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Otto Klineberg
psychologist

Harry Allen Overstreet
American social psychologist

Frantz Fanon
West Indian psychoanalyst and philosopher

Erich Fromm
American psychoanalyst and philosopher

Margaret Floy Washburn
American psychologist

William McDougall
American psychologist

George Herbert Mead
American philosopher

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
American sociologist