Wendy Johnson

Wendy Johnson
Born	(1955-10-02) October 2, 1955
Nationality	American
Education	Occidental College San Francisco State University University of Minnesota
Known for	Research on human intelligence and personality
Awards	American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Differential psychology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Antecedents of Individual Differences in Academic Achievement (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Matthew McGue, Thomas Bouchard

Wendy Johnson (born October 2, 1955) is an American differential psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She also holds the Chair in Differential Development in the University of Edinburgh's Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. She is known for her research on human intelligence and personality.

Johnson grew up in Tacoma, Washington, United States. She graduated from Occidental College in California with a mathematics degree in 1977. In 1991, she founded Pacific Actuarial Consultants, of which she served as president until 2001. She began studying psychology at San Francisco State University in 1995, from which she received her master's degree in 1999. In 2005, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Minnesota.

In 2004, the International Society for Intelligence Research honored Johnson with its John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology. In 2011, she received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, in recognition of her work on the individual differences of intelligence and personality.

External links

• Wendy Johnson publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Interview with the APS Observer