Julian C. Stanley Jr.

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Julian C. Stanley Jr. (July 9, 1918 – August 12, 2005) was an American psychologist best known for his work on psychometrics.

Born in Macon, Georgia, he graduated from West Georgia Junior College (1936) and Georgia Teachers College (1937), now Georgia Southern University. During World War II (1942–1945), he served in the chemical warfare service. He later took a job at Vanderbilt University. His collaboration with Donald T. Campbell on "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research" (Campbell & Stanley, 1963, 1966) became his most widely cited publication. In 1965, he became a fellow at the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and edited Improving Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis (1966).

Stanley then went to Johns Hopkins University, where with support from the newly formed Spencer Foundation, he founded the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which defended the findings on race and intelligence in The Bell Curve. ^[1]

The Association for Psychological Science named him as a James McKeen Cattell Fellow in recognition of his sustained and rigorous contributions applied psychological research.