Jüri Allik

Who is Jüri Allik?

Jüri Allik, is an Estonian psychologist.

Allik holds Ph.D. degrees in psychology both from the University of Moscow, Russia and University of Tampere, Finland. Spending his academic career at the University of Tartu, he became Professor of Psychophysics in 1992, and is since 2002 Professor of Experimental Psychology. He is also the head of the University of Tartu’s Department of Psychology and the chairman of the Estonian Science Foundation, as well as an editor of Estonia’s most important social science and humanities journal in English, Trames.

Allik was both President and Vice President of the Estonian Psychological Association. He is a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and a Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Allik’s main contributions to international psychology lie mainly in two areas: visual perception and eye movement, and the comparative study of collectivism vs. individualism. Within Estonia and in Estonian, his highly critical publications on Sigmund Freud, on the history of psychology, and on the measuring of science productivity, the transition of science, and quality control are of great importance as well.