# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-hoffman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:30:18.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-hoffman"
name: "Donald Hoffman"
slug: "donald-hoffman"
description: "Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine."
tagline: "American cognitive psychologist and popular science author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonaldHoffman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman"
    title: "Donald D. Hoffman"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman"
    title: "Donald D. Hoffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דונלד ד. הופמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald D. Hoffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump