# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-boring
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:41:47.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-boring"
name: "Edwin Boring"
slug: "edwin-boring"
description: "Edwin Garrigues (Garry) Boring was an American experimental psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Clark University and at Harvard University, who later became one of the first historians of psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Boring as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Dewey, Amos Tversky, and Wilhelm Wundt."
tagline: "American psychologist (1886–1968)"
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birthDate: "1886-10-23"
deathDate: "1968-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump