Roberto Colom - University of Madrid
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Roberto Colom  is Professor of Psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and researches the psychometric, cognitive, and biological bases of intelligence (cognitive ability) and personality.

William T. Dickens - University of Maryland
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William T. Dickens is the Thomas Schelling Visiting Professor in the Public Policy School at the University of Maryland a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at The Brookings Institution, and a consultant to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. His areas of expertise are labor markets, wage determination, unemployment, monetary policy, inner-city employment problems, effects of trade on employment and wages, intelligence testing, and
psychology and economics.

James Flynn - University of Otago
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Author of six books, Prof Flynn has combined political and moral philosophy with psychology to clarify problems such as justifying humane ideals and whether it makes sense to rank races and classes by merit. Professor Flynn has been profiled in Scientific American and ran for the New Zealand Parliament in 1993 and 1996 as Alliance candidate for Dunedin North. Research Interests: Humane ideals and ideological debate; classics of political philosophy; race, class and IQ.

Han L. J. van der Maas  - University of Amsterdam
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Professor and Chair of the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam.

 

 

Jelte M. Wicherts - University of Amsterdam

Jelte Wicherts studied psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam. In 2002 he received his MSc (cum laude) with a thesis on the equivalence of various questionnaires across administration methods (paper&pencil vs. computerized). In March 2007 he received his PhD (cum laude) from the Psychological Methods Department of the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled: Group differences in intelligence test performance. Currently he is an assistant professor at the Psychological Methods group. In April 2007 he received a Veni-grant (208.000 euros) from the Netherlands Organization of Research (NWO). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Intelligence.

Linda Gottfredson - University of Delaware

Linda S. Gottfredson is professor in the School of Education and Affiliated Faculty in the Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She serves on the editorial board of Intelligence and the board of directors of the International Society for Intelligence Research. Dr. Gottfredson is perhaps most widely known for her clear, rigorous, and forthright analyses of individual and group differences in intelligence, especially as they affect life chances and public policy. Her current research focuses on the role of patient intelligence in health self-care, including adherence to treatment, self-management of chronic illness, and accident prevention. She received her PhD in 1976 from the Johns Hopkins University.

Richard Nisbett  - University of Michigan

Richard Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Nisbett's research interests are in social cognition, culture, social class and aging. he received his Ph.D from Columbia University and his A.B. from Tufts University. In 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

David Grissmer  - University of Virginia

David Grissmer is a senior management scientist at RAND. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Purdue University. His education research includes teacher supply and demand, teacher compensation and attrition patterns, analysis of national test scores to determine the causes of changing trends, analyzing state test scores to determine causes of state differences, and effects of class size reductions. He is currently working with the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House to assess the federal research and development portfolio on children and methods of improving research on children. His current work also includes developing estimates of the number and location of children at educational risk in the U.S. and analyzing achievement patterns in central city, suburban, and rural schools.

John Loehlin  - University of Texas, Austin

John Loehlin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was born in India in 1926 of U. S. missionary parents, and attended mission schools in that country. He received an A.B. in English from Harvard in 1947, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1957. He has served as president of the Behavior Genetics Association and of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology.  His research has chiefly focused on the genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in normal human personality traits and abilities; he has also been concerned with racial differences and with computer modeling.

Eric Turkheimer  - University of Virginia

Eric Turkheimer received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1976 and studied clinical psychology and behavior genetics under Lee Willerman and John Loehlin at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas in 1985 and a clinical intership at the University of California, San Francisco in 1986, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Virginia where he currently Professor and Director of Clinical Training.