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Leon Kamin

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American psychologist (1927-2017)

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Born: 1927-12-29
Died: 2017-12-22
Works: 3

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Intelligence
Der intelligenz-quotient in wissenschaft und politik

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5 total works indexed

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
· 1957 · cited 16,807x
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
· 1954 · cited 14,152x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,054x
PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 11,765x
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,075x

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Key dates

Born: 29 December 1927
Died: 22 December 2017

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Instance of: human
Given name: Leon
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Taunton
Occupation: psychologist
Educated at: Harvard University
Employer: Northeastern University
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Guggenheim Fellowship

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Richard Lewontin

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1927 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American psychologists Academic staff of the University of Cape Town American intelligence researchers Harvard College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Jewish American psychologists Northeastern University faculty People from Taunton, Massachusetts People involved in race and intelligence controversies

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psychology

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Harvard University

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Princeton University

Joseph McCarthy

Edward O. Wilson

McGill University

University of Cape Town

evolutionary psychology

Princeton University faculty

What links here64 pages

On Human Nature

Richard Lewontin

group selection

nature versus nurture

1974 in science

sexual selection in human evolution

Dunbar's number

Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence

biological determinism

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Richard Dawkins

Standard social science model

Deaths in December 2017

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