14 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2012: Timothy Salthouse
The 2012 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor Timothy Salthouse.
His work has transformed our understanding of cognitive development, especially cognitive ageing. As with many of our lifetime awardees, he has been an influential communicator, and his students have taken prestigious positions, further advancing and shaping the direction of his field.
2013: Linda Gottfredson
ISIR's 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner was Professor Linda Gottfredson, 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".
2014: Ian Deary
The 2014 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor Ian Deary
Interviewed for the 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 research teams to try to ...
2015: John Loehlin
The 2015 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor John Loehlin.
Professor Loehlin has contributed to statistics (he has a multi-edition book on structural equation modeling), computational modeling (he wrote some of the earliest simulations in psychology, twin research - he still publishes actively in this field, and, of course in intelligence. He assembled one of the first large twin studies, and over decades now, has contributed some of the most innovative, rigorous, courageous, and poetic work in differential psychology.
2016: K. Warner Schaei
The 2016 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor K Warner Schaie, founder of the Seattle Longitudinal Study.
Professor Schaie's work link gerontology with social and psychological science. Realizing the need for longitudinal research, he founded the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Since the 1950s, this work has revealed complex patterns of preservation, decline, and advance, alongside links to lifestyle and social factors. Alongside the ISIR award, Schaie has been honoured by the Gerontological Society of America, APA, and Mensa.