Richard J. Herrnstein

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Richard J. Herrnstein was an American psychologist and researcher known for his work on intelligence, behaviorism, and the controversial book "The Bell Curve," which he co-authored with Charles Murray.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Richard J. Herrnstein canonical 3
Richard Julius Herrnstein 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
author
human
psychologist
academicDegree PhD in psychology
bachelor's degree
coAuthorOf The Bell Curve
coAuthorWith Charles Murray
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOfBirth 1930-05-20
dateOfDeath 1994-09-24
doctoralAdvisor B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
surface form: B. F. Skinner
educatedAt City College of New York
Harvard University
employer Harvard University
familyName Herrnstein
fieldOfWork behavioral psychology
behaviorism
intelligence research
psychology
fullName Richard J. Herrnstein self-linksurface differs
surface form: Richard Julius Herrnstein
gender male
givenName Richard
influencedBy B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
surface form: B. F. Skinner
knownFor formulation of the matching law in behavior analysis
research on behaviorism
research on intelligence
work on operant conditioning
languageOfWorkOrName English
nationality American
notableWork IQ in the Meritocracy
The Bell Curve
The Matching Law
occupation psychologist
researcher
university professor
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
United States of America
surface form: United States
researchInterest intelligence and social stratification
learning theory
operant behavior
theory matching law
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Richard J. Herrnstein
Description of subject: Richard J. Herrnstein was an American psychologist and researcher known for his work on intelligence, behaviorism, and the controversial book "The Bell Curve," which he co-authored with Charles Murray.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

James Q. Wilson coAuthorWith Richard J. Herrnstein
James Quinn Wilson coAuthor Richard J. Herrnstein
subject surface form: James Q. Wilson
Crime and Human Nature author Richard J. Herrnstein
Richard J. Herrnstein fullName Richard J. Herrnstein self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Richard Julius Herrnstein