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Otto Klineberg

psychologist

Harry Allen Overstreet

Harry Allen Overstreet

American social psychologist

Frantz Fanon

West Indian psychoanalyst and philosopher

Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

American psychoanalyst and philosopher

Margaret Floy Washburn

American psychologist

William McDougall

American psychologist

George Herbert Mead

American philosopher

Lewin, Kurt

Kurt Lewin

American social psychologist

Charles Hubbard Judd

American psychologist

Gustave Le Bon

French psychologist

Henri Tajfel

Polish-born British social psychologist

Edward A. Ross.

Edward A. Ross

American sociologist