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Dunnette Prize

Dunnette Prize Is there someone whom you would like to nominate for a $50,000 cash prize? The recipient will have made "programmatic, significant, and lasting contributions to understanding the causal nature of individual differences on behaviour and performance". The deadline for accepting nominations is June 30, 2019. To read more about the award criteria and to start a nomination, please click HERE  To read a press release, please click HERE

ISIR BOARD: VOTING OPEN NOW

It's nearly time to vote for new additions to the ISIR Board. To see the current roster of those serving on the Board, please click here

ISIR2019 and the MOVIES

Three Identical Strangers and the ISIR conference The movie Three Identical Strangers combines an intriguing narrative with an implicit discussion of nature and nurture. How much of the way we turn out is influenced by genes? Is it ethical to assign related children to different adoptive families for the sake of 'science'? Fortunately, there has been much progress since the early, never-published study featured in the movie. But if your interest was primed, and you want to learn about published, well-powered, ethical studies of multiple births, there will be a chance to do that this summer. Professor Tom Bouchard is unmistakably The Big Kahuna in ...

Professor Ian Deary awarded OBE

Professor Ian Deary, University of Edinburgh, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list 2019 for his services to social sciences. Ian is known to many in ISIR for his research on cognitive abilities. He led globally unique studies using intelligence test scores that had been collected from around 95% of the entire population of Scotland in 1932 and 1947. Hundreds of reports with the data from these Scottish Mental Surveys have explored relationships among cognition, health and lifespan; this work contributed to his founding the field of cognitive epidemiology. Learning what contributes to healthy ageing is a major challenge for ...

2013: Melbourne, Australia: December 12-14

The conference program is here (pdf). Lifetime Achievement Award: Linda Gottfredson: Empirical Treasure, Lost and Found Distinguished contributor Interview: Nicholas Mackintosh Update: Professor Nicholas Mackintosh passed away in February of 2015. We are so pleased to have this enduring record of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh's Distinguished Contributor Interview. He is keenly missed. Among academics he was remembered by colleagues as, variously, a pioneer in associative learning theory, a wonderful head of department at Cambridge, and a leading promoter of calm and honest thinking about IQ. He was universally remembered as a decent, ebulli...