Colin Cooper (psychologist) explained

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, and latterly London Ontario, Canada. Cooper also devised the multiple-choice IQ tests for the BBC television programme Test the Nation.^[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

• Individual Differences and Personality (4th ed.) (2020)
• Psychological Testing: theory and practice (2019)
• Intelligence and Human Abilities (2015)
• Individual Differences and Personality (3rd ed.) (2010)
• Test the Nation: The IQ Book (2003)
• Individual Differences (2nd ed.) (2002)
• Intelligence and Abilities (2002)
• Individual Differences (1997)

Articles

• 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00018-0 . Cooper, C. . Rorison, B.N. . 2001 . The Apperceptive Personality Test located in personality space . . 30 . 2 . 363–366 .
• 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00004-0 . Saggino, A., Cooper, C. & Kline, P. . 2001 . A confirmatory factor analysis of the Myers-Briggs type indicator . . 30 . 1 . 3–9 .
• 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2001.00035.x . 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 . 11813387 .
• Cooper, C. . 2001 . Differential Psychology Section . The Psychologist . 14 . 1 . 15–16 .
• 10.1007/s12144-001-1025-0 . Cooper, C. . Berwick, S. . 2001 . Factors affecting psychological well-being of three groups of suicide-prone prisoners . Current Psychology . 20 . 2 . 169–182 . 143654068 .
• 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 . 17205954 . 179–84 .
• 10.1097/00003226-200304000-00011 . Cooke C.A., Cooper, C., Dowds, E., Frazer, D.G., Jackson, A.J. . 2003 . Keratoconus, myopia and personality . Cornea . 22 . 3 . 239–242 . 12658090 . 12823236 .
• McRorie, M. . Cooper, C. . 2003 . Neural transmission and general mental ability . . 30 . 4 . 335–338 . 10.1016/s1041-6080(03)00013-x.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staff Profile - Dr Colin Cooper. Queen's University Belfast. 17 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20130603095026/http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/Staff/Profiles/cooper/index.aspx. 3 June 2013. dead.
2. News: Belfast doctor tests the nation's IQ. 17 July 2010. BBC News online. 10 May 2002.
3. Web site: Swain. Harriet. Q: when can a game show be an academic study?. Times Higher Education. 17 July 2010. 10 May 2002.