# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-katona
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:11:36.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-katona"
name: "George Katona"
slug: "george-katona"
description: "George Katona was a Hungarian-born American psychologist considered by some to be a founder of behavioral economics."
tagline: "American psychologist (1901–1981)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-11-06"
deathDate: "1981-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.84685269305646
  historical:           7.672318666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Katona"
    title: "George Katona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Katona"
    title: "George Katona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Katona"
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    title: "Джордж Катона"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump