Stuart J. Ritchie
Scottish psychologist and intelligence researcher
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Stuart James Ritchie is a Scottish psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He works at the artificial intelligence research company Anthropic.[1]
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| Born | Stuart James Ritchie |
| Education | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Research on human intelligence |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | King's College London Anthropic |
| Thesis | Studies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014) |
| Doctoral advisors | Sergio Della Sala Robert McIntosh |
Career
Ritchie has served as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London since the summer of 2018. He was previously active in researching intelligence as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh.[2][3][4] In 2021, his book Science Fictions was nominated for the £25,000 Royal Society Prize for Science Books but lost to Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.[5] Ritchie wrote a newsletter titled Science Fictions for the newspaper i (on Substack prior to 2023) which, like his book of the same name, focused on scientific controversies and bias and fraud in scientific research.[6]
Since 2023, he has co-hosted a weekly podcast called The Studies Show with science writer Tom Chivers, where they discuss the studies behind controversial scientific issues.[7]
Publications
- Intelligence: All That Matters (2016, part of Teach Yourself's All That Matters series[8])
- Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (2020)[9]
