# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-mechner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:24.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-mechner"
name: "Francis Mechner"
slug: "francis-mechner"
description: "Francis Mechner is an Austrian-born American research psychologist best known for having developed and introduced a formal symbolic language for the codification and notation of behavioral contingencies. He has published articles about the language's applications in economics, finance, education, environment, business management, biology, clinical practice, and law. Mechner is also known for a variety of contributions to instructional technology and basic research in the field of learning."
tagline: "American psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1931"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             13.84615384615384
  historical:           2.410656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  31
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Mechner"
    title: "Francis Mechner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E6%9C%97%E8%A5%BF%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%A2%85%E5%B8%8C%E7%BA%B3"
    title: "弗朗西斯·梅希纳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations