PSYCHOLOGIST

Raymond Moody

1944 - Today

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Raymond A. Moody Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life. His research explores personal accounts of subjective phenomena encountered in near-death experiences, particularly those of people who have apparently died but been resuscitated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Moody has received more than 501,504 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Moody is the 175th most popular psychologist (down from 145th in 2019), the 4,133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,022nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 500k

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  • 52.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Raymond Moody ranks 175 out of 235. Before him are Benjamin Libet, Emma Eckstein, Edgar Schein, Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, and Brenda Milner. After him are Boris Cyrulnik, Michael Gazzaniga, Jean Laplanche, Henri Nouwen, Jacques-Alain Miller, and Robert D. Hare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Raymond Moody ranks 317. Before him are Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Haim Saban, Rebecca Horn, Pierre Bachelet, Yitzhak Mordechai, and Klaus Fichtel. After him are Kevin Ayers, Momčilo Perišić, Takeshi Ono, José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, Orhan Gencebay, and Günter Verheugen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Moody ranks 4,133 out of 20,380. Before him are E. G. Marshall (1914), Allen Klein (1931), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Sally Kirkland (1941), and Terry Dischinger (1940). After him are Sammy Gravano (1945), Floyd Council (1911), Edward Bellamy (1850), Kim Darby (1947), John Petrucci (1967), and Andreas Katsulas (1946).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Raymond Moody ranks 60. Before him are James J. Gibson (1904), Arthur Janov (1924), Arnold Gesell (1880), Stanley Schachter (1922), Benjamin Libet (1916), and James Hillman (1926). After him are Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Lewis Terman (1877), Gustave Gilbert (1911), Sandra Bem (1944), and Michael Tomasello (1950).

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