# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-janis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:57:37.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-janis"
name: "Irving Janis"
slug: "irving-janis"
description: "Irving Lester Janis was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of \"groupthink\", which described the systematic errors made by groups when making collective decisions. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Janis as the 79th most cited psychologist of the 20th century."
tagline: "American psychologist (1918–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-05-26"
deathDate: "1990-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump