22 results for group: distinguished-contributors
2019: Randall W. Engle
Randy Engle was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2019 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Randy earned his bachelor’s degree at West Virginia State College and his PhD in experimental psychology at Ohio State University in 1973. After many years at the University of South Carolina, he became chair of the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995, a post he held for more than a decade and where he remains a professor of psychology today.
His research addresses one of the central questions in the study of the mind: why people differ in working memory, the limited capacity to hold and use information in the moment. Randy ...
2017: Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2017 meeting in Montreal, Canada, the city where he was born. Pinker earned his bachelor’s degree at McGill University and his PhD in experimental psychology at Harvard in 1979. He spent two decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning to Harvard, where he is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology.
A cognitive scientist and psycholinguist, Pinker made his name studying how children acquire language and how the mind represents it. With the linguist Alan Prince he argued that regular and irregular word forms are handled by two different mental systems—a combin...
2016: Linda Gottfredson
Linda Gottfredson was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2016 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Linda Gottfredson is professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. She is best known for her work on the relationships between intelligence and health, everyday life, social inequality, and employment testing and job aptitude demands, and for writing the 1994 letter "Mainstream Science on Intelligence".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYW3eL...
2015: Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2015 meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Robert has worked extensively in twin research, perhaps most notably leading the TEDS project. More recently he has contributed to molecular genetic work on intelligence. He has authored numerous books, nearing 1000 articles, and presented numerous invited and public talks and debates, advancing the scientific study of intelligence. Several of his students now also occupy research positions, working in individual differences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDWj_idj8w
2014: Ian Deary
Ian Deary was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2014 meeting in Graz, Austria.
Interviewed for his Lifetime Achievement Award, Professor Deary summed up his work as follows:
"I feel like four different people in intelligence research,” says ISIR’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2014, Ian Deary. “I started by being, and still am, intrigued by the fact that simple-seeming measures of processing speed correlate strongly with higher-level cognitive abilities. There are still many miles to go on that road. My research changed a lot in the 1990s, when we stumbled on the Scottish Mental Surveys’ data. Since then, I’ve assembled ...