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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 285,955 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert Jay Lifton is the 412th most popular historian (down from 321st in 2019), the 8,659th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,174th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Historian.

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  • 290k

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  • 43.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 412 out of 339. Before him are Christopher Browning, Robert Service, Carroll Quigley, Donald Nicol, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, and William of Newburgh. After him are Albrecht Weber, Timothy D. Snyder, Orlando Figes, Horace Engdahl, Alessandro Barbero, and Stephen F. Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 396. Before him are Piero Drogo, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Ernst Larsen, Noor Jehan, Chuck Cooper, and Arne Bendiksen. After him are Loris Campana, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Fritz Weaver, Lily Carlstedt, Éva Janikovszky, and Patrice Wymore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 8,659 out of 18,182. Before him are Steven Saylor (1956), Donald Piper (1911), The Fabulous Moolah (1923), Russi Taylor (1944), Michelle Trachtenberg (1985), and Dave Franco (1985). After him are Doug Emhoff (1964), Florence Henderson (1934), John Henry Twachtman (1853), Elisha Kent Kane (1820), Ed Macauley (1928), and Mavis Staples (1939).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Robert Jay Lifton ranks 34. Before him are Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Charles A. Beard (1874), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Browning (1944), and Carroll Quigley (1910). After him are Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Elaine Pagels (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), and James H. Billington (1929).

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