# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-beck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:59:37.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-beck"
name: "Don Beck"
slug: "don-beck"
description: "Don Edward Beck was an American teacher, geopolitical advisor, and theorist who focused on applications of large scale psychology, including social psychology, evolutionary psychology, organizational psychology and their effect on human sociocultural systems. He was the co-author of the Spiral Dynamics theory, an evolutionary human development model adapted from the work of his mentor and colleague, developmental psychologist Clare W. Graves, Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Union College in New York, with whom he worked for over a decade."
tagline: "American psychologist (1937–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Beck_color-corrected.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-01-31"
deathDate: "2022-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.082290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.spiraldynamics.net"
sources:
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    title: "Don Beck"
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    title: "دون إدوارد بيك"
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    title: "دون ادوارد بک"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Beck_(Unternehmensberater)"
    title: "Don Beck (Unternehmensberater)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Edward_Beck"
    title: "Don Edward Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Beck"
    title: "Don Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Beck"
    title: "Don Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Beck"
    title: "Don Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бек, Дон Эдвард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump