Dr. Nathan Kuncel

Bio:

Nathan Kuncel is the Marvin D. Dunnette Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota where he also earned his doctorate in Psychology. Nathan’s research generally focuses how individual characteristics (skills, personality, interests) influence subsequent work, academic, and life success as well as efforts to model and measure success. He also studies how people use information to make decisions and how this impacts admissions and hiring decisions. Nathan’s work has appeared in ScienceHarvard Business ReviewPsychological BulletinReview of Educational ResearchThe Wall Street JournalPsychological SciencePerspectives on Psychological Science, among others. Nathan is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He received the Anne Anastasi Award from the American Psychological Association, the Early Career Research Award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the Jeanneret Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, was made McKnight Presidential Fellow by the University of Minnesota, and delivered the Esther Rosen Lecture for the American Psychological Foundation. Nathan is a member of the joint committee revising the Standards for Educational and Psychological Measurement.

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