My research spans several related research areas of differential, educational, cognitive, applied experimental, and industrial and organizational psychology. Theory and empirical research I have conducted relates to the nature of adult learning, skill acquisition, student and employee selection, training, abilities, personality, and motivation. In collaboration with Professor Kanfer and our students, recent empirical research and theoretical contributions address the ability, motivation, personality, interest, and self-concept determinants of skilled performance and training success, and on the development and expression of intellectual competence in adulthood. Current research projects focus on age differences and gender differences in the breadth and depth of adult knowledge, and on the taxonomic nature of perceptual speed abilities and their role in the development of skilled performance.
Affiliations
American Educational Research Association (Fellow)
American Psychological Association
Fellow, Division 1 -- General
Psychology
Fellow, Division 3 -- Experimental Psychology
Fellow, Division 5 -- Division of Evaluation
, Measurement, and Statistics
Member, Division 15 -- Educational Psychology
Fellow, Division 20 -- Adult Development and Aging
Fellow, Division 21 -- Applied Experimental and
Engineering Psychology
Association for Psychological Science (formerly American Psychological Society) (Charter Fellow)
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (Fellow)
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
Division of Psychological Assessment and Evaluation
International Society for the Study of Individual
Differences (ISSID)
National Council on Measurement in Education
Psychonomic Society (Fellow)
Selected Publications
Ackerman, P. L. (in press). Intelligence and expertise. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.). Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. 2nd Edition, pp. 1159-1176. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Revision of Ackerman (2011)]
Ackerman, P. L. (in press). A long ‘intellectual’ journey. In D. Dai & R. J. Sternberg (Eds). Scientific inquiry into human potential: Historical and contemporary perspective across disciplines.
Ackerman, P. L., & Kanfer, R. (2020). Work in the 21st century: New directions for aging and adult development. American Psychologist, 75(4), 486-498.
Ackerman, P. L., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2020). A primer on assessing intelligence in laboratory studies. Intelligence, 80, 101440.
Calderwood, C., & Ackerman, P. L. (2019). Modeling intraindividual variation in unsafe driving in a naturalistic commuting environment. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(4), 423-437.
Ackerman, P. L. (2018). PPIK Framework for Adult Intellectual Development. In D. P. Flanagan & E. M. McDonough (Eds.) Contemporary Intellectual Assessment: Theories, Tests, and Issues (4th Edition), 225-241. New York: Guilford Press.
Ackerman, P. L. (2018). Intelligence as potentiality and actuality. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The Nature of Human Intelligence, 1-14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ackerman, P. L. (2018). The search for personality-intelligence relations: methodological and conceptual issues. Journal of Intelligence, 6(2), 1-12.
Ackerman, P. L. (2017). Adult intelligence: The construct and the criterion problem. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(6), 987-998.
Jipp, M., & Ackerman, P. L. (2016). The impact of higher levels of automation on performance and situation awareness: A function of information-processing ability and working-memory capacity. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 10 (2), 138-166.
Ackerman, P. L., & Ellingsen, V. J. (2016) Speed and accuracy indicators of test performance under different instructional conditions: intelligence correlates. Intelligence, 56, 1-9.
Calderwood, C. C., & Ackerman, P. L. (2016). The relative salience of daily and enduring influences on off-job reactions to work stresses. Stress and Health, 32, 587-596.
Ackerman, P. L. (2014). Nonsense, common sense, and science of expert performance: Talent and individual differences. Intelligence, 45, 6-17.
Ackerman, P. L. (2014). Facts are stubborn things. Intelligence, 45, 104-106.
Ackerman, P. L., & Ellingsen, V. J. (2014). Vocabulary overclaiming — a complete approach: Ability, personality, self-concept correlates, and gender differences. Intelligence, 46, 216-227.
Ackerman, P. L. (2014). Adolescent and adult intellectual development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 246-251.
Calderwood, C. C., Ackerman, P. L., & Conklin, E. M. (2014). What else do students “do” while studying? An investigation of multitasking. Computers and Education, 75, 19-29.
Ackerman, P. L., Kanfer, R., & Beier, M. E. (2013). Trait complex, cognitive ability, and domain knowledge predictors of baccalaureate success, STEM persistence, and gender differences. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105, 911-927.
Ackerman, P. L., Kanfer, R., & Calderwood, C. (2013). High school Advanced Placement and student performance in college: STEM majors, non-STEM majors, and gender differences. Teachers College Record, 115 (10), 1-43.
Kanfer, R., Beier, M. E., & Ackerman, P. L. (2013). Goals and motivation related to work in later adulthood: An organizing framework. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22, 253-264
von Stumm, S., & Ackerman, P. L. (2013). Investment and intelligence: A review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 841-869.
Toker, Y., & Ackerman, P. L. (2012). Utilizing occupational complexity levels in vocational interest assessments: Assessing interests for STEM areas. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80, 524-544.
Ackerman, P. L., Shapiro, S., & Beier, M. E., (2011). Subjective estimates of job performance after job preview: Determinants of anticipated learning curves. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 78, 31-48.
Ackerman, P. L., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2011). Trait complexes and academic achievement: Old and new ways of examining personality in educational contexts. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 81, 27-40.
Calderwood, C., & Ackerman, P. L. (2011). The relative impact of trait and temporal determinants of subjective fatigue. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 441-445.
Ackerman, P. L. (Ed.) (2011). Cognitive fatigue: Multidisciplinary perspectives on current research and future applications. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Contact Information
Office Location: 227 Psychology Building
Phone Number: 404/894-5611
FAX: 404/894-6904
E-mail: plackerman@gatech.edu