# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kaye-estes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:48.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kaye-estes"
name: "William Kaye Estes"
slug: "william-kaye-estes"
description: "William Kaye Estes was an American psychologist. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Estes as the 77th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. In order to develop a statistical explanation for the learning phenomena, William Kaye Estes developed the Stimulus Sampling Theory in 1950 which suggested that a stimulus-response association is learned by a single trial; however, the learning process is continuous and consists of the accumulation of distinct stimulus-response pairings."
tagline: "American psychologist (1919–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1919-06-17"
deathDate: "2011-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.80846
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump