# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-berkowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:36:17.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-berkowitz"
name: "Leonard Berkowitz"
slug: "leonard-berkowitz"
description: "Leonard Berkowitz was an American social psychologist best known for his research on altruism and human aggression. He originated the cognitive neoassociation model of aggressive behavior, which was created to help explain instances of aggression for which the frustration-aggression hypothesis could not account."
tagline: "American psychologist (1926–2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-08-11"
deathDate: "2016-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Леонард Бърковиц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump