PSYCHOLOGIST

Raymond Cattell

1905 - 1998

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Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure. His work also explored the basic dimensions of personality and temperament, the range of cognitive abilities, the dynamic dimensions of motivation and emotion, the clinical dimensions of abnormal personality, patterns of group syntality and social behavior, applications of personality research to psychotherapy and learning theory, predictors of creativity and achievement, and many multivariate research methods including the refinement of factor analytic methods for exploring and measuring these domains. Cattell authored, co-authored, or edited almost 60 scholarly books, more than 500 research articles, and over 30 standardized psychometric tests, questionnaires, and rating scales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Cattell has received more than 662,403 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Raymond Cattell is the 47th most popular psychologist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 533rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Psychologist.

Raymond Cattell is most famous for his 16 personality factors.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Raymond Cattell ranks 47 out of 235. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, Alfred Kinsey, Max Wertheimer, and Sándor Ferenczi. After him are Princess Marie Bonaparte, Sabina Spielrein, Bruno Bettelheim, Albert Ellis, Kurt Koffka, and Martin Seligman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Raymond Cattell ranks 27. Before him are Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, Emilio Segrè, Gerard Kuiper, and Władysław Gomułka. After him are Carl Gustav Hempel, Dalton Trumbo, Ulf von Euler, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Marian Rejewski, and Max Schmeling. Among people deceased in 1998, Raymond Cattell ranks 14. Before him are Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, Falco, Frederick Reines, and Tameo Ide.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Cattell ranks 519 out of 8,785. Before him are Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Archer Martin (1910), Peter Gabriel (1950), and Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751). After him are Mike Oldfield (1953), John Hicks (1904), Richard Griffiths (1947), William Kidd (1645), Robert Edwards (1925), and Mary Anning (1799).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Raymond Cattell ranks 3. Before him are Donald Winnicott (1896), and John Bowlby (1907). After him are Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Havelock Ellis (1859), Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).

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