# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-t-costa-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:26:48.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-t-costa-jr"
name: "Paul T. Costa, Jr."
slug: "paul-t-costa-jr"
description: "Paul Costa Jr. is an American psychologist associated with the Five Factor Model. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1970."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Paul_Costa_Jr.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/lpc/costa.htm%20NIH"
sources:
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    title: "Paul Costa Jr."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Costa Jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump