22 results for group: distinguished-contributors
2003: Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2003 meeting in Riverside, California.
Art Jensen was professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of over 400 scientific papers and half a dozen books, he was best known for his research in psychometrics, educational psychology and academic achievement, mental chronometry, and the role of genetics in human behavior. He sat on the editorial boards of the journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.
The field of intelligence research lost Arthur Jensen in 2012. In his obituary, James Flynn best summed up his contributions:
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2002: Julian C. Stanley
Julian Stanley was interviewed by Camilla Benbow at the 2002 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
This was the very first of ISIR’s Distinguished Contributor Interviews, and it was a fitting pairing: Camilla Benbow had been Julian Stanley’s student, and she carried on the work he began.
Julian Stanley, who died in 2005, was an educational psychologist at Johns Hopkins University. In 1971 he founded the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), using above-level testing to identify children with exceptional mathematical talent and then following their lives for decades. The talent searches he pioneered grew into the Center for Talented ...