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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance ...
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994) is a controversial bestseller that Charles Murray wrote with Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein. The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of IQ scores.
He was an active researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. Herrnstein was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology until his death, and previously chaired the Harvard Department of Psychology for five years. With political scientist Charles Murray, he co-wrote The Bell Curve, a controversial 1994 book on human intelligence.
Linda Susanne Gottfredson (née Howarth; born 1947) is an American psychologist and writer. She is professor emerita of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society.
Charles Murray, Lord Murray (1866–1936), Scottish Conservative politician, lawyer and judge Charles Murray Turpin (1878–1946), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Ed Murray (Tennessee politician) (Charles Edward Murray, 1928–2009), US politician, who was speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives
The term was coined by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their 1994 book The Bell Curve. [13] [14] [15] Flynn stated that, if asked, he would have named the effect after Read D. Tuddenham [16] who "was the first to present convincing evidence of massive gains on mental tests using a nationwide sample" [17] in a 1948 article. [18]
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In 1994, the debate on race and intelligence was reignited by the publication of the book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The book was received positively by the media, with prominent coverage in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Although ...