# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-eysenck
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:00:07.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-eysenck"
name: "Michael Eysenck"
slug: "michael-eysenck"
description: "Michael William Eysenck is a British academic psychologist, and is an Emeritus Professor in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He also holds an appointment as Professorial Fellow at Roehampton University. His research focuses on the interaction between anxiety and cognitive processes. Eysenck has written and co-written many publications, including several textbooks. In the late 1990s, he developed the theory of the \"hedonic treadmill\", stating that humans are predisposed by genetics to plateau at a certain level of happiness, and that the occurrence of novel happy events merely elevates this level temporarily."
tagline: "British psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.28
  momentum:             0.04366812227074235
  historical:           3.941613333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ميخائيل آيزنك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB_%D0%90%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Майкъл Айзенк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Eysenck"
    title: "Michael W. Eysenck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Eysenck"
    title: "Michael Eysenck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1467600"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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