John Bascom Wolfe (July 8, 1904 – January 5, 1988) was an American social and behavioural psychologist best known for his study of the use of a token economy on chimpanzees.
Married Lillian Schuck (Yale Ph.D. and board certified clinical psychologist, August 31, 1933).
Jobs/Positions: National Research Council Fellow at the Yale University Yerkes Primate Lab, 1932–1936.
Faculty member in Mathematics and Coach of Football, Basketball,[1] and Baseball at Union College, Barbourville, KY 1926–1929.
While Chair he instituted the Ph.D. program in experimental psychology and, with his wife, Lillian Wolfe, as the primary clinician on the faculty the APA certified clinical Ph.D.