This list has been updated here. Psychologists (and a few stray neuroscientists) on Twitter, listed in order of number of followers. It’s a work in progress – please use comments to alert me to others. Follower counts are subject to change but were correct on 12 Nov, 2010. Shortcut URL to this list is http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/11/psychologists-on-twitter.html
Laura Kauffman. Child psychologist. Followers: 59,845
Richard Wiseman. Parapsychologist, magician, author. Followers: 53,363
George Huba. Psychologist. Followers: 16,468
Aleks Krotoski. Psychologist, tech journalist. Followers: 13,798
Marsha Lucas. Neuropsychologist. Followers: 11,170
Jonah Lehrer. Blogger, author. Followers: 8283
Jo Hemmings. Celebrity psychologist. Followers: 7880
Dan Ariely. Behavioural Economist, author. Followers: 6476
Graham Jones. Internet (cyber) psychologist. Followers: 6147
Steven Pinker. Psycholinguist, evolutionary psychologist, author. Followers: 6225
David Ballard. Psychologist, Head of APA marketing. Followers: 5918
Christian Jarrett. That’s me! Followers: 4000
Ciarán O’Keeffe. Parapsychologist. Followers: 3965
Petra Boynton. Psychologist, sex educator. Followers: 3598
Mo Costandi. Writer, blogger. Followers: 3485
Vaughan Bell. Clinical neuropsychologist, blogger. Followers: 3114
John Grohol. Founder of Psychcentral. Followers: 2875
Jeremy Dean. Blogger. Followers: 2431
Brian MacDonald. Clinical psychologist. Followers: 2338
Bruce Hood. Cognitive scientist. Followers: 2231
Rita Handrich. Psychologist, editor. Followers: 2174
Daniel Levitin. Psychologist, author. Followers: 2072
Sandeep Gautam. Blogger. Followers: 1810
David Webb. Psychology tutor, blogger. Followers: 1764
David Eagleman. Neuroscientist, author. Followers: 1687
Ana Loback. Psychologist. Followers: 1249
Maria Panagiotidi. Grad student. Followers: 1223
G. Tendayi Viki. Social psychologist. Followers: 1220
Wendy Cousins. Skeptic. Followers: 1219
Alex Linley. Positive psychologist. Followers: 1162
Rolfe Lindgren. Psychologist, personality expert. Followers: 1053
Chris Atherton. Cognitive psychologist. Followers: 968
Mark Changizi. Cognitive psychologist, author. Followers: 955
Jay Watts. Clinical psychologist, Lacanian. Followers: 901
Jesse Bering. Psychologist, blogger. Followers: 895
Anthony Risser. Neuropsychologist, blogger. Followers: 819
Joseph LeDoux. Neuroscientist, rocker. Followers: 804
Chris French. Anomalistic psychologist. Followers: 745
Jason Goldman. Grad student, blogger. Followers: 693
CoertVisser. Psychologist. Followers: 690
The Neurocritic. Blogger. Followers: 674
Ben Hawkes. Psychologist, comedian. Followers: 638
Sophie Scott. Neuroscientist. Followers: 637
Karen Pine. Psychologist, author. Followers: 629
Dorothy Bishop. Developmental neuropsychologist. Followers: 574
Mark Batey. Creativity expert. Followers: 566
Charles Fernyhough. Developmental psychologist, author. Followers: 529
Cary Cooper. Occupational psychologist. Followers: 526
Melanie Greenberg. Clinical health psychologist. Followers: 508
Monica Whitty. Cyberpsychologist. Followers: 492
James Neill. Psychology lecturer. Followers: 489
Olivia Wallis. Positive psychologist. Followers: 474
Eran Katz. Grad student (tweets in Hebrew). Followers: 467
Rob Archer. Organisational psychologist. Followers: 442
Christopher H. Ramey. Psychologist. Followers: 408
Hilary Bruffell. Social psychologist. Followers: 383
Manon Eileen. Clinical psychologist & criminologist. Followers: 369
Tom Stafford. Psychologist, author. Followers: 368
Nick Hartley. Trainee clinical psychologist. Followers: 359
Rory O’Connor. Health psychologist, suicide researcher. Followers: 358
Mike Garth. Sports psychologist. Followers: 349
Rachel Robinson. Child psychologist. Followers: 325
Atle Dyregrov. Psychologist, expert in crisis psychology. Followers: 323
Claudia Hammond. Radio presenter. Followers: 288
Uta Frith. Developmental neuropsychologist, autism expert. Followers: 268
Daryl O’Connor. Health psychologist. Followers: 258
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Cognitive neuroscientist. Followers: 253
Sam Edwards. Health psychologist. Followers: 247
Wray Herbert. Writer for APS, author. Followers: 238
Caroline Watt. Parapsychologist. Followers: 236
David Matsumoto. Psychologist and judoka. Followers: 224
Tim Byron. Music psychologist. Followers: 213
Kevin McGrew. Intelligence expert. Followers: 206
Erika Salomon. Grad student. Followers: 206
Andy Fugard. Cognitive scientist. Followers: 187
Karen Franklin. Forensic psychologist. Followers: 176
Sean Nethercott. Psychologist. Followers: 171
Ciarán Mc Mahon. Psychologist. Followers: 155
Patrick Macartney. Psychologist and sociologist. Followers: 149
Daniel Simons. Cognitive psychologist, author. Followers: 145
Janet Civitelli. Counselling psychologist. Followers: 139
Adrian Wale. Cognitive scientist, writer. Followers: 137
Lorna Quandt. Grad student. Followers: 137
Talya Grumberg. Mental health counsellor. Followers: 131
Lila Chrysikou. Psychologist. Followers: 128
Steven Brownlow. Clinical and forensic psychologist. Followers: 124
Rebecca Symes. Sports psychologist. Followers: 115
Craig Bertram. Grad student. Followers: 114
Matteo Cantamesse. Social psychologist. Followers: 108
Mark Hoelterhoff. Experimental existential psychologist. Followers: 105
Johnrev Guilaran. Clinical psychologist trainee. Followers: 104
Gareth Morris. Grad student. Followers: 105
Sanja Dutina. Psychologist. Followers: 101
Valeschka Guerra. Psychology lecturer. Followers: 101
Jenna Condie. Environmental psychologist. Followers: 97
Emma Dunlop. Grad student. Followers: 92
Deb Halasz. Research psychologist. Followers: 90
Jon Simons. Cognitive scientist. Followers: 87
Suzanne Conboy-Hill. Clinical psychologist. Followers: 85
Victoria Galbraith. Counselling psychologist. Followers: 84
Romeo Vitelli. Psychologist in private practice. Followers: 81
Astrid Kitti. Grad student. Followers: 79
John Houser. School psychologist. Followers: 79
Ruthanna Gordon. Psychologist, sustainability expert. Followers: 78
Marc Scully. Social psychologist. Followers: 76
Ken Gilhooly. Cognitive psychologist. Followers: 72
Catriona Morrison. Experimental psychologist. Followers: 69
Jen Lewis. Grad student. Followers: 65
Daniela O’Neill. Developmental psychologist. Followers: 65
Kevin Friery. Psychologist, psychotherapist. Followers: 60
Simon Dymond. Behavioural neuroscientist. Followers: 58
Arvid Kappas. Emotion researcher. Followers: 58
Sue Hartley. Psychologist. Followers: 56
Bex Hewett. PhD student in occupational psychology. Followers: 56
Jui Bhagwat. Child psychologist. Followers: 54
Simon Knight. Psychologist. Followers: 44
Dylan Lopich. Clinical psychologist. Followers: 42
Tom Walton. Grad student. Followers: 40
John Hyland. Experimental psychologist. Followers: 37
Odette Beris. Psychologist and coach. Followers: 35
Gerald Guild. Psychologist, autism specialist. Followers: 33
Gillian Smith. Alcohol and drug researcher. Followers: 32
Nancy Hoffman. Neuropsychologist. Followers: 28
Chris Brand. Cognitive psychologist in training. Followers: 28
Alex Birch. Business psychologist. Followers: 26
Barry McGuinness. Psychologist, writer. Followers: 24
David Yates. Grad student. Followers: 24
David Hughes. Psychologist. Followers: 22
Kathryn Newns. Clinical psychologist. Followers: 21
Philip Collier. Sport & positive psychologist. Followers: 22
Paul Hanges. Organisational psychologist. Followers: 20
Andrew and Sabrina. Psychological scientists. Followers: 18
Bruce Hutchison. Clinical psychologist. Followers 18.
Caitlin Allison. Trainee counselling psychologist. Followers: 17
Margarita Holmes. Psychologist and sex therapist. Followers: 17
John Taylor. Cognitive psychologist. Followers: 16
Alison Price. Occupational psychologist. Followers: 16
Sian Jones. Grad student. Followers: 13
Scott Kaufman. Cognitive psychologist. Followers: 11
Victoria Mason. Psychology lecturer. Followers: 7
Helen Jones. Clinical psychologist. Followers: 7
Chelsea Walsh. Family & marriage therapist. Followers: 4
Lorraine Hope. Cognitive psychologist. Followers: 1
Further reading: @jonmsutton conducts world’s first (probably) psychology-themed Twinterview.
I'd like to be included too:
Dr Ciarán Mc Mahon, lecturer and researcher
(153 followers)
wwww.twitter.com/cjamcmahon
http://www.facebook.com/psychbook
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You've probably already opened the floodgates on yourself, but I would like to be included on the psych list as well (jhhouser). School psychologist here.
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Thank you for this list! It is probably a good idea to keep it a list of psychologists who twitter in English, but if you'd like to you could add a link to this list of Swedish psychologists and psychology students.
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I'm on Twitter too…and I'm a psychologist (6,139 followers)
@grahamjones
http://twitter.com/grahamjones
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(Organizational) Psychologist, 1052 followers, @roffe, the occasional tweet in English, mainly Norwegian though
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Excellent list. Thanks very much for taking the time to compile it.
@dylanlopich – I am a clinical psychologist in private practice working in Cape Town (South Africa) with an interest in affective neuroscience. I have 40 followers.
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Tweets about news and events relating to Perceptual Control Theory
http://twitter.com/ThePCTtweeter
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Hi,
I write the blog:
http://www.neurobonkers.com
twitter.com/neurobonkers
I focus mainly on critiquing dressed up pseudo-psychology in mainstream media and reviweing querky papers. I'm new to twitter though.
66 followers
Max Moonshine, Psychology Research student conducting research on EEG based Brain-computer-interfacing in Bristol
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You are most welcome to follow me – OD adviser and incessant blogger (micro and otherwise) – ★★★ facilitating the conversations, ideas & questions to help build a more ambitious, creative and fair world ★★★
@jonsharvey
7,020 Tweets
1,603 Following
1,298 Followers
55 Listed
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And I will follow back!
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I'm still a newbie on Twitter but my listing is:
Romeo Vitelli
@rvitelli Toronto
I am a psychologist in private practice in Toronto and Hamilton. I am a Red Cross volunteer and enjoy travel, blogging, and learning new things.
http://drvitelli.typepad.com
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Would love it if any psychologist would sent a tweet to help me recruit volunteer participants for my national psychological study called, The Love Survey (www.thelovesurvey.org) which is a study of intimacy, passion and commitment and for my PhD Dissertation at Capella University and future publishing of results. Here's a twitter message you can cut/paste: Are you in a romantic relationship? Research Volunteers Needed for Psychological Study. Survey online at http://www.thelovesurvey.org.
THANK YOU!
Doreen Lewis
doreen@thelovesurvey.org
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I'm a child psychologist in private practice in the Bay Area. I specialize in work with kids and teens struggling with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. I typically tweet about child development, parenting, and education issues. Join me!
Dr. Laura Compian Kauffman
59,845 Followers
@ChildPsych
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Chelsea Walsh
Chelsea Walsh
@ChelseaWalshMFT Long Beach, CA
I am a licensed Marriage & Family therapist with a practice in Long Beach. I believe that therapy brings change and healing.
http://www.chelseamwalshlmft.com
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Great list! I'm an Occupational Psychologist based in London
@AlexJansenBirch – specialise in psychological well-being at work, personality, resilience.
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Sean Nethercott as @sf_nethercott. Psychologist with broad interests. 161 followers.
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I'm also on Twitter – @MasonVictoria
Senior Lecturer, University of Worcester
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I'm also on Twitter – @valeschka2303
Lecturer, Research methods is psychology,
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
93 followers
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Hi I'd like to be included, I'm a Chartered Psychologist @enormousyes
thanks Odette Beris
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This is a great list – I'm going to share it at reddit.com/r/psychology (where I am one of the moderators).
I also tweet @NeuralCorrelate and I have a psychology, business, and philosophy blog at The Emotion Machine.
I would like to be included in the list as a “psychology blogger,” but it's okay if you don't think my credentials are good enough. I only have a BA in psych and I don't plan to go to graduate school.
Thanks for putting this together!
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This list is fantastic – I'm familiar with some, but not all of these psychologists.
My name is Brian MacDonald, and I'm a Canadian clinical psychologist who tweets at @familyanatomy. My parenting/relationship blog is at http://familyanatomy.com.
Thanks again for creating this list – I have some new people to follow!
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Wow, this is a great list! Wonder if it would be worthwhile to create a simple database to allow sorting/filtering (for field) as it grows. (Not volunteering–today, anyway).
I am another grad student (wannabe social psychologist). @ecsalomon, Erika Salomon
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I have a master's degree in psychology. I blog, tweet and talk about positive psychology, sports psychology and I have a strong leaning towards cognitive neuroscience.
Follow me on: @SportSparks
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I've just updated the list. I've stopped adding grad students, sorry. Also, please can you give your full name – I've ignored those who don't. Thanks!
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Me too:
Matteo Cantamesse, phD
@mcantamesse
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just got on twitter!
@sbkaufman
11 followers so far.
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I write under the name ThrDrBoo – I am a clinical psychologist and I predominately blog about perinatal psychology and child rearing. I currently have a lowly 19 followers.
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Sorry, should have added my full name – Kathryn Newns, Cinical Psychologist, blogging under the name TheDrBoo on twitter and at http://www.babymanualnotincluded.com
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Hi 😀 I'm a clinical psychologist and criminologist. I blog about psychological and neurological illnesses and philosophical topics in psychology.
I'm @manon_eileen at Twitter and my website is http://www.manoneileen.com.
This is a great list, thank you for sharing it!
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I am a business psychologist on twitter…
@voulagrand
http://www.grandshearman.com and http://www.voulagrand.com
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Dr. Katherine Nordal, executive director of professional practice at the American Psychological Association, is at @DrNordal. She has 300+ followers as of posting this comment.
And one of the Twitter feeds at the American Psychological Association keeps a list of APA members who are on Twitter. More members are added to the list as they are discovered.
http://twitter.com/#!/APAHelpCenter/apa-members
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Can I be cheeky and put myself forward?
Keir Liddle – Skeptic (organiser of the largest free skeptical festival in the UK http://www.skepticsonthefringe.co.uk) Psychologist working in Nursing Midwivery and Applied Health professions research
@endless_psych on twitter
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Hello!
please add Dr. Daniel Amen
http://twitter.com/#!/AmenClncsNorCal
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Hello! I am a Medical Historian for Dr. Amen.
please add Dr. Daniel Amen
http://twitter.com/#!/AmenClncsNorCal
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Michael Newman
– Psychologist at Sigmund Freud Psychology and Mental Health Research Center
– Psychology blog writer
http://www.freud-sigmund.com
– Researches in Clinical Psychology and Mass Psychology
Twitter: 2,500 followers @SigmundFreudPsy
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@cgerden PhD student in work psychology – 153 follower
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My updated info is:
@JanetCivitelli
1000+ followers
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Hello
I'm Shirley Lockeridge @DrShirleyLock
I'm a clinical psychologist with 560 followers on twitter
Working in NHS and private practice.
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