JEWS RANKED AMONG THE 102 MOST FREQUENTLY CITED PSYCHOLOGISTS IN
THE INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK LITERATURE
(43% of  total) 
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Enumerated below are psychologists listed among the 102 most frequently cited in the introductory psychology textbook literature who are, or were, Jewish (or of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry, as noted).  The overall list was formulated by Steven Haggbloom et al. in connection with the paper "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century" (Review of General Psychology, 2002). An updated listing, incorporating corrections to the original textbook citation list, can be found here.
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1.Son of a Danish-Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen, and a German-Jewish step-father, Dr. Theodor Homburger.  Prior to her marriage to Homburger, Erikson's mother was briefly married to a Danish Jew, Valdemar Isidor Salomonson.  Erikson claimed, however, that his true biological father was an unknown, non-Jewish Dane.  See Erik Erikson: a detailed evaluation and genogram study, by Monica McGoldrick.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.  Although Eysenck denied Jewish ancestry throughout most of his life, in his 1990 autobiography, he admitted that his maternal grandmother, who died in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezín, had been Jewish.  In a recent paper, entitled "Hans Eysenck and the Jewish question: Genealogical investigations" (Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 103, pp. 195-199, December 2016), Andrew M. Colman and Caren A. Frosch present conclusive evidence showing that both of Eysenck's maternal grandparents had, in fact, been Jews.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
4. Born Elizabeth Fishman; see also  http://williamcalvin.com/2002/OrangeCtyRegister.htm.
5. Not generally known to have been Jewish. However, Hans Morgenstern's Jüdisches Biographisches Lexikon (LIT Verlag, Berlin and Vienna, 2011, p. 757) lists Selye as half-Jewish through his mother, Felicitas Langbank.  Other data, contained in Dr. Anna Staudacher's (Austrian Academy of Sciences) compilation of "Leavings of the Jewish Community of Vienna between 1868 and 1914" lists Dr. Hugo Selye, Hans Selye's father, as having converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1902. According to Viennese Jewish communal records, Felicitas Langbank was born Felice (or Felicia) Langbank in 1884 to Heinrich (Mayer Hirsch) Langbank and Adele Neumann.  Staudacher's research indicates that she underwent conversion in 1906.
6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
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