Ian J. Deary FRSE FRCPE is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Ian Deary is currently engaged in a 10-year study into the effects of ageing on mental ability using the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey funded by Age UK, entitled The Disconnected Mind.[1] He is Director of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and has published over 400 refereed journal articles, four authored books and three edited books. His research has contributed to the new field of cognitive epidemiology. His h-index in ISI's Web of Science is 54; he has over 12,000 citations to his work.
Among his findings are that possession of the e4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (ApoE-ε4) is associated with intelligence at age 79 but not age 11, in the same people;[2] That reaction time explains the association of intelligence with death;[3] and that bright children become more socially enlightened adults.[4]
He has been president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (1999–2001), and is on the editorial board of the journal Intelligence. He is an elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1996); the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2003); the British Academy; the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007); the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2007), and the Association for Psychological Science (2009).
Professor Deary was a pupil (1966–71) of the former Hamilton Academy.
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