Robert Plomin
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Robert Joseph Plomin (born 1948) is an American/British psychologist, geneticist, and professor at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.[1] He mainly works within behavioural genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[2] He is the author of several books on genetics and psychology.
Biography
Plomin was born in Chicago to a family of Polish-German extraction.[3] He graduated high school from DePaul University Academy in Chicago, he then earned a B.A. in psychology from DePaul University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1974 from the University of Texas at Austin under personality psychologist Arnold H. Buss.[4] He then worked at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder. From 1986 until 1994 he worked at Pennsylvania State University, studying elderly twins reared apart and twins reared together to study aging. Since 1994 he has been at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). He has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association.
In 1987 Plomin married Judith Dunn, a British psychologist and academic.[5]
Honors and awards
In 2002, the Behavior Genetics Association awarded him the Dobzhansky Memorial Award for a Lifetime of Outstanding Scholarship in Behavior Genetics. He was awarded the William James Fellow Award by the Association for Psychological Science in 2004 and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Intelligence Research.[6][7] In 2017, Plomin received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.[8] Plomin has been ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century.[2] In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences.[5]
Plomin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to scientific research.[9]
Research
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As of 2000, Plomin conducted the Twins Early Development Study of all twins born in England from 1994 to 1996, focusing on developmental delays in early childhood, their association with behavioural problems and educational attainment.[11]
Bibliography
- Behavioral Genetics: A Primer, together with John C. DeFries, Gerald E. McClearn, WH Freeman & Co, 1989, Template:ISBN
- Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different, together with Judy Dunn, Basic Books, 1992, Template:ISBN
- Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era, together with John C. DeFries, Peter McGuffin, Ian W. Craig, American Psychological Association, 2002, Template:ISBN
- The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development (Adolescent Lives), together with David Reiss, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, E. Mavis Hetherington, Harvard University Press, 2003, Template:ISBN
- Nature, Nurture, and the Transition to Early Adolescence, together with John C. DeFries, Stephen A. Petrill, John K. Hewitt, Oxford University Press, 2003, Template:ISBN
- Nature And Nurture: An Introduction To Human Behavioral Genetics, Wadsworth Publishing, 2004, Template:ISBN
- Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood, together with John C. DeFries, David Fulker, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN
- Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Peter McGuffin, Gerald E. McClearn, Worth Publishers; 5th edition, 2008, Template:ISBN
- Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 6th edition, 2012, Template:ISBN
- G Is for Genes, together with Kathryn Ashbury, Wiley Blackwell; 2013, Template:ISBN
- Behavioral Genetics, together with John C. DeFries, Valerie S Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Worth Publishers; 7th edition, 2016, Template:ISBN
- Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, Penguin Books Ltd., 2018, Template:ISBN
References
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External links
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Academics of King's College London
- 21st-century American psychologists
- Behavior geneticists
- DePaul University alumni
- Fellows of King's College London
- Fellows of the British Academy
- American intelligence researchers
- Pennsylvania State University faculty
- People involved in race and intelligence controversies
- University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
- University of Colorado Boulder faculty
- Personality psychologists
- Health professionals from Chicago
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- American emigrants to England
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- 20th-century American psychologists
- APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients