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Overview

Gilles E. Gignac is affiliated with the University of Western Australia, where their research primarily focuses on psychology. Their body of work spans several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The research topics covered by Gignac include:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Gignac has contributed extensively to academic journals, with frequent publications in venues such as:

  • Intelligence
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Neuropsychology Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Among the recent papers authored by Gignac are:

  • The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data, 2020, Intelligence
  • Defining intelligence: Bridging the gap between human and artificial perspectives, 2024, Intelligence
  • Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety, 2022, Personality and Individual Differences

Gignac collaborates with multiple researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Marcin Zajenkowski
  • Michael Weinborn
  • Carmela Pestell
  • Dana L. Walker
  • Romina Palermo

Best Publications

  • Effect size guidelines for individual differences researchers

    Gilles E. Gignac;Eva T. Szodorai

  • The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Gilles E. Gignac;Klaus Oberauer;Klaus Oberauer

  • NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Gilles E. Gignac

  • The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Gilles E. Gignac;Samuel Vaughan

  • A psychometric evaluation of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test Version 2.0

    Benjamin R. Palmer;Gilles E. Gignac;Ramesh Manocha;Con Stough

  • The higher-order model imposes a proportionality constraint: That is why the bifactor model tends to fit better

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • Bifactor Modeling and the Estimation of Model-Based Reliability in the WAIS-IV.

    Gilles E. Gignac;Marley W. Watkins

  • An examination of the factor structure of the schutte self-report emotional intelligence (SSREI) scale via confirmatory factor analysis

    Gilles E. Gignac;Benjamin R. Palmer;Ramesh Manocha;Con Stough

  • Examining the factor structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory with an Australian general population sample

    Benjamin R. Palmer;Ramesh Manocha;Gilles E. Gignac;Con Stough

  • The Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory: A Measure Designed Specifically for Workplace Applications

    Benjamin R. Palmer;Con Stough;Richard Harmer;Gilles Gignac

  • Higher-order models versus direct hierarchical models: g as superordinate or breadth factor?

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • Multi-factor modeling in individual differences research: Some recommendations and suggestions

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data

    Gilles E. Gignac;Marcin Zajenkowski

  • The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population.

    Michael C. W. English;Gilles E. Gignac;Troy A. W. Visser;Andrew J. O. Whitehouse;Andrew J. O. Whitehouse

  • Raven's is not a pure measure of general intelligence: Implications for g factor theory and the brief measurement of g

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • Examining the structure of the trait meta-mood scale

    Benjamin R. Palmer;Gilles E. Gignac;Timothy C. Bates;Con Stough

  • Brain volume and intelligence: The moderating role of intelligence measurement quality

    Gilles E. Gignac;Timothy C. Bates

  • Self-reported emotional intelligence and life satisfaction: Testing incremental predictive validity hypotheses via structural equation modeling (SEM) in a small sample

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • A confirmatory factor analytic investigation of the TAS-20: corroboration of a five-factor model and suggestions for improvement.

    Gilles E. Gignac;Benjamin R. Palmer;Con Stough

  • The WAIS-III as a Nested Factors Model A Useful Alternative to the More Conventional Oblique and Higher-Order Models

    Gilles E. Gignac

  • Science by social media: Attitudes towards climate change are mediated by perceived social consensus

    Stephan Lewandowsky;John Cook;Nicolas Fay;Gilles E. Gignac

  • On the Inappropriateness of Using Items to Calculate Total Scale Score Reliability via Coefficient Alpha for Multidimensional Scales

    Gilles E. Gignac

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Con Stough
Con Stough Swinburne University of Technology
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Hamid R. Sohrabi
Hamid R. Sohrabi Murdoch University
Timothy C. Bates
Timothy C. Bates University of Edinburgh
Philip A. Vernon
Philip A. Vernon University of Western Ontario
Murray T. Maybery
Murray T. Maybery University of Western Australia
Andrew J. O. Whitehouse
Andrew J. O. Whitehouse Telethon Kids Institute
Martine B. Powell
Martine B. Powell Griffith University

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