Nathan Brody

Nathan Brody
EducationUniversity of New Hampshire
University of Michigan
Known forWork on intelligence and personality
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
WorkplacesWesleyan University
ThesisDemand for certainty, motivation, and the decision process (1961)

Nathan Brody is an American psychology professor Emeritus known for his work on intelligence and personality.

Brody completed a BA at the University of New Hampshire and an MA and PhD at the University of Michigan. He taught at Wesleyan University and is currently there a professor emeritus.

Brody was part of an 11-member 1995 American Psychological Association task force led by Ulric Neisser which published Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, a report written in response to The Bell Curve. He was one of the contributors to the 1998 special issue devoted to Arthur Jensen in Intelligence, where he praised Jensen's work as a "formidable contribution" to the topic of race and intelligence, despite disagreeing about some points.

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References

  1. ↑ Seligman, Daniel (November 25, 1996). Quotas for Smart kids. Forbes. CNN. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ Brody, Nathan (January 1998). "Jensen and intelligence". Intelligence. 26 (3): 243–247. doi:10.1016/s0160-2896(99)80007-5. ISSN 0160-2896.