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Lee Willerman

Psychology

#1088

World Rank

#1348

Historical Rank

#658

USA Rank

Personality Psychology

#53

World Rank

#57

Historical Rank

#23

USA Rank

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Lee Willerman's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Psychology University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Lee Willerman was an American psychologist known for his work on behavioral genetics using twin studies. Biography Willerman was born and grew up in Chicago. Willerman received BA and MA degrees from Roosevelt University in 1961 and 1964 respectively, and his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1967. After a three-year stint at the National Institutes of Health, Willerman completed a post-doctoral year at the University of Michigan in the Department of Human Genetics. In 1971 he took a position at the University of Texas at Austin, where he remained until his death.

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Lee Willerman's Published Works

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"In Vivo" Brain Size and Intelligence. (1991) (278)
Intellectual resemblance among adoptive and biological relatives: The texas Adoption Project (1979) (170)
Activity level and hyperactivity in twins. (1973) (169)
The psychology of individual and group differences (1979) (149)
A test of the maternal stress theory of human male homosexuality (1991) (116)
Effects of families on intellectual development. (1979) (114)
Human behavior genetics. (1988) (107)
Modeling IQ change: evidence from the Texas Adoption Project. (1989) (106)
Personality resemblances in adoptive families when the children are late-adolescent or adult. (1985) (104)
The inheritance of temperaments. (1973) (101)
On sense and senses: Intelligence and auditory information processing (1987) (86)
Personality Resemblance in Adoptive Families: A 10-Year Follow-up (1987) (83)
Psychological masculinity and femininity and typical and maximal dominance expression in women. (1979) (77)
INFANT DEVELOPMENT, PRESCHOOL IQ, AND SOCIAL CLASS (1970) (69)
Impact of pediatric traumatic brain injury on components of verbal memory. (1998) (63)
Hemisphere size asymmetry predicts relative verbal and nonverbal intelligence differently in the sexes: An MRI study of structure—Function relations (1992) (63)
Intelligence and birth weight in identical twins. (1967) (57)
A Comparison of the Predictive Validity of Typical and Maximal Personality Measures. (1976) (50)
Aptitude-related differences in auditory recognition masking☆ (1983) (47)
An adoption and a cross-fostering study of the minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) psychopathic deviate scale (1992) (42)
Intelligence, heredity, and environment: Heredity, environment, and IQ in the Texas Adoption Project (1996) (42)
Personality resemblances between unwed mothers and their adopted-away offspring. (1982) (41)
Personality correlates of WAIS performance. (1976) (40)
Heredity, environment, and personality change: evidence from the Texas Adoption Project. (1990) (39)
Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings (1970) (30)
Excessive yielding to normal biases is not a distinctive sign of schizophrenia. (1980) (28)
Personality correlates of occupational status according to Holland types (1983) (23)
Infant Performance and Intellectual Precocity. (1974) (22)
Callosal dysfunction in schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder. (1987) (20)
Activity level in children and their parents. (1973) (20)
Sex differences in WAIS item performance. (1989) (19)
Intellectual development of children from interracial matings: Performance in infancy and at 4 years (1974) (17)
Intellectually Precocious Preschool Children: Early Development and Later Intellectual Accomplishments. (1977) (17)
Aptitude-related differences in auditory information processing: effects of selective attention and tone duration (1985) (16)
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia and nailfold plexus visibility (1991) (15)
Sex differneces in wasis item performance (1977) (15)
Biosocial influences on human development. (1972) (15)
Differential Inheritance of Mental Abilities in the Texas Adoption Project. (1994) (13)
Intelligence of retinoblastoma patients and their siblings. (1972) (13)
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION (1973) (12)
A cotwin control study and a twin study of reflection-impulsivity in children. (1975) (10)
Personality differences and biological variations: A study of twins (1974) (10)
A note on Thomson's sampling theory for correlations among mental tests (1987) (10)
Spouse similarities in personality traits for intra- and interethnic marriages in Israel (1988) (10)
Intellectual resemblance among adoptive adoptive and biological relatives: the Texas adoption project. (1979) (9)
Commentary on Rushton's Mongoloid-Caucasoid differences in brain size (1991) (9)
A test of some predictions from the personality assessment system. (1976) (8)
Brain Structure and Cognitive Function (1994) (7)
Retention of Learned Temperature Changes during Problem Solving (1976) (5)
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia and plexus visibility: A replication with medicated and unmedicated patients (1993) (4)
Readings about individual and group differences (1979) (3)
Plexus visibility in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders (1995) (3)
Nature-nurture and intelligence: the twin and adoption studies agree. (1974) (3)
Parental Problem-Solving Speed as a Correlate of Intelligence in Parents and Their Adopted and Natural Children. (1979) (2)
Examiner effects in adoption studies of intelligence (1980) (2)
Blood group and behavioral differences among dizygotic twins: a failure to replicate. (1974) (2)
Magnetic resonance image contrast and intelligence (1990) (2)
Infant deveolpment, preschool IQ, and social class. (1970) (1)
Medical aspects of adoption and foster care. Clinics in developmental medicine no. 74. (1980) (1)
Rejoinder to Eysenck. (1973) (0)
Diversity in Individual Differences. (1987) (0)
Crime and Delinquency. (1972) (0)
Heredity and intelligence. Are intelligence differences hereditarily transmitted? Commentaries. Authors' response (1990) (0)
Individual and environment: Monozygotic twins reared apart. (1980) (0)
Reply to Eysenck's Letter. (1973) (0)
IQ: Methodological and Other Issues (1972) (0)
Comments on "Brain Size and Cerebral Glucose Metabolic Rate in Nonspecific Mental Retardation and Down Syndrome.". (1995) (0)
Annual review of psychology, Vol. 30, 1979. (1979) (0)
Psendoscience and mental ability: The origins and fallacies of the IQ controversy. (1979) (0)
Physical development of interracial children in the first year. (1979) (0)
Overinterpreting model fitting effects (1991) (0)
Letter to the editor. (1972) (0)
Hereditary genius: An inquiry into its laws and consequences. (1979) (0)
Hans Eysenck: The Man and his Work. (1982) (0)
Generalizability of heritability estimates for intelligence from the Texas adoption project. (1981) (0)
Intelligence: An introduction. (1980) (0)

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