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.  CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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.  CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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.  CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. 1 2 "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.