About John Gibbon
Lived 1934 – 2001 (aged 66–67). John Gibbon was an American psychologist.
John Gibbon (born in Philadelphia on February 12, 1934) was a psychology professor at Columbia University. He was the son of John Heysham Gibbon. His contributions to scalar timing and scalar expectancy theory (1977) are considered major theoretical contributions. Together with Russell Church and Warren Meck he published the scalar timing model (1984). He died in Ossining, New York, on January 16, 2001.
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American psychologist
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John Gibbon was born in 1934.
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