# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-j-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:35.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-j-lerner"
name: "Melvin J. Lerner"
slug: "melvin-j-lerner"
description: "Melvin J. Lerner, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo between 1970 and 1994 and now a visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University, has been called \"a pioneer in the psychological study of justice.\""
tagline: "American psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.57142857142857
  historical:           5.275018666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Melvin J. Lerner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ملفين جاي ليرنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_J._Lerner"
    title: "Melvin J. Lerner"
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  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Melvin_J._Lerner"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ملوین لرنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6813995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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