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James J. Gibson

1904 - 1979

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James Jerome Gibson (; January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked him as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Woodworth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James J. Gibson is the 160th most popular psychologist (down from 158th in 2019), the 4,220th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,438th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, James J. Gibson ranks 160 out of 235. Before him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Michael Gazzaniga, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Jacques-Alain Miller, Victor Skumin, and Aleksei N. Leontiev. After him are Stanley Schachter, Walter Mischel, Brenda Milner, Harry Harlow, Arnold Gesell, and Henri Nouwen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, James J. Gibson ranks 144. Before him are William L. Shirer, Goffredo Petrassi, Lippo Hertzka, Sergei Yutkevich, Miguel Capuccini, and Necip Fazıl Kısakürek. After him are Edvard Kocbek, Antoun Saadeh, Bruce Cabot, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Ellen Church, and Lauri Virtanen. Among people deceased in 1979, James J. Gibson ranks 114. Before him are Fulton J. Sheen, Leonid Bykov, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Marcel L'Herbier, August Heissmeyer, and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. After him are Georges Florovsky, Jack Haley, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Issa Pliyev, Jean Rhys, and David Butler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 4,220 out of 20,380. Before him are Maureen Stapleton (1925), Todd Rundgren (1948), Sly Stone (1943), Bray Wyatt (1987), Milt Jackson (1923), and David Chase (1945). After him are Mark Gordon (1957), Joe Turkel (1927), K. A. Applegate (1956), Bob King (1906), Don Wilson (1954), and Frankie Valli (1934).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, James J. Gibson ranks 53. Before him are J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), George Kelly (1905), David Ausubel (1918), Arthur Janov (1924), and Michael Gazzaniga (1939). After him are Stanley Schachter (1922), Harry Harlow (1905), Arnold Gesell (1880), Rensis Likert (1903), James Hillman (1926), and Henry Murray (1893).

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