Michael Argyle - UK Social Psychologist Biography

John Michael Argyle (August 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) born in Nottingham, England,  was the only child of Phyllis and George Edgar Argyle, both of whom died when Michael was eleven years old (Coleman 2004). He attended the Nottingham High School for Boys and entered the University of Cambridge to study Mathematics. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and supervised over 50 doctoral students as well as conducting research into a wide range of topics.

Michael's interest in psychology began with his observation of a school friend who was very shy and did not interact successfully in social situations. Wondering if social skills might not be learned in the same way as manual skills led Argyle to research interpersonal behavior.

Gordon Allport - American Psychologist Bio

Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967) was an American Psychologist born in Montezuma, Indiana, who played a major role in shaping the fields of Personality psychology and Social psychology. 

 He had wide-ranging interests in eidetic imagery, religion, social attitudes, rumor, and radio.

Alfred Adler - Austrian Psychologist Biography & Theories

Alfred Adler born in Penzig, a suburb of Vienna, Austria in 1870 and raised in Vienna,  was the third child of a Jewish grain merchant and his wife. 

Adler pursued medical career at the University of Vienna Medical School due to childhood illnesses and the traumatic death of a younger sibling and qualified in 1895.

In 1897, Alfred married to Raissa Timofeyewna Epstein, an intellectual and social activist from Russia and later parented four children, two of whom became psychiatrists.

Karl Abraham - German Psychoanalyst Biography

Karl Abraham (May 3, 1877 – December 25, 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a student and colleague of Sigmund Freud. He made substantial contributions to the world of psychoanalysis. 

 Karl Abraham was born in Bremen, Germany on May 3, 1877, into a well-to-do, highly cultured, and well established Jewish family. 

Abraham became deeply interested in philology and linguistics, and he learned to speak five languages, read several others, and even analyzed and psychoanalyzed some patients in English.