# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-zajonc
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:35.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-zajonc"
name: "Robert Zajonc"
slug: "robert-zajonc"
description: "Robert Bolesław Zajonc was a Polish social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes. One of his most important contributions to social psychology is the mere-exposure effect. Zajonc also conducted research in the areas of social facilitation, and theories of emotion, such as the affective neuroscience hypothesis."
tagline: "American psychologist (1923–2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-11-23"
deathDate: "2008-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.11
  momentum:             10.23374726077429
  historical:           11.850436
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "روبرت زايونتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Zajonc"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zajonc"
    title: "Robert Zajonc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zajonc"
    title: "Robert Zajonc"
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    title: "رابرت زاینتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Zajonc"
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    title: "Robert Zajonc"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump