Hans Eysenck | |
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Born | Hans Jürgen Eysenck 4 March 1916 |
Died | 4 September 1997 London, England | (aged 81)
Nationality | German |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University College London (PhD) |
Known for | Intelligence, personality psychology, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, differential psychology, education, psychiatry, behaviour therapy |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Institutions | Institute of Psychiatry King's College London |
Thesis | An experimental and statistical investigation of some factors influencing aesthetic judgment (1940) |
Doctoral advisor | Cyril Burt |
Doctoral students | Jeffrey Alan Gray, Donald Prell |
Hans Jürgen Eysenck[1] (/ˈaɪzɛŋk/ EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology.[2][3] At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.[4]
Eysenck's research purported to show that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease. Scholars have identified errors and suspected data manipulation in Eysenck's work, and large replications have failed to confirm the relationships that he purported to find. An enquiry on behalf of King's College London found the papers by Eysenck coauthored with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek to be "incompatible with modern clinical science",[5] with 26 of the joint papers considered "unsafe".[clarification needed][6][7][5] Fourteen papers were retracted in 2020, and over 60 statements of concern were issued by scientific journals in 2020 about publications by Eysenck.[5] David Marks and Rod Buchanan, a biographer of Eysenck, have argued that 87 publications by Eysenck should be retracted.[8][5]
During his life, Eysenck's claims about IQ scores and race, first published in 1971, were a significant source of controversy.[9][10] Eysenck claimed that IQ scores were influenced by genetic differences between racial groups. Eysenck's beliefs on race have been discredited by subsequent research, and are no longer accepted as part of mainstream science.[9][10]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).To many people, Hans Eysenck's name is principally associated with certain claims that he first published in 1971 about the heritability of intelligence and race differences in IQ scores.