22 results for group: distinguished-contributors
2026: Terrie Moffitt
Terrie Moffitt was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2026 meeting in Warsaw, Poland. Terrie is the Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and Professor of Social Development at King’s College London. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California in 1984.
Her work uses long-term longitudinal studies to understand how mental health and behavior develop across the lifespan. Her influential developmental taxonomy distinguished “life-course-persistent” antisocial behavior, which begins in childhood and endures, from “adolescence-limited” ...
2025: William Revelle
William Revelle was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2025 meeting in Evanston, Illinois.
Bill graduated from Pomona College in 1965, spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sarawak, Malaysia, and completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in 1973. He joined the faculty at Northwestern that same year and never left, chairing the psychology department twice along the way.
His research asks how personality, motivation, and cognition fit together. In a series of classic experiments in the 1970s and 1980s, he and his colleagues showed that the effect of arousal on intellectual performance depends on who is being tested and when: ...
2024: Camilla Benbow
Camilla Benbow was interviewed by Elsbeth Stern at the 2024 meeting in Zürich, Switzerland. Swedish-born, Camilla studied at Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees and, in 1981, her doctorate in education with distinction. As an undergraduate in Julian Stanley’s psychological testing class she began helping to run the talent searches of his Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), and she went on to become his final graduate student. In 1980 she and Stanley published a report in Science on sex differences in mathematical reasoning ability among gifted adolescents that remains one of the most ...
2023: Frank Worrell
Frank Worrell was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2023 meeting in Berkeley, California, on the campus where he earned his doctorate and has taught for two decades. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Frank earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at the University of Western Ontario and, after a period teaching school back home in Trinidad, completed his PhD in educational and school psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.
He began his academic career at Pennsylvania State University before returning to Berkeley, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the School of Education. There he ...
2022: Matt McGue
Matt McGue was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2022 meeting in Vienna, Austria. Born in Oakland, California, Matt earned his psychology degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1981, where he studied under Thomas Bouchard. After four years at the Washington University School of Medicine he returned to Minnesota, becoming a full professor in 1992 and, today, a Regents Professor of psychology.
A behavioral geneticist, Matt has spent his career using twins, siblings, and adoptees to disentangle the roles of nature and nurture in human development. He was a co-author of the landmark ...