# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-yerkes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:55:21.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-yerkes"
name: "Robert Yerkes"
slug: "robert-yerkes"
description: "Robert Mearns Yerkes was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology."
tagline: "American psychologist (1876–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%99%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1876-05-26"
deathDate: "1956-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.83290013284815
  historical:           14.845576
  currentAttention:     8.4
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Robert Yerkes"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Yerkes"
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    title: "رابرت یرکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Yerkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Yerkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Yerkes"
    title: "Robert Yerkes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump