Saturday, November 19, 2011

Does anyone know psychologists that won the Nobel Prize?

I need at least 3 psychologists that won the Nobel Prize in something. So far I have Daniel Kahneman for economics in 2002, but I can't find more.|||You really have to stretch it a bit to find others. Herbert Simon is probably your best bet. But I think he became a psychologist after he won the prize. Pavlov, famous for his studies which led to the classical conditioning paradigm won a Nobel prize. But he wasn't a psychologist. Lorenz, whose work was importent to psychology and could be considered an animal behaviourist also won - also not a psychologist. Roger Sperry actually worked in a psychology department for a year - but he trained as a zoologist.|||1993 - Presented jointly to John Edward Mack of Harvard Medical School and David M. Jacobs of Temple University, for their conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were 鈥?and especially for their conclusion, "the focus of the abduction is the production of children".





1994- Presented to Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.





1995 - Presented to Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.





2000 - Presented to David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kreuger of the University of Illinois, for their modest report, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments".





2001 - Presented to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential research report "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children".





2003 - Presented to Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome La Sapienza, and to Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities".





2004 - Presented jointly to Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else - even a woman in a gorilla suit.





All of the above were awarded for psychology.

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