Stuart J. Ritchie

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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
InstitutionsKing's College London
Anthropic
ThesisStudies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014)
Doctoral advisorsSergio 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.[1]

Career

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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 writes a newsletter titled Science Fictions for the newspaper i (on Substack prior to 2023) which, like his book of the same name, focuses 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

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  • 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]

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