# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-j-gibson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:23:23.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-j-gibson"
name: "James J. Gibson"
slug: "james-j-gibson"
description: "James Jerome Gibson was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked him as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Woodworth."
tagline: "American psychologist (1904-1979)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1904-01-27"
deathDate: "1979-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.01126549004881712
  historical:           18.22930933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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