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 ...
Open Letter to IAEVG board
An Open Letter to the Board and Members of the International Association for Educational and
Vocational Guidance (IAEVG):
The Board of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG) revoked Dr.
Linda Gottfredson's invitation to give a keynote address at the 2018 conference. We write to oppose that
decision, and to propose a remedy for it.
As background, Dr. Gottfredson was invited to give a keynote address. The invitation arose because she is a
seminal figure in vocational counselling, and her circumscription and compromise theory of ...
British Society for Individual Differences (BSPID) Jul 12, 2018 Edinburgh Programme
Venue: Room F21, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ, Edinburgh.
9am: Welcome to BSPID 2018! (registration here)
9:10-10:15: Keynote: Dr. Kathryn Asbury, York University
They called him Scar Boy: How Qualitative Methods can add value to Behavioural Genetics?
10:15-10:45: Morning Tea
10:45-noon: Talks
Yue Li: Do 10-year old children stereotype males as more intellectually brilliant than females? (20")
Huw Davies-Walters: Exploring the relationship between the 2-factor model of Perfectionism and Mental Toughness in Sport.
Yusuke Takahashi: Direction of causation modeling on ...
Keynotes from Montreal now on YouTube
Recordings of Steve Pinker interview, Camilla P. Benbow and David Lubinski Keynote, Jim Flynn Lifetime awardee, and Mat McGue Presidential Invited Address are now up on the society's YouTube Channel!
Like what you see? Then you will love Edinburgh 2018.
The meeting will be held in the historic Royal Society Edinburgh buildings, with a gala Banquet at the Royal College of Physicians. We've got an amazing set of speakers organized, and plenty of fresh ideas for making the conference an intellectually stimulating as well as socially-fun experience. Start planning ...
Talking about cognitive ability in 2017
2017 has already seen more science-lead findings on cognitive ability, and public discussion about the origins, and social and moral implications of ability, than we have had in some time, which should be good news for those seeking to understand and grow cognitive ability. This post brings together some of these events linking talk about differences in reasoning that are so near to our sense of autonomy and identity.
Middlebury
Twenty years ago, when Dr Charles Murray co-authored a book with Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein he opened up a conversation ...
