10 results for group: board-member
Elsbeth Stern
Elsbeth is Professor of Empirical Research on Learning and Instruction and head of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at the ETH Zurich. She studied psychology and received her doctoral degree from the University of Hamburg in 1986. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, she began to study the interaction between intelligence, prior knowledge, and learning in STEM fields. She continued this line of research as Professor at the University of Leipzig (1994), at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (1997), and ...
Timothy C. Bates
Timothy is Professor of Individual Differences in Psychology, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh. After earning a Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at University of Auckland, he worked in Sydney before moving to Edinburgh. His research has spanned causal inference, genome-wide association studies in dyslexia, DNA-based methods for causal inference regarding parental effects (non-transmitted genomes) and cognitive-experimental approaches in the psychology of individual differences. He is also active in Evolutionary Psychology, especially the psychological motives involved in values such as wealth redistribution. His current focus is ...
John Protzko
John is Assistant Professor in the department for Psychological Science at Central Connecticut State University. He is also an Associate Director of the Psychological Science Accelerator.
His research focuses around causality and causal assumptions, with applied applications in three broad areas:
1) Theories of intelligence and cognitive development. This research focuses on long-term effects of interventions on cognitive development (e.g. the Fadeout Effect) and the implications of those findings on theories of intelligence. It also encompasses experimental psychometrics work understanding how we can test our theories of the positive manifold....
Roberto Colom
Roberto studied Psychology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where he received his PhD in 1989. He is currently Professor of Differential Psychology at the Dpt. of Biological and Health Psychology in the same university, and he has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and supervising PhD students since 1990. He has authored 16 books (technical and for a general audience), edited 6 books, and published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles.
The vast majority of his research efforts is focused on human intelligence. Perhaps the key feature of his history as a scientist is the large network of collaborations with research ...
Guy Madison
Guy is professor of Psychology at the University of Umeå in Sweden.
Guy completed his PhD in 2001 at the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University, following studies also in musicology and computer science. His dissertation and Post Doc work was concerned with human timing modelling, later extended to timing in music and its effects on subjective experience and movement behaviours. His interests also cover evolution, human nature, and cognitive ability, leading to studies of individual differences in creativity, flow, intelligence, and personality. In 2012-2018 he co-directed a comprehensive twin study of both environmental and genetic ...