As a dirty school psych phd, here are my thoughts:
- Larrabee: ?
- Heaton:?
- Reynolds: If we're talking Cecil - A/B tier. The BASC and RCMAS are goat status, the big ole rating scale did a lot to quantify the field and these have strong clinical utility. Good textbooks on kid/psychoed assessment. The RIAS overestimates IQ, thereby under identifying kids with ID for special ed services and government services. Prolly A tier for facilitating the downfall of projective assessment alone.
- McWilliams
- Zimbardo: creepy boomer psychologist who probably faked or did shady stuff with his psychology. Was a jerk to people who called him out.
- Seligman: the work on learned helpless is foundational. positive psychology is cringe but probably not teratogenic. might of took money from the government to help
torture enhanced interrogation of prisoners (not always a bad thing IMO, I mean if you're gonna torture enhanced interrogate people, you want psychologist with a strong research background to help find effective ways ). A/B tier.
- Ekman: ?
- Loftus: F tier - outright teratogenic.
- Gardner: C tier - the theory of multiple intelligences is wrong, but it also helps people understand that IQ ain't everything in life. A necessary counterbalance to G maximalists.
- Pinker: as a psychologist: probably a/b tier for the integration and move away from complete tabula rasa. A/S tier communicator, writer, and advocate of rationality.
Peterson
I was mostly rating by public perception, not academic achievements.
Larrabee= written a bunch of textbooks
Heaton= when people reach for norms, they see this name.
Reynold= written a bunch of texts, and tests so people see this name a bunch.
McWilliams= both psychologists and psychiatrists tend to read her books. CBT is mostly referenced by psychiatry authors.
Zimbardo= has been in the media. Somehow avoided the issue of his research.
Seligman= written popular press books, been in the media
Ekman= had a TV show about him, sold his stuff to the TSA
Loftus= attorneys all know her name, which makes more work for us
Gardner= IDK, seems like normal people sorta know the name
Pinker= written popular press books, normal people seem to know his name
Peterson= been in the media regularly, somehow gained acceptance from a segment of the population that habitually doesn't like psychologists.
Dr. Phil McGraw has entered the chat.
Oh God. I guess he was a psychologist, and is one of the most recognized psychologists.