# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-t-campbell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:18:59.228Z

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description: "Donald Thomas Campbell was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term evolutionary epistemology and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Campbell as the 33rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump