Ian Deary

Ian J. Deary ( born May 17, 1954) is a British Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and professor and director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Life

Ian Deary attended from 1966 to 1971, the Hamilton Academy in Lanarkshire. He studied psychology and medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he made his PhD in 1992.

He became known among other things for his follow-up study (2004) of persons who participated in the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and 1947. In this case, all children born in 1921, the Scottish schools visited on June 1, 1932 ( about 87,000 ) were examined. They worked the Moray House Test. Beginning in 1997, was sought by the media for survivors of this investigation and found almost 600, which again between 1998 and 2001 the Moray House Test and Raven's Matrices made ​​then. It has a stability of individual differences in IQ of about r = .66 found and also examined correlates of such mortality. This is one of the longest longitudinal studies with very large sample, which occupies a special position in the history of intelligence research.

Works

• Matthews, G., Deary, IJ & Whiteman, MC ( 2009). Personality traits ( third edition ). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Translated into Romanian. )
• Deary, I. J. ( 2001). Intelligence: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. )
• Deary, I. J. ( 2000). Looking down on human intelligence: from psychometrics to the brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Matthews, G. & Deary, I. J. (1998). Personality traits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.