# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-kamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:58:17.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-kamin"
name: "Leon Kamin"
slug: "leon-kamin"
description: "Leon J. Kamin was an American psychologist known for his contributions to learning theory and his critique of estimates of the heritability of IQ. He studied under Richard Solomon at Harvard and contributed several important ideas about conditioning, including the \"blocking effect\"."
tagline: "American psychologist (1927-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Leon_Kamin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1927-12-29"
deathDate: "2017-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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