PSYCHOLOGIST

Rensis Likert

1903 - 1981

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Rensis Likert ( LIK-ərt; August 5, 1903 – September 3, 1981) was an American organizational and social psychologist known for developing the Likert scale, a psychometrically sound scale based on responses to multiple questions. The scale has become a method to measure people's thoughts and feelings from opinion surveys to personality tests. Likert also founded the theory of participative management, which is used to engage employees in the workplace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rensis Likert has received more than 296,801 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rensis Likert is the 148th most popular psychologist, the 3,232nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,127th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 300k

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  • 54.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Rensis Likert ranks 148 out of 235. Before him are Roberto Assagioli, Jordan Peterson, Alexander Bain, Harry Harlow, Ernest Jones, and Walter Mischel. After him are Georgi Lozanov, Fritz Heider, Benjamin Spock, David Ausubel, Jonathan Haidt, and Franz Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Rensis Likert ranks 137. Before him are Nikolay Cherkasov, Abba P. Lerner, Ferenc Nagy, Cyril Jackson, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Karl Fritzsch. After him are Benjamin Spock, John Wyndham, Guillermo Subiabre, Lina Radke, Dolores Costello, and Matvey Blanter. Among people deceased in 1981, Rensis Likert ranks 88. Before him are Nargis, Jerzy Neyman, Michele Andreolo, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Ivan Eklind, and Edith Head. After him are Edvard Kocbek, Mohammad Beheshti, Paul Anspach, Victor Kugler, Carl Ludwig Siegel, and Eraldo Monzeglio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rensis Likert ranks 3,232 out of 20,380. Before him are Herb Ritts (1952), Andrea Dworkin (1946), Jill St. John (1940), Blake Lively (1987), Diane Venora (1952), and Frederick Jackson Turner (1861). After him are Rue McClanahan (1934), Vito Acconci (1940), Roy Sullivan (1912), John Barth (1930), Jim Thorpe (1887), and Sam Wood (1883).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Rensis Likert ranks 49. Before him are Robert Plutchik (1927), George Kelly (1905), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), and Harry Harlow (1905). After him are Benjamin Spock (1903), David Ausubel (1918), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Julian Rotter (1916), James J. Gibson (1904), and Arthur Janov (1924).

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