1. Robert J Sternberg was born on December 8,1949 and is an American psychologist and psychometrician.
26 Facts About Robert Sternberg
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Robert Sternberg is a Professor of Human Development at Cornell University.
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Robert Sternberg holds thirteen honorary doctorates from two North American, one South American, one Asian, and nine European universities, and additionally holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany.
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Robert Sternberg is a Distinguished Associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge.
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Robert Sternberg was born on December 8,1949, to a Jewish family, in New Jersey.
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Robert Sternberg later constructed the Test of Mental Ability, his first intelligence test.
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Robert Sternberg did so poorly in his introductory psychology class that his professor insisted that he pursue another major.
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Robert Sternberg continued his academic career at Stanford University, where he earned his PhD, in 1975.
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Robert Sternberg returned to Yale as an assistant professor of Psychology in 1975, and would work at Yale for three decades, eventually becoming the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, as well as the founder and director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise.
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Robert Sternberg left Yale in 2005 to assume the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, where he quickly began his job search for a promotion to a Provost position.
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In early 2013, Robert Sternberg was named the new president of the University of Wyoming.
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Robert Sternberg took office in July 2013 as the University of Wyoming's 24th president.
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On November 14,2013, only 137 days after Sternberg had taken the helm of UW, it was announced at a press conference following a trustees meeting in William Robertson Coe Library that Sternberg had tendered his resignation to the board.
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Robert Sternberg's resignation was neither asked for, nor forced by the Board of Trustees.
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Robert Sternberg holds thirteen honorary doctorates, including some from universities outside the United States.
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Robert Sternberg began serving as editor of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science in 2015.
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Robert Sternberg is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other organizations.
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Robert Sternberg is past-president of the American Psychological Association and the Eastern Psychological Association, and currently is President of the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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Robert Sternberg has proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence and a triangular theory of love.
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Robert Sternberg is the creator of the investment theory of creativity, which states that creative people buy low and sell high in the world of ideas, and a propulsion theory of creative contributions, which states that creativity is a form of leadership.
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Robert Sternberg spearheaded an experimental admissions process at Tufts to quantify and test the creativity, practical skills, and wisdom-based skills of an applicant.
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Robert Sternberg used similar techniques when he was provost at Oklahoma State.
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Robert Sternberg believes that this focus on specific types of measurable mental abilities is too narrow.
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Robert Sternberg believes that studying intelligence in this way leads to an understanding of only one part of intelligence and that this part is only seen in people who are "school smart" or "book smart".
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Robert Sternberg calls the application of ideas from one problem to a new type of problem relative novelty.
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Robert Sternberg developed a testing instrument to identify people who are gifted in ways that other tests don't identify.