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2006 ISIR Templeton Prize for Best Student Paper

Greg Park Biosketch: Greg grew up in Columbus, Ohio and received his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University, majoring in psychology and philosophy. He stayed at Case, working as a research assistant with the Western Reserve Twin Project, until entering graduate school in 2005. When awarded, greg was a PhD student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where he published primarily on the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) and effects of IQ on creativity. His research interests include the relationships between creativity, cognitive abilities, and personality, talent development, and evolutionary psychology. Greg ...

2006 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology

Elliot M. Tucker-Drob Cris Rabaglia Jeffrey E. Pink

2006: San Francisco, CA

Host: Douglas Detterman Location: Fisherman's Wharf, San Franciso Program Distinguished Contributor Interview: John Loehlin [youtube id="JDXvUKFM5L0" width="620" height="360"] Invited Address: Dean Simonton Awards Photo Gallery

2005 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology

Nicole Harlaar Biosketch: Nicole Harlaar is a PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. She is interested in the nature and mechanisms that mediate genetic and environmental risk factors for cognitive and learning disabilities and in trying to piece together how these processes change through the school years. Currently, she is examining these issues in a population-based longitudinal study of twin children in the UK Twins Early Development Study (TEDS). Representative Publications: Harlaar, N., Butcher, L. Butcher, L., Meaburn, E., Craig, I.W., & Plomin, R. (2005). A behavioural genomic analysis of DNA markers associated with ...

2005: Albuquerque, NM

Host: Detterman and Gartner Program (Addendum) Invited Speaker: Nancy Andreasen; Aljosha Neubauer Distinguished Contributor Interview: Earl Hunt (YouTube) Awards Photo Gallery