John Thibaut
John W. Thibaut | |
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| Born | 1917 |
| Died | 1986 (aged 68–69) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Thesis | The Relationship of Group Cohesiveness to Inter-Group Status Differences (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dorwin Cartwright |
| Other academic advisors | Kurt Lewin |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Stokols, Virginia Andreoli Mathie |
John Walter Thibaut (1917–1986) was a social psychologist, one of the last graduate students of Kurt Lewin. He spent a number of years as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was the first editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.