1917 - 1998
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 81
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 82
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 83
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 84
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 85
1857 - 1927
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 86
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 87
1904 - 1985
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 88
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 89
Among people born in 1906, Muzafer Sherif ranks 64. Before him are Ettore Majorana, Vera Menchik, James Hadley Chase, Fredric Brown, Anthony Mann, and André Weil. After him are Douglas McGregor, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Heinz Harmel, John Dickson Carr, Nelson Goodman, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1988, Muzafer Sherif ranks 28. Before him are Clifford D. Simak, Luis Barragán, André Frédéric Cournand, Tibor Sekelj, Paul Grice, and Klaus Fuchs. After him are Franz Josef Strauss, Farida of Egypt, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Raj Kapoor, Hermann Graf, and Richard S. Castellano.
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 58
1906 - 1944
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 59
1906 - 1985
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 60
1906 - 1972
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 61
1906 - 1967
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 62
1906 - 1998
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 63
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 64
1906 - 1964
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 65
1906 - 1931
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 66
1906 - 2000
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 67
1906 - 1977
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 68
1906 - 1998
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 69
1906 - 1969
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 70
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 22
1902 - 1988
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 23
1895 - 1988
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 24
1912 - 1988
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 25
1913 - 1988
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 26
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 27
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 28
1915 - 1988
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 29
1921 - 1988
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 30
1905 - 1988
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 31
1924 - 1988
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 32
1912 - 1988
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 33
1933 - 1988
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 34
Among people born in Turkey, Muzafer Sherif ranks 405 out of 1,301. Before him are Anitta (-1700), Gülbahar Hatun (1453), Menua (-900), Ertuğrul Osman (1912), Charalambos (87), and Osman Nuri Pasha (1832). After him are Ephorus (-400), Lucian of Antioch (240), Maria of Antioch (1145), Mimnermus (-670), Eumenes I (-250), and Eumenes III (-200).
1700 BC - 1740 BC
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 399
1453 - 1505
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 400
900 BC - 786 BC
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 401
1912 - 2009
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 402
87 - 202
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 403
1832 - 1900
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 404
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 405
400 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 406
240 - 312
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 407
1145 - 1182
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 408
670 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 409
250 BC - 241 BC
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 410
200 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 411
Among psychologists born in Turkey, Muzafer Sherif ranks 1.