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 eminent psychologists of the twentieth century in 2002 by the Review of General Psychology. His empirical and theoretical work helped to restart the study of emotion and non-verbal communication in the field of psychology, and introduced new quantitative frameworks which researchers could use to do so. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ekman has received more than 1,327,848 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Ekman is the 34th most popular psychologist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from United States (down from 399th 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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  • 34

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  • 10.80

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  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Paul Ekman ranks 34 out of 235. Before him are Alfred Binet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, and Gordon Allport. After him are Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hans Eysenck, Donald Winnicott, and John Bowlby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Paul Ekman ranks 27. Before him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Richard, Stjepan Mesić, Shirley MacLaine, Empress Michiko, and Manuel Noriega. After him are Alan Bates, Sydney Pollack, Alexei Leonov, Niklaus Wirth, Larisa Latynina, and Ronald Wayne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Ekman ranks 478 out of 20,380. Before him are Jodie Foster (1962), John Tyler (1790), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Paul Walker (1973), Kevin Spacey (1959), and Shirley Temple (1928). After him are John Kerry (1943), Chuck Jones (1912), Jerome Bruner (1915), Gwen Stefani (1969), David Duke (1950), and George Foreman (1949).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Paul Ekman ranks 11. Before him are John B. Watson (1878), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Edward Thorndike (1874), B. F. Skinner (1904), Howard Gardner (1943), and Gordon Allport (1897). After him are Jerome Bruner (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Albert Ellis (1913), and Martin Seligman (1942).

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