# Influential Psychologists

## [The Buddha — History’s Most Illustrious Psychologist](/content/psychology/buddha-psychology/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) May 30, 2024

For thousands of years, human beings have wrestled with enduring questions about the nature of the mind and the causes of suffering. Why do people …

## [History’s Most Influential Psychologists & How They Changed Our Understanding of the Mind](/content/psychology/influential-psychologists/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) November 15, 2023

## [Influential Psychologists — Adam Grant](/content/psychology/adam-grant/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) June 8, 2023

Few contemporary psychologists have cultivated as prominent a public presence as Adam Grant, the distinguished organizational psychologist whose achievements include becoming the youngest tenured professor …

## [Influential Psychologists — Martin Seligman](/content/psychology/martin-seligman/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) March 25, 2019

## [Influential Psychologists — Abraham Maslow](/content/psychology/abraham-maslow/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) October 3, 2017

Despite a difficult and often unhappy childhood, Abraham Maslow devoted his career to understanding not what goes wrong in human life, but what allows people …

## [Influential Psychologists — Daniel Goleman](/content/psychology/daniel-goleman/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) June 15, 2017

Through his landmark 1995 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman fundamentally reshaped the conversation around human potential and success, arguing that qualities such as self-awareness, emotional …

## [Influential Psychologists — Viktor Frankl](/content/psychology/viktor-frankl/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) January 2, 2017

## [Influential Psychologists — Carl Rogers](/content/psychology/carl-rogers/index.html)
by [Patrick Zeis](/content/author/patrickzeis/index.html) August 22, 2016

As one of the principal architects of humanistic psychology, Carl Rogers helped transform the field’s understanding of human nature alongside his friend and fellow pioneer, …