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PSYCHOLOGIST

Paul Ekman

1934 - Today

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Paul Ekman (born February 15, 1934) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco who is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ekman has received more than 1,234,081 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Paul Ekman is the 32nd most popular psychologist (down from 31st in 2019), the 399th most popular biography from United States (down from 385th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Psychologist.

Paul Ekman is most famous for his work on facial expressions. He was a pioneer in the study of facial expressions and developed the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) that allows researchers to categorize facial expressions into six basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Paul Ekman ranks 32 out of 183Before him are Alfred Binet, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, and Jerome Bruner. After him are Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, Gordon Allport, Hans Eysenck, John Bowlby, and Hermann Rorschach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Paul Ekman ranks 18Before him are Leonid Kravchuk, Nana Mouskouri, Daniel Kahneman, Shirley MacLaine, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, and Jane Goodall. After him are Sydney Pollack, Vavá, Ulrike Meinhof, Empress Michiko, Alexei Leonov, and Manuel Noriega.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Ekman ranks 399 out of 18,182Before him are Shirley Temple (1928), Henry Clay (1777), Jodie Foster (1962), Brian De Palma (1940), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), and Dianne Wiest (1946). After him are Sydney Pollack (1934), Franklin Pierce (1804), Sylvia Plath (1932), Howard Gardner (1943), J. Paul Getty (1892), and Stevie Wonder (1950).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Paul Ekman ranks 11Before him are John B. Watson (1878), B. F. Skinner (1904), Edward Thorndike (1874), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Jerome Bruner (1915). After him are Howard Gardner (1943), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Gordon Allport (1897), Albert Ellis (1913), Aaron T. Beck (1921), and Alfred Kinsey (1894).

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