Keith E. Stanovich is a Canadian psychologist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the

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and former

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of Applied Cognitive Science. His research areas are the

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and the psychology of reading. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is, how it works, and what it does for the mind. His research on the cognitive basis of rationality has been featured in the journal ''

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'' and in recent books by Yale University Press and University of Chicago Press. His book ''What Intelligence Tests Miss'' won the 2010

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in Education. He received the 2012 E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association.

Academic career

Stanovich has done extensive research on reading, language disabilities, and the psychology of rational thought. His classic article on the

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in education has been cited over 1,000 times in the scientific literature. He is the author of over 175 scientific articles, several of which have become Current Contents Citation Classics. Stanovich coined the term

dysrationalia Dysrationalia is defined as the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence. It is a concept in educational psychology and is not a clinical disorder such as a thought disorder. Dysrationalia can be a resource to help ex ...

to refer to the tendency toward irrational thinking and action despite adequate intelligence. In several recent books, he has explored the concept as well as the relation between rationality and intelligence. In his book ''The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking'', Stanovich and colleagues follow through on the claim that a comprehensive test of rational thinking is scientifically possible, given current knowledge. In a three-year survey of citation rates during the mid-1990s, Stanovich was listed as one of the fifty most-cited developmental psychologists. He has also been named one of the 25 most productive educational psychologists. In a citation survey of the period 1982–1992, he was designated the most cited reading disability researcher in the world. Stanovich is also a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Awards

Stanovich is the only two-time winner of the Albert J. Harris Award from the

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for influential articles on reading. In 1995, he was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame as the youngest member of that honorary society. In 1996, he was given the Oscar Causey Award from the National Reading Conference for contributions to research and in 1997, he received the

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Award from the

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. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. He was awarded the 2010

for Education from the

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and was selected as a 2010 Grawemeyer Award winner for his 2009 book, ''What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought.'' Stanovich is a Fellow of the

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(Divisions 3 xperimental 7 evelopmental 8 ersonality & Social & 15 ducational, the

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, the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, and is a Charter Member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. He was a member of the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the

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. From 1986 to 2000, he was the associate editor of '' Merrill-Palmer Quarterly'', a leading journal of human development.

Collaborators

Stanovich has had two long-term collaborators in his career, Anne Cunningham and Richard West. Stanovich and West were graduate students at the

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together. These relationships had their roots in the 1970s, and the three of them still work together. Another longstanding colleague is Maggie Toplak, of

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in Toronto.

Publications

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References

External links

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Keith Stanovich's page
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