# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-decety
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:00:37.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-decety"
name: "Jean Decety"
slug: "jean-decety"
description: "Jean Decety is an American–French neuroscientist specializing in developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cognition, particularly social decision-making, empathy, moral reasoning, altruism, pro-social behavior, and more generally interpersonal relationships. He is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Decety_University_of_Chicago_September_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.410404000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/Decety"
    handle:    "Decety"
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Decety"
    title: "Jean Decety"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Decety"
    title: "Jean Decety"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump