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Mary Ainsworth

1913 - 1999

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Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth (née Salter; December 1, 1913 – March 21, 1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of the attachment theory. She designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and their primary caregiver. A 2002 Review of General Psychology survey ranked Ainsworth as the 97th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Many of Ainsworth's studies are "cornerstones" of modern-day attachment theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Ainsworth is the 74th most popular psychologist (down from 70th in 2019), the 1,454th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,107th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Psychologist.

Mary Ainsworth is most famous for her work on attachment theory. Attachment theory is the idea that the type of attachment a child has with their caregiver will have an effect on their future relationships.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Mary Ainsworth ranks 74 out of 235. Before her are Alexander Luria, Karl Bühler, Margaret Mahler, Karl Abraham, Otto Rank, and Ernst Kretschmer. After her are Geert Hofstede, Wilfred Bion, Stanislav Grof, Edward B. Titchener, Alexander Bain, and David Wechsler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Mary Ainsworth ranks 50. Before her are Leônidas, Yasuo Suzuki, Motoo Tatsuhara, Erich Priebke, Xi Zhongxun, and Aimé Césaire. After her are Mehmet Shehu, Peter Cushing, Richard Stone, Masanobu Fukuoka, Muddy Waters, and Charles Trenet. Among people deceased in 1999, Mary Ainsworth ranks 33. Before her are Gerhard Herzberg, Julius Nyerere, Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Grotowski, Daniel Nathans, and Akio Morita. After her are George C. Scott, Sarah Knauss, Henry Way Kendall, João Figueiredo, Hélder Câmara, and Desmond Llewelyn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Ainsworth ranks 1,454 out of 20,380. Before her are Hilary Putnam (1926), Bill de Blasio (1961), Patrick Wilson (1973), Uma Thurman (1970), Groucho Marx (1890), and John Clauser (1942). After her are Stan Smith (1946), The Ultimate Warrior (1959), Harrison Schmitt (1935), Harry Markowitz (1927), Martin Balsam (1919), and Steve Reich (1936).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Mary Ainsworth ranks 24. Before her are Martin Seligman (1942), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), and Philip Zimbardo (1933). After her are George Armitage Miller (1920), Timothy Leary (1920), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), and Benjamin Bloom (1913).

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