Stuart J. Ritchie

{{Short description|Scottish psychologist and intelligence researcher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Stuart Ritchie | image = Stuart Ritchie 2024 (cropped).jpg | alt = close-up image of Stuart Ritchie wearing a pastel green shirt, grinning at camera | caption = Ritchie in 2024 | birth_name = Stuart James Ritchie | birth_date =  | birth_place = | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = [[Psychology]] | workplaces = [[King's College London]]<br />[[Anthropic]] | patrons = | education = [[University of Edinburgh]] | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Studies concerning the application of psychological science to education | thesis_url = https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/9846?show=full | thesis_year = 2014 | doctoral_advisors = [[Sergio Della Sala]]<br />Robert McIntosh | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Research on [[human intelligence]] | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''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]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ritchie |first=Stuart |date=9 January 2024 |title=Stuart Ritchie's Tweet |url=https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1744750944183816235 |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=X (formerly Twitter)}}</ref>

==Career== 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]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bodley-head-signs-freakonomics-style-peer-reviews-expose-800746 |title=Bodley Head signs 'Freakonomics-style' peer-reviews exposé |date=6 June 2018 |work=[[The Bookseller]] |access-date=21 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-28639875 |title=Visual process 'key for sharp mind' |last=Mundasad |first=Smitha |date=4 August 2014 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=21 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-study-intl/index.html |title=IQ scores are falling and have been for decades |last=Smith |first=Rory |date=13 June 2018 |work=[[CNN]] |access-date=21 May 2019}}</ref> 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]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sheldrake-wins-royal-society-science-book-prize-illuminating-book-fungi-1291613#:~:text=(Bodley...-,Merlin%20Sheldrake%20has%20won%20the%20%C2%A325%2C000%20Royal%20Society%20Science,important%20but%20little%20understood%20topic%22.|title=Sheldrake Wins Royal Society Science Book Prize with 'Illuminating' Fungi Book |date=29 November 2021 |work=[[The Bookseller]] |access-date=30 November 2021}}</ref> Ritchie wrote a newsletter titled ''Science Fictions'' for the newspaper ''[[i (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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/why-it-seems-were-getting-worse-at-science-2080892 |website=i |title=Why it seems we're getting worse at science |first=Stuart |last=Ritchie |date=12 January 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112195137/https://inews.co.uk/news/why-it-seems-were-getting-worse-at-science-2080892 |archive-date=12 January 2023 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Studies Show Podcast |url=https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/ |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>

==Publications== * ''Intelligence: All That Matters'' (2016, part of [[Teach Yourself]]'s ''All That Matters'' series<ref>{{cite web |website=[[Teach Yourself]] |title=All That Matters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203173606/https://www.teachyourself.co.uk/business-lifestyle/all-that-matters/ |archive-date=3 December 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.teachyourself.co.uk/business-lifestyle/all-that-matters/ }}</ref>) * ''Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth'' (2020)<ref>[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250222695 Publication announcement at ''Macmillan'']</ref>

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==External links== * {{Google Scholar id|9TsCy3IAAAAJ}} * [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/stuart-ritchie Faculty page]

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