# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-c-hayes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:04:32.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-c-hayes"
name: "Steven C. Hayes"
slug: "steven-c-hayes"
description: "Steven C. Hayes is an American clinical psychologist and Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Psychology, where he is a faculty member in their Ph.D. program in behavior analysis. He is known for developing relational frame theory, an account of human higher cognition, and as the co-developer of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods, and is the co-developer of process-based therapy, a new approach to evidence-based therapies more generally. He also coined the term clinical behavior analysis."
tagline: "American psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "drstevenchayes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump