John Thibaut

John W. Thibaut
Born1917
Died1986
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisThe Relationship of Group Cohesiveness to Inter-Group Status Differences (1949)
Doctoral advisorDorwin Cartwright
Other academic advisorsKurt Lewin
Doctoral studentsDaniel 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.