# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-dolan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:11:19.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-dolan"
name: "Paul Dolan"
slug: "paul-dolan"
description: "Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department in Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Director of the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science which began in September 2014. Dolan conducts research on the measurement of happiness, its causes and consequences, and the implications for public policy, publishing in both scholarly and popular outlets. He has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial College London and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of three popular press books: Happiness by Design, Happy Ever After, and Beliefism, and the creator and presenter of the Duck-Rabbit podcast."
tagline: "British behavioural scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Dolan_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.022471910112359
  historical:           6.160297333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Долан, Пол (учёный)"
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    title: "بول دولان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dolan_(Soziologe)"
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    title: "پل دولان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Փոլ Դոլան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Փոլ Տոլան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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