For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

PEOPLE OR PLACE: Samuel Putnam delivers his inaugural lecture as an endowed chair of social sciences in Mills Hall. Putnam ...

New research complicates the old consensus that IQ is largely fixed, and that's good news for anyone looking to boost their ...

Are we destined to be smart? Twin studies reveal strong genetic roots for IQ, yet up to a third of intelligence is shaped by environment, context, and choice.

Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which awarded him the Dobzhansky Prize ...

New research suggests that education can raise IQ by up to 15 points—even among identical twins—challenging determinism and revealing intelligence to be more malleable than we once believed.

“Professor Putnam is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on a fascinating question of how biological and ...