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Robert Jay Lifton

1926 - Today

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Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Jay Lifton has received more than 305,600 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert Jay Lifton is the 440th most popular historian (down from 412th in 2019), the 7,163rd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,641st in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Historian.

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  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 440 out of 561. Before him are Daniel J. Boorstin, Michael Panaretos, Martin Noth, H. A. R. Gibb, George Finlay, and Aron Gurevich. After him are Hugo Falcandus, Mikheil Tsereteli, Joseph Hergenröther, Martin Gilbert, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and Craterus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 362. Before him are Frank O'Hara, Víctor Ugarte, Charlotte Rae, Hermann Kant, Kurt Schmied, and Clifford Husbands. After him are José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Andrea Kékesy, Metaksia Simonyan, Pedro Dellacha, Ray McAnally, and Salma Khadra Jayyusi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 7,163 out of 20,380. Before him are Brad Fiedel (1951), Jed Allan (1935), Jacob L. Devers (1887), Richard H. Truly (1937), Frederick Schule (1879), and David Twohy (1955). After him are Courtney B. Vance (1960), Kathryn Hahn (1974), Tress MacNeille (1951), Bert Lahr (1895), Phyllis Coates (1927), and Julian Jaynes (1920).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 27. Before him are Efraim Zuroff (1948), Richard N. Frye (1920), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), and Daniel J. Boorstin (1914). After him are Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Charles A. Beard (1874), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Christopher Browning (1944), and Samuel Eliot Morison (1887).

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