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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 640,491 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Cattell is the 52nd most popular psychologist (down from 44th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 421st 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 52 out of 183Before him are Philip Zimbardo, Max Wertheimer, Stanley Milgram, Geert Hofstede, Solomon Asch, and Fritz Perls. After him are Sabina Spielrein, Alexander Luria, Wolfgang Köhler, Martin Seligman, Sándor Ferenczi, and Leon Festinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Raymond Cattell ranks 22Before him are Vasily Grossman, Felix Bloch, Marcel Lefebvre, Arthur Koestler, Artem Mikoyan, and Raymond Aron. After him are Guillermo Stábile, Emilio Segrè, Władysław Gomułka, Max Schmeling, Dalton Trumbo, and Franz Ziereis. Among people deceased in 1998, Raymond Cattell ranks 15Before him are Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Octavio Paz, Alan Shepard, Niklas Luhmann, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, Frederick Reines, Otto Kretschmer, Vasily Arkhipov, and Alfred Schnittke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Cattell ranks 533 out of 7,765Before him are Diana Rigg (1938), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Walter Raleigh (1554), Norman Haworth (1883), Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784), and Richard Griffiths (1947). After him are J. Bruce Ismay (1862), James III of Scotland (1451), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), Chaim Herzog (1918), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), and Thomas Hardy (1840).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

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