# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-lilienfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:15:52.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-lilienfeld"
name: "Scott Lilienfeld"
slug: "scott-lilienfeld"
description: "Scott Owen Lilienfeld was a professor of psychology at Emory University and advocate for evidence-based treatments and methods within the field. He is known for his books 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology, Brainwashed, and others that explore and sometimes debunk psychological claims that appear in the popular press. Along with having his work featured in major U.S. newspapers and journals such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Scientific American, Lilienfeld made television appearances on 20/20, CNN and the CBS Evening News."
tagline: "American psychologist (1960-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_O._Lilienfeld_at_CSICON_2012.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1960-12-23"
deathDate: "2020-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.415516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lilienfeld"
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    title: "سکاٹ لیلین فیلڈ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump