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ISIR President Earl B Hunt: 1933-2016
Professor Earl "Buz" Hunt passed away peacefully early on April 13.
His wife, Mary Lou, passed on this sad information for us:
Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues of Buz Hunt:
Early this morning my husband and best friend, Earl "Buz" Hunt died peacefully in his sleep. He left this world snuggled next to me just as he has for the past 61 years of our marriage Buz was a brilliant scientist, devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend to many. He inspired all who knew him, gave much more than he took in life and leaves a legacy that will live on through his children, grandchildren, scientific contributions and the many people whose lives he touched ...
Ruben Arslan: 2015 John B. Carroll Award for Methodology
Ruben Arslan
Biosketch:
Ruben was born in Aachen, Germany, and studied psychology at Humboldt University Berlin. He is now working toward a PhD at the Georg August University Göttingen in the Biological Personality Lab with Lars Penke.
His research interests have an evolutionary angle on individual differences in common. He has studied paternal age effects on intelligence, personality, mortality and fertility. He hopes to gain an understanding of mutational influences on individual differences and by extension the genetic architecture of traits such as intelligence.
Representative publications:
Preprint: Arslan, R. C., Willführ, K. P., Frans, ...
Abstract submission deadline extended till April 10!
Lot's of great abstracts already in: And you now have until April 10 to submit yours!
2015 Lifetime Achievement Award: John Loehlin
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 2015 awardee 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 ...
Why stupid mistakes happen (hint, it often involves not thinking)
ISIR member Zach Hambrick has a nice article on the Scientific American web site on the psychology of errors. It's a nice outline of the mechanisms for errors and the role of IQ in these.