Psychology
Psychology gave institutions their model of the person. Developmental stages, conditioning, cognitive therapy and trauma research all originate here, and they shape schooling, courtroom testimony, advertising and clinical care.
9 indexed lives · 1 Nobel laureates · 5 countries
Where to start
Daniel Kahneman
1934 – 2024Prospect theory founded behavioural economics and modern policy 'nudging'.
Israel·Economics · PsychologyNobel
William James
1842 – 1910Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
United States·Philosophy · Psychology
Joseph Murphy
1898 – 1981Recast affirmation as subconscious programming for a postwar readership.
Ireland·New Thought · Psychology
Nobel recognition in Psychology
- Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002