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David Lubinski

David J. Lubinski is an American psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences. His work (with Camilla Benbow) has focussed on exceptionally able children: the nature of exceptional ability,[1] the development of people with exceptional ability[2] (in particular meeting the educational needs of gifted children[3] to maximise their talent). He has published widely on the impact of extremely high ability on outputs such as publications, creative writing and art, patents etc.[4]

David Lubinski

United States

American

United States

Research on intelligence, Giftedness

Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Applied Research/Psychometrics), Association for Gifted Children Distinguished Scholar Award

Lubinski has argued against the "threshold hypothesis" which suggests that a certain minimum of IQ might be needed, but higher IQ did not translate into greater productivity or creativity. Instead, he has argued that higher intelligence leads to higher outcomes with no apparent threshold or dropping off of its impact.[5]

Education[edit]

He earned his B.A. and PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1981 and 1987 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1987 to 1990 with Lloyd G. Humphreys. He taught at Iowa State University from 1990 to 1998 and took a position at Vanderbilt University in 1998, where he currently co-directs the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), a longitudinal study of intellectual talent, with Camilla Benbow.[6][7]


In 1994, he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence",[8] an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in The Wall Street Journal, which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to intelligence research following the publication of the book The Bell Curve.


In 1996, he won the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Applied Research/Psychometrics). In 2006, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). In addition to this, his work has earned several Mensa Awards for Research Excellence and the organisations Lifetime Achievement Award.[9] He is an APA Division 1 Fellow. He has edited a book with Camilla Benbow, and another with Rene V. Dawis, and has published over 50 refereed journal articles.

Lubinski, D.; Benbow, C.P.; Kell, H.J. (2014). (PDF). Psychological Science. 25 (12): 2217–2232. doi:10.1177/0956797614551371. PMID 25384550. S2CID 13144084. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2019.

"Life paths and accomplishments of mathematically precocious males and females four decades later"

Lubinski, D.; Benbow, C. P. (2006). "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) after 35 years: Uncovering antecedents for the development of math-science expertise". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 1 (4): 316–343. :10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x. PMID 26151798. S2CID 1739884.

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Lubinski, D.; Benbow, C. P.; Webb, R. M.; Bleske-Rechek, A. (2006). (PDF). Psychological Science. 17 (3): 194–199. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01685.x. PMID 16507058. S2CID 1314771.

"Tracking exceptional human capital over two decades"

via Vanderbilt

David Lubinski webpage

SMPY webpage