Ian Deary
| Ian J. Deary | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1954 |
| Residence | Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | Psychology, Medicine, Epidemiology, Genetics, Behavior Genetics, Neuroscience |
| Institutions | The University of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | The University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | Chris Brand |
| Known for | Research on intelligence, personality, ageing, and cognitive epidemiology |
Ian J. Deary FBA, FRSE, FMedSci, is a Scottish psychologist known for work in the fields of intelligence, cognitive ageing, cognitive epidemiology, and personality.
Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at The University of Edinburgh. He is Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and co-Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre.
Ian Deary has contributed to numerous topics in intelligence research. For instance, he has conducted several studies into the relationship between intelligence and elementary cognitive tasks such as reaction time and inspection time, and has investigated the overlap between intelligence and educational achievement.
Deary was a founder of the field of cognitive epidemiology, which studies the relationship of intelligence to health outcomes. He described and discussed cognitive epidemiology in a 2010 article for the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
A 2010 review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, co-authored by Deary, described research on the neuroscience of intelligence differences. In 2012, the journal Annual Review of Psychology published an overview of the field of intelligence research, authored by Deary.
Deary has authored over 800 articles in academic journals. His h-index calculated by Thomson Reuters's Web of Science is 74, and calculated by Google Scholar is 108.
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