A wide-ranging interview with the late professor Nicholas Mackintosh, learning theorist, and distinguished contributor to IQ research
Professor Nicholas Mackintosh passed away in February of 2015.
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, ebullient, and caring man. A generative human being, who made things better, both in his time, and for those who came after him.
We are so pleased to have this enduring record of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh's Distinguished Contributor ...
2014 ISIR lifetime achievement award winner: Ian Deary
2014 ISIR lifetime award winner Ian Deary also to be awarded the 2015 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for his lifetime contributions to the field of applied psychological science!
Read more here, or come and hear his award address at the 27th APS Annual Convention, which will be held May 21–24 in New York City. (several other ISIR members will also be attending!).
Building strength since 1971: Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
Fabulous writeup of the work of ISIR leaders Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski, building on pioneer (and distinguished interviewee) Julian Stanley. So, "How can we set up highly intelligent kids to become highly successful adults?" Read much more here on the Huffington Post.
ISIR talks!
This is a growing list of the awesome talks we had in Graz, which authors have kindly made available via figshare. Please cite them if you use this reference!
Kazi, Smaragda (2015): Embedding Cognizance in Intellectual Development. 10.6084/m9.figshare.1299354
Latvala, Antti (2015): Paternal antisocial behavior and sons’ cognitive ability: A population-based quasi-experimental study. figshare.
Madison, Guy; Mosing, Miriam; Verweij, Karin; Ullén, Fredrik (2015): Common genetic influences on intelligence and simple reaction time. figshare
Rosman, Tom (2015): Intelligence ...
2014 Best Student Methodology Presentation: Paulette Flore
Paulette Flore
Biosketch: Paulette grew up in Heerjansdam, the Netherlands. In 2013 she completed her Research Master in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, with a minor in methodology and statistics. Currently she works as a PhD candidate at Tilburg University at the Department of Methodology and Statistics on a project funded by the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her main research interest is the influence of stereotype threat on mathematical test performance of girls and women. She particularly focuses on the psychometric ...
