# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thibaut
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:59.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thibaut"
name: "John Thibaut"
slug: "john-thibaut"
description: "John Walter Thibaut (1917–1986) was a social psychologist, one of the last graduate students of Kurt Lewin. He spent a number of years as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was the first editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology."
tagline: "American social psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917"
deathDate: "1986-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.39
  momentum:             13.5
  historical:           5.470842666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thibaut"
    title: "John Thibaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "جون ثيباوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thibaut"
    title: "John Thibaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Thibaut"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thibaut"
    title: "John Thibaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thibaut"
    title: "John Thibaut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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