# Stuart J. Ritchie > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stuart_J._Ritchie > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stuart_J._Ritchie.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Ritchie > Source revision: 1342392455 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Scottish psychologist and intelligence researcher Stuart Ritchie Ritchie in 2024 Born Stuart James Ritchie Education University of Edinburgh Known for Research on human intelligence Scientific career Fields Psychology Institutions King's College London Anthropic Thesis Studies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014) Doctoral advisors Sergio Della Sala Robert McIntosh **Stuart James Ritchie** is a Scottish psychologist and science communicator known for his research in [human intelligence](/source/Human_intelligence). He works at the [artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence) research company [Anthropic](/source/Anthropic).[1] ## Career Ritchie has served as a lecturer at the [Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience](/source/Institute_of_Psychiatry%2C_Psychology_and_Neuroscience) at [King's College London](/source/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](/source/University_of_Edinburgh).[2][3][4] In 2021, his book *[Science Fictions](/source/Science_Fictions)* was nominated for the £25,000 [Royal Society Prize for Science Books](/source/Royal_Society_Prize_for_Science_Books) but lost to Merlin Sheldrake's *[Entangled Life](/source/Entangled_Life)*.[5] Ritchie wrote a newsletter titled *Science Fictions* for the newspaper *[i](/source/I_(newspaper))* (on [Substack](/source/Substack) prior to 2023) which, like his book of the same name, focused 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 - *Intelligence: All That Matters* (2016, part of [Teach Yourself](/source/Teach_Yourself)'s *All That Matters* series[8]) - *Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth* (2020)[9] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ritchie, Stuart (9 January 2024). ["Stuart Ritchie's Tweet"](https://x.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1744750944183816235). *X (formerly Twitter)*. Retrieved 2 June 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Bodley Head signs 'Freakonomics-style' peer-reviews exposé"](https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bodley-head-signs-freakonomics-style-peer-reviews-expose-800746). *[The Bookseller](/source/The_Bookseller)*. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Mundasad, Smitha (4 August 2014). ["Visual process 'key for sharp mind'"](https://www.bbc.com/news/health-28639875). *[BBC News](/source/BBC_News)*. Retrieved 21 May 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Smith, Rory (13 June 2018). ["IQ scores are falling and have been for decades"](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-study-intl/index.html). *[CNN](/source/CNN)*. Retrieved 21 May 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Sheldrake Wins Royal Society Science Book Prize with 'Illuminating' Fungi Book"](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.). *[The Bookseller](/source/The_Bookseller)*. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Ritchie, Stuart (12 January 2023). ["Why it seems we're getting worse at science"](https://inews.co.uk/news/why-it-seems-were-getting-worse-at-science-2080892). *i*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230112195137/https://inews.co.uk/news/why-it-seems-were-getting-worse-at-science-2080892) from the original on 12 January 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["The Studies Show Podcast"](https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/). Retrieved 13 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["All That Matters"](https://www.teachyourself.co.uk/business-lifestyle/all-that-matters/). *[Teach Yourself](/source/Teach_Yourself)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20211203173606/https://www.teachyourself.co.uk/business-lifestyle/all-that-matters/) from the original on 3 December 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Publication announcement at *Macmillan*](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250222695) ## External links - [Stuart J. Ritchie](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9TsCy3IAAAAJ) publications indexed by [Google Scholar](/source/Google_Scholar) - [Faculty page](https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/stuart-ritchie) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Czech Republic Norway Israel Academics ORCID Scopus Google Scholar Other IdRef Open Library Yale LUX This biography of a Scottish academic is a stub. 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