John J. McArdle is Professor of Psychology and Gerontology at the

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(USC), where he is also director of the Unified Studies of Cognition (CogUSC) Lab. He is known for his work on quantitative research

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and on the changes in

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and

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that occur as individuals

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Education and career

McArdle received his B.A. from

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in 1973 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He then began postdoctoral work at the

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with

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. In 1984, he joined the faculty of the

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to begin a

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program. In 2005, he joined the faculty of USC, where he started another quantitative research program. He is now a professor of psychology and gerontology at USC, the head of their Quantitative Methods training program, the director of their CogUSC lab, and a co-

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of the

Health and Retirement Study The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of Americans over age 50 conducted by the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor ...

Professional affiliations

McArdle was president of the

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from 1992 to 1993, and of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological & Cognitive Sciences from 1996 to 1999. In 2012, he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Select publications

Books

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Research papers

*McArdle, J. J., Ferrer-Caja, E., Hamagami, F., & Woodcock, R. W. (2002). Comparative longitudinal structural analyses of the growth and decline of multiple intellectual abilities over the life span. Developmental Psychology, 38(1), 115–142. *McArdle, J. J. (2009). Latent variable modeling of differences and changes with longitudinal data. Annual review of psychology, 60, 577–605.

Editing and contributed book chapters

*McArdle, J. J., & Nesselroade, J. R. (2003). Growth curve analysis in contemporary psychological research. In J. A. Schinka & W. F. Velicer (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Research methods in psychology, Vol. 2, pp. 447–480). John Wiley & Sons Inc.

References

External links

Faculty page
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