PSYCHOLOGIST

Raymond Cattell

1905 - 1998

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Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure. His work also explored the basic dimensions of personality and temperament, the range of cognitive abilities, the dynamic dimensions of motivation and emotion, the clinical dimensions of abnormal personality, patterns of group syntality and social behavior, applications of personality research to psychotherapy and learning theory, predictors of creativity and achievement, and many multivariate research methods including the refinement of factor analytic methods for exploring and measuring these domains. Cattell authored, co-authored, or edited almost 60 scholarly books, more than 500 research articles, and over 30 standardized psychometric tests, questionnaires, and rating scales. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Cattell is the 57th most popular psychologist (down from 47th in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 519th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Psychologist.

Raymond Cattell is most famous for his 16 personality factors.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Raymond Cattell ranks 57 out of 235Before him are Kurt Koffka, Solomon Asch, Sándor Ferenczi, Martin Seligman, Antonio Damasio, and Roger Wolcott Sperry. After him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, Stanley Milgram, Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, and Leon Festinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Raymond Cattell ranks 33Before him are Władysław Gomułka, Gerard Kuiper, Gertrude Ederle, C. P. Snow, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and George H. Hitchings. After him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Max Schmeling, Michael Powell, Marian Rejewski, Helen Wills, and Jean Vigo. Among people deceased in 1998, Raymond Cattell ranks 26Before him are Frederick Reines, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Tameo Ide, Theodore Schultz, and George H. Hitchings. After him are Falco, Shoichi Nishimura, Kenichi Fukui, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, and Helen Wills.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Cattell ranks 774 out of 8,785Before him are Bill Nighy (1949), Benjamin Graham (1894), Gerard Butler (1969), Bernard Lewis (1916), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), and John Barry (1933). After him are William Jackson Hooker (1785), James II of Scotland (1430), Amy Winehouse (1983), Derek Jacobi (1938), Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), and Fred Perry (1909).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Raymond Cattell ranks 3Before him are John Bowlby (1907), and Donald Winnicott (1896). After him are Edward B. Titchener (1867), Alexander Bain (1818), R. D. Laing (1927), Charles Spearman (1863), Havelock Ellis (1859), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).