# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-persinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:38.919Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-persinger"
name: "Michael Persinger"
slug: "michael-persinger"
description: "Michael A. Persinger was an American-Canadian professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he had held from 1971 until his death in 2018. His best-known hypotheses include the temporal lobes of the human brain as the central correlate for mystical experiences, subtle changes in geomagnetic activity as mediators of parapsychological phenomena, the tectonic strain within the Earth's crust as the source of luminous phenomena attributed to unidentified aerial objects, and the importance of specific quantifications for energy, photon flux density, and small shifts in magnetic field intensities for integrating cellular activity as well as human thought with universal phenomena."
tagline: "American-Canadian psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-06-26"
deathDate: "2018-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.913538666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://laurentian.ca/faculty/mpersinger"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مایکل پرسینقر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Persinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger"
    title: "Michael Persinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger"
    title: "Michael Persinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "مایکل پرسینگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger"
    title: "Michael Persinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger"
    title: "Michael Persinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger"
    title: "Michael Persinger"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump