# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-ovsiankina
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:13:25.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-ovsiankina"
name: "Maria Ovsiankina"
slug: "maria-ovsiankina"
description: "Maria Arsenjevna Rickers-Ovsiankina (1898–1993) was a Russian-German-American psychologist. She studied what is now known as the Ovsiankina effect, a variation of the Zeigarnik effect. Ovsiankina worked in a variety of psychology jobs, including working with schizophrenia patients. She wrote books about psychological testing."
tagline: "Russian psychologist (1898-1993)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-05-03"
deathDate: "1993-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.19
  momentum:             3.79762760603882
  historical:           6.551477333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Марія Овсянкіна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا أوفسيانكينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ovsiankina"
    title: "Maria Ovsiankina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ovsiankina"
    title: "Maria Ovsiankina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ovsiankina"
    title: "Maria Ovsiankina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Марија Овсијанкина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Овсянкина, Мария Арсеньевна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1896220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump