Jan Ewald Smedslund (born 1 May 1929) is a Norwegian psychologist.
He was born in Oslo, but grew up in Helsinki and finished his secondary education in Finland before studying psychology at the University of Oslo.
In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a guest scholar in Geneva and at the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University,[1] and he was employed by the Norwegian Institute for Social Research.
[3] He was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1975.
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