David Hambrick’s recent New York Times opinion piece—“I.Q. Points for Sale, Cheap”—warns that we should be skeptical of the recent studies that claim to show that intelligence can be improved through ...

I recently reported in this blog on a new paper of mine published in the journal Learning and Individual Differences (Cassidy et al., 2016). That paper described two experiments in which an ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...