Colin Cooper (academic)

Colin Cooper is a British psychologist and was a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast ^[1] until 2012, when he took early retirement and moved to Picton, Ontario, Canada. Cooper also devised the multiple-choice IQ tests for the BBC television programme Test the Nation.^[1][2] Among the questions, Cooper said that he had managed to "sneak in a few things that interested me", including questions "exploring the link between intelligence and genetics, height and the number of accidents they have had."^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• Intelligence and Abilities (1999)
• Individual Differences (2002)
• Test the Nation: The IQ Book (2003)
• Individual Differences & Personality (2010)
• Intelligence and Human Abilities (2015)

Articles

• Cooper, C. & Rorison, B.N. (2001). "The Apperceptive Personality Test located in personality space". Personality & Individual Differences 30 (2): 363–366. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00018-0.
• Saggino, A., Cooper, C. & Kline, P. (2001). "A confirmatory factor analysis of the Myers-Briggs type indicator". Personality & Individual Differences 30 (1): 3–9. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00004-0.
• Al Quran F., Clifford, T., Cooper, C., Lamey, P-J. (2001). "Influence of psychological factors on the acceptance of complete dentures". Gerodontology 18 (1): 35–40. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2358.2001.00035.x. PMID 11813387.
• Cooper, C. (2001). "Differential Psychology Section". The Psychologist 14 (1): 15–16.
• Cooper, C. & Berwick, S. (2001). "Factors affecting psychological well-being of three groups of suicide-prone prisoners". Current Psychology 20 (2): 169–182. doi:10.1007/s12144-001-1025-0.
• Al-Omiri, M.K., Clifford, T.J., Lamey, P-J., Cooper, C. (2002). "Relation between psychology and satisfaction with dental appearance in tooth wear patients". Eur J Prosthodont Restor Dent. 14 (4): 179–84. PMID 17205954.
• Cooke C.A., Cooper, C., Dowds, E., Frazer, D.G., Jackson, A.J. (2003). "Keratoconus, myopia and personality". Cornea 22 (3): 239–242. doi:10.1097/00003226-200304000-00011. PMID 12658090.
• McRorie, M. & Cooper, C. (2003). "Neural transmission and general mental ability". Learning and Individual Differences 30 (4): 335–338. doi:10.1016/s1041-6080(03)00013-x.

References

1. "Staff Profile - Dr Colin Cooper". Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
2. "Belfast doctor tests the nation's IQ". BBC News online. 10 May 2002. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
3. Swain, Harriet (10 May 2002). "Q: when can a game show be an academic study?". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 17 July 2010.