Stuart J. Ritchie

Stuart Ritchie
close-up image of Stuart Ritchie wearing a pastel green shirt, grinning at camera
Ritchie in 2024
Born
Stuart James Ritchie
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forResearch on human intelligence
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
WorkplacesKing's College London
Anthropic
ThesisStudies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014)
Sergio Della Sala
Robert McIntosh

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.

Career

Ritchie formerly 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. 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. 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.

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.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Ritchie, Stuart (9 January 2024). "Stuart Ritchie's Tweet". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Bodley Head signs 'Freakonomics-style' peer-reviews exposé". The Bookseller. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  3. ↑ Mundasad, Smitha (4 August 2014). "Visual process 'key for sharp mind'". BBC News. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Smith, Rory (13 June 2018). "IQ scores are falling and have been for decades". CNN. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "Sheldrake Wins Royal Society Science Book Prize with 'Illuminating' Fungi Book". The Bookseller. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Ritchie, Stuart (12 January 2023). "Why it seems we're getting worse at science". i. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "The Studies Show Podcast". Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "All That Matters". Teach Yourself. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021.
  9. ↑ Publication announcement at Macmillan