The Stability of Individual Differences in Mental Ability from Childhood to Old Age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey

By Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, H. Lemmon, John R. Crawford, John M. Starr. 2000

518 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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In Behavioral Neuroscience

1. Ian J. Deary

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Ian J. Deary
2. Wendy Johnson
3. M. Whiteman
4. Lawrence J. Whalley
5. John M. Starr
6. L. M. Houlihan
7. V. Skirbekk
8. A. Pattie

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Ian J. Deary
2. M. Whiteman
3. Lawrence J. Whalley
4. George Davey Smith
5. I. Schoon
6. Stephen Burgess
7. J. Bowden
8. S. Thompson

Citations in the corpus

• Age and Individual Productivity: A Literature Survey (2003, background): “Furthermore, individuals with high ability levels are subject to the same changes in cognitive functioning as those with low ability levels (Deary et al. 2000).”
• Intergenerational social mobility and mid-life status attainment: influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors, and education (2005, methodology): “In the present study the use of the Moray House Test, which was wellvalidated against the Stanford-Binet test (SCRE, 1933; Deary et al., 2000), and the use of a latent trait for adult social status, were attempts to conduct improved analyses.”
• Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among older people (2009, background): “The decline with age in fluid abilities has been shown across countries, for both men and women, and for individuals with different levels of ability (Deary et al. 2000; Park, Nisbett and Hedden 1999; Maitland et al. 2000).”
• Social Support and Successful Aging: Investigating the Relationships Between Lifetime Cognitive Change and Life Satisfaction (2007, background): “Early life cognitive ability accounts for about 50% of the variance in later life ability ( Deary, Whalley, Lemmon, Crawford, & Starr, 2000; Deary, Whiteman, Starr, Whalley, & Fox, 2004): Those who have high levels of mental ability in childhood are likely to have higher levels of mental ability in”
• Genetic foundations of human intelligence (2009, background): “It is highly stable across many decades (Deary et al. 2000).”
• The impact of childhood intelligence on later life: following up the Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947. (2004, methodology): “Our first follow-up study of the SMS1932 examined the stability of Moray House Test scores in the ABC1921 from age 11 to age about 77 in 101 relatively healthy participants in the Aberdeen area (Deary et al., 2000).”