22 results for group: distinguished-contributors
2013: Nicholas Mackintosh
Nicholas Mackintosh was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2013 meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
Nicholas Mackintosh, who died in 2015, was one of Britain’s most distinguished experimental psychologists. He took his degrees at Oxford and, after posts at Dalhousie and Sussex, led the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge for two decades.
He first made his name studying animal learning, where his work on how animals learn what to attend to produced an influential model of associative learning that still carries his name. In the later part of his career he turned to human intelligence, and his textbook IQ and ...
2012: Richard Haier
Rich Haier was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2012 meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Rich obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1975, working in part with Julian Stanley. His was the first study designed to understand the role of brain function – measured with glucose metabolism (using Positron Emission Tomography: PET, in 1988) – during performance of a measure of abstract reasoning. Interestingly, the relationships were inverse, with higher scores being associated with lower glucose metabolism, a finding that became known as the “neural efficiency hypothesis.” He continued work relating both brain structure and function to intellige...
2011: Douglas Detterman
Douglas Detterman was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2011 meeting in Limassol, Cyprus.
Doug researches intelligence and mental retardation. A professor at Case Western Reserve University, he founded the journal Intelligence, and remains editor in chief. He also founded this society and was its President until 2011.
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2010: Frank Schmidt
Frank Schmidt was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2010 meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.
Frank Schmidt, who died in 2021, was a leading industrial-organizational psychologist. He earned his PhD at Purdue University and spent much of his career at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, where he held the Gary C. Fethke Chair in Leadership.
With his longtime collaborator John Hunter, Schmidt developed the methods of psychometric meta-analysis and validity generalization, which showed that the predictive power of employment tests holds up across organizations and settings once the distorting effects of small samples and measure...
2009: Charles Murray
Charles Murray was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2009 meeting in Madrid, Spain.
Charles Murray is a political scientist and author. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a PhD in political science from MIT, and he has spent much of his career at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
He is the author of several influential and widely debated books on American society, including Losing Ground (1984), Coming Apart (2012), and Human Diversity (2020). For ISIR members he is best known for The Bell Curve (1994), written with the psychologist Richard Herrnstein, which argued that cognitive ability had become a powerful ...