New ISIR board members elected
We are very pleased to announce that Emily Willoughby and Kirsten Hilger have been elected onto the board of ISIR. We are delighted that they have agreed to take on this work, and would like to introduce them below:
Emily is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota in the personality, individual differences and behavior genetics program area of psychology.
Emily’s research focuses on exploring the genetic and cognitive causes of human intelligence in addition to its associated outcomes. Her current projects include an experimental study of the association ...
New open access journal Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PTAD) launched
We are pleased to announce that Hogrefe has just launched “Psychological Test Adaptation and Development” (PTAD), a new open access journal which focusses on publishing articles on the development and adaptation of psychological assessment instruments.
CLICK HERE to download a flyer with all the information you will need to submit your report, and a mission statement from Editor-in-Chief Matthias Ziegler (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany).
All open science and registered reports are welcome on tests for the assessment of intelligence and narrow facets of ...
Ian J. Deary OBE – Second edition of ‘Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction’
Ian J. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. In his Second Edition of his book on intelligence he describes what psychologists have discovered about how and why people differ in their thinking powers. It includes a new chapter on sex difference in intelligence and considers the new field of cognitive epidemiology, which draws links between intelligence and better health, less illness, and longer life. This 2nd edition also includes new work on DNA testing and intelligence genetics and is part of the Oxford University Press Very ...
2015 Lifetime Achievement Award: John Loehlin
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2015 awardee was Professor John Loehlin. Professor Loehlin has contributed to statistics (he has a multi-edition book on structural equation modeling), computational modeling (he wrote some of the earliest simulations in psychology, twin research - he still publishes actively in this field, and, of course in intelligence. He assembled one of the first large twin studies, and over decades ...
