Fin-de-Siècle Ranking of Important Psychologists by a Sample of Undergraduate Students Enrolled in History of Psychology

Abstract

134 undergraduate students of the history of psychology from 1998 through 2000 were requested to name three psychologists in order of importance, eminence, or influence within as well as outside the discipline of psychology. Salient was confirmation of Sigmund Freud as outranking other psychologists by a wide margin.