Malcolm Alexander Jeeves (born 16 November 1926) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the

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, and was formerly President of the

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. He established the Department of Psychology at St Andrews and his research interests centre on

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

and

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.Basic bio-info fro
St Edmund's College

Career

* Educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire, and

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where he won an exhibition in Natural Sciences in 1945.These details fro
CCSA Biography
* 1945-1948 he served as an infantry officer in Germany with the

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and the

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. * Undergraduate study and postgraduate research at Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD, * 1955 Advanced Fellowship at

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, * 1956 appointed lecturer in psychology at the

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* 1959 Foundation Professor of Psychology at

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. * 1969 Foundation Professor of Psychology at

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* 1980-1984 Vice-Principal * 1992

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for his services to science and to psychology in Britain. * 1996-1999 President of the

* 1998 Elected a Founder Fellow of the

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He has received honorary degrees from

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Stirling University The University of Stirling (, gd, Oilthigh Shruighlea (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built w ...

, and

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. Amongst his medals and prizes are the

Kenneth Craik Kenneth James William Craik (; 1914 – 1945) was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 29 March 1914, the son of James Craik, a solicitor. The family lived at 13 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's Second N ...

Prize in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, the Abbie Medal in Anatomy at

in Australia, and the Cairns Medal of the Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons of South Australia. He is a Fellow of the

of Britain, of the

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, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His main scientific research interests are in neuropsychology; he was Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal ''

Neuropsychologia ''Neuropsychologia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that focuses on cognitive neuroscience. It was established in 1963, and is published by Elsevier (formerly Pergamon Press Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded ...

'' in the 1990s.

Publications

Books

Psychology

* Thinking in Structures (with Z. P. Dienes) - translated into French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, Japanese * Effects of Structural Relations upon Transfer (with Z. P. Dienes) - translated into French, German, Italian * Experimental Psychology: an Introduction for Biologists - translated into French * Analysis of Structural Learning (with G. B. Greer) * Callosal Agenesis (with M. Lassonde)

Science and Christian belief

* The Scientific Enterprise and Christian Faith (1968) * Psychology and Christianity: The View Both Ways (1976) * Free to be Different (with R. J. Berry and D. Atkinson) (1984) * Psychology through the Eyes of Faith (with D. Myers) (1987) * Human Nature at the Millennium (1997) * Science, Life and Christian Belief (with R. J. Berry) (1998) * Psychology through the Eyes of Faith: revised and updated (with D. Myers) (2002) * From Cells to Souls-and Beyond (2003) * Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature (with Warren S. Brown) (2009) *
Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
' (2013),

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References

External links

His CiS Lectures
at

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2000
The Jeeves Lectures
named in his honour at the University of St Andrews
'Psychologising and Neurologoising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future'
the 2008 Boyle Lecture given by Malcolm Jeeves, St Mary-le-Bow church, 23 January 2008 (available for download as text, audio or video files). {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeeves, Malcolm 1926 births 20th-century British Army personnel Living people Academics of the University of St Andrews Academics of the University of Leeds Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Harvard Fellows Members of the International Society for Science and Religion People educated at Stamford School People from Stamford, Lincolnshire Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers Sherwood Foresters officers