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Phillip L. Ackerman is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Demography, and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.

Key topics addressed in their work include Education, Achievement, and Giftedness; Cognitive Abilities and Testing; Retirement, Disability, and Employment; Aging and Gerontology Research; Labor market dynamics and wage inequality; Cognitive Science and Mapping; and Educational and Psychological Assessments.

Phillip L. Ackerman has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • American Psychologist
  • Intelligence
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Educational Psychology Review

Recent papers authored by Ackerman include:

  • Work in the 21st century: New directions for aging and adult development (2020, American Psychologist)
  • A primer on assessing intelligence in laboratory studies (2020, Intelligence)
  • Intelligence... moving beyond the lowest common denominator (2022, American Psychologist)
  • Intelligence Process vs. Content and Academic Performance: A Trip through a House of Mirrors (2022, Journal of Intelligence)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Corey E. Tatel, Ruth Kanfer, Zachary R. Tidler, Sarah McColm, and Victoria Graham.

Best Publications

  • Motivation and cognitive abilities: an integrative/aptitude-treatment interaction approach to skill acquisition

    Ruth Kanfer;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Intelligence, personality, and interests: Evidence for overlapping traits.

    Phillip L. Ackerman;Eric D. Heggestad

  • Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation

    Ruth Kanfer;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • A Longitudinal Field Investigation of Gender Differences in Individual Technology Adoption Decision-Making Processes.

    Viswanath Venkatesh;Michael G. Morris;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Determinants of individual differences during skill acquisition: Cognitive abilities and information processing.

    Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Working memory and intelligence: the same or different constructs?

    Phillip L. Ackerman;Margaret E. Beier;Mary O. Boyle

  • A theory of adult intellectual development: Process, personality, interests, and knowledge

    Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Individual differences in skill learning: An integration of psychometric and information processing perspectives.

    Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Gender and age differences in employee decisions about new technology: an extension to the theory of planned behavior

    M.G. Morris;V. Venkatesh;P.L. Ackerman

  • Personality-intelligence relations: Assessment of typical intellectual engagement.

    Maynard Goff;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Predicting individual differences in complex skill acquisition: dynamics of ability determinants.

    Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network of cognitive and perceptual speed abilities.

    Phillip L. Ackerman;Margaret E. Beier;Mary D. Boyle

  • Cognitive and noncognitive determinants and consequences of complex skill acquisition.

    Phillip L. Ackerman;Ruth Kanfer;Maynard Goff

  • Goal setting, conditions of practice, and task performance: A resource allocation perspective.

    Ruth Kanfer;Phillip L. Ackerman;Todd C. Murtha;Brad Dugdale

  • Age, ability, and the role of prior knowledge on the acquisition of new domain knowledge : Promising results in a real-world learning environment

    Margaret E. Beier;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Cognitive, perceptual-speed, and psychomotor determinants of individual differences during skill acquisition.

    Phillip L. Ackerman;Anna T. Cianciolo

  • Investment and intellect: A review and meta-analysis

    Sophie von Stumm;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Individual Differences in Work Motivation: Further Explorations of a Trait Framework

    Ruth Kanfer;Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Domain-Specific Knowledge as the "Dark Matter" of Adult Intelligence Gf/Gc, Personality and Interest Correlates

    Phillip L. Ackerman

  • Assessing individual differences in knowledge: Knowledge, intelligence, and related traits.

    Eric L. Rolfhus;Phillip L. Ackerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Kanfer
Ruth Kanfer Georgia Institute of Technology
Margaret E. Beier
Margaret E. Beier Rice University
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic University College London
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Dimitri van der Linden
Dimitri van der Linden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Sabine Sonnentag
Sabine Sonnentag University of Mannheim
David Z. Hambrick
David Z. Hambrick Michigan State University
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland

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