Adrian Frank Furnham was born on 3 February 1953 and is a South African-born British BPS chartered occupational psychologist and chartered health psychologist.
22 Facts About Adrian Furnham
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Adrian Furnham is currently an adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a professor at University College London.
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Adrian Furnham has explored topics within: applied, economic, health, occupational, social, and differential psychology.
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Adrian Furnham is a fellow of the British Psychological Society; he was granted the British Psychological Society of Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2011.
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Adrian Furnham was born on 3 February 1953 to British parents in Port Shepstone, Union of South Africa.
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Adrian Furnham's father was a newspaper printer and publisher, and his mother was a nurse.
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Adrian Furnham completed a Master of Arts in 1974, composing his thesis on cross-cultural conformity and field dependence.
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Adrian Furnham is currently a professor of psychology at University College London.
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Adrian Furnham is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as he was renowned to be the second most productive psychologist in 1995.
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Adrian Furnham is currently the elected president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, as well as the founder and director of Applied Behavioral Research Associates ; which is a consultancy in psychology.
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Adrian Furnham consulted for many international companies to assist them with top team development, create systems for performance management, psychometric testing, and developing leadership skills.
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Adrian Furnham has written over 92 books, and many of them have been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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Alongside his books, Adrian Furnham has written newspaper pieces for Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Times Higher Education Supplement, Sunday Times, and contributed to various magazines, including: The Spectator, Personnel Management, New Scientist, Across the Board, and Spotlight, in both Europe and North America.
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Adrian Furnham has been a columnist in multiple management magazines such as Mastering Management and Human Resources.
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Adrian Furnham is a regular contributor to national and international radio and television channels such as BBC, CNN, and ITV.
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Adrian Furnham has documented different scales that measure the same thing and compared their quantities.
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Adrian Furnham did this through reviewing old and new personality tests.
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Adrian Furnham adapted already existing ideas to make specific tests like the Economic Locus of Control measure in 1986, and the Organisational Attributional Style Questionnaire in 1992.
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Adrian Furnham developed the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, which is a self-report inventory that measures the sampling domain of trait emotional intelligence, along with his PhD student Dino Petrides in 2006.
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Adrian Furnham developed the High Flyer Trait Inventory, with his colleague Ian Macrae in 2014.
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Adrian Furnham had given his opinion on this topic to the International Society for the Study of Individual differences.
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Adrian Furnham was introduced to the dark side personality by Robert Hogan.