4 results for tag: 2016

2016 Lifetime achievment Award: Warner Schaie

The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence. The 2016 awardee 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 Gerontologi...

2016 ISIR Carroll Methodology award

Aiden Loe was awarded the Carroll prize for best methodology in a paper presented at ISIR 2016. Biosketch: Aiden grew up in Singapore. He received his Master of Philosophy in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, where he conducts most of his research work. Aiden's research interest is the design of cognitive and personality tests using artificial intelligence. He develops automatic item generators using algorithmic approaches such as rule-based or machine learning ...

2016 ISIR Prize for Best Student Paper

Christin Lotz Biosketch: Christin obtained her diploma in psychology from the University of Trier, Germany. Currently, she is working on her PhD in educational science at the Saarland University, Germany and is mentored by Jörn Sparfeldt. Her research interests center how intelligence, complex problem solving, and educational attainment are connected. On the base of log-file analyses and SEMs, she investigates how intelligence performance scores as well as intelligence process measures contribute to the understanding of the close relation between intelligence and educational success. Representative Publications: Lotz, C., Scherer R., Greiff, S. ...

2016: St Petersburg, Russia July 15-17

The 2016 local hosts: Yulia Kovas, Tatiana Tikhomirova, and Sergey Malykh. The conference offers an unrivalled opportunity for those interested in intelligence to meet, present their research, and discuss current questions and applications. Welcome Letter here (pdf). And a welcome video here. Conference Guides [one_half last="no"] View or print the ISIR-Flier-2016, Schedule-at-a-glance, Full Program! (pdf), Practical Information, Summer School programme LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ADDRESS K Warner Schaie, founder of the Seattle Longitudinal Study KEYNOTE ADDRESS Yulia Kovas View on YouTube (subscribe to the channel for more great content like ...