Phillip Ackerman

	Phillip Ackerman	(404) 894-5611
	Cognitive, Engineering, and Industrial/Organizational
	Ph.D. (1984) Quantitative/Measurement Psychology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Professor of Psychology

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My research spans several related research areas of differential, educational, cognitive, applied experimental, and industrial and organizational psychology. Theory and empirical research I have conducted relates to the nature of adult learning, skill acquisition, student and employee selection, training, abilities, personality, and motivation. In collaboration with Professor Kanfer and our students, recent empirical research and theoretical contributions address the ability, motivation, personality, interest, and self-concept determinants of skilled performance and training success, and on the development and expression of intellectual competence in adulthood. Current research projects focus on age differences and gender differences in the breadth and depth of adult knowledge, and on the taxonomic nature of perceptual speed abilities and their role in the development of skilled performance.

 

Affiliations
American Educational Research Association
American Psychological Association

• Fellow, Division 1 -- General Psychology
• Fellow, Division 3 -- Experimental Psychology
• Fellow, Division 5 -- Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
• Member, Division 15 -- Educational Psychology
• Fellow, Division 20 -- Adult Development and Aging
• Fellow, Division 21 -- Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology

American Psychological Society (Charter Fellow)
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (Fellow)
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
National Council on Measurement in Education
Psychonomic Society
Sigma Xi

 

Selected Publications

• Ackerman, P. L., & Kanfer, R. (1993). Integrating laboratory and field study for improving selection: Development of a battery for predicting air traffic controller success. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 413-432.
• Ackerman, P. L. (1994). Intelligence, attention, and learning: Maximal and typical performance. Chapter in D. K. Detterman (Ed.) Current Topics in Human Intelligence; Volume 4: Theories of Intelligence, pp. 1-27. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
• Ackerman, P. L. (1996). A theory of adult intellectual development: process, personality, interests, and knowledge. Intelligence, 22, 229-259.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Heggestad, E. D. (1997). Intelligence, personality, and interests: Evidence for overlapping traits. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 219-245.
• Ackerman, P. L. (1997). Personality, self-concept, interests, and intelligence: Which construct doesn't fit? Journal of Personality, 65(2), 171-204.
• Ackerman, P. L., Kyllonen, P. C., & Roberts R. D. (Editors). (1999). Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait, and Content Determinants. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Cianciolo, A. T. (1999). Psychomotor abilities via touchpanel testing: Measurement innovations, construct, and criterion validity. Human Performance, 12, 231-273.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Rolfhus, E. L. (1999). The locus of adult intelligence: Knowledge, abilities, and non-ability traits. Psychology and Aging, 14, 314-330.
• Rolfhus, E. L., & Ackerman, P. L. (1999). Assessing individual differences in knowledge: Knowledge structures and traits. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 511-526.
• Ackerman, P. L. (2000). Domain-specific knowledge as the "dark matter" of adult intelligence: gf/gc, personality and interest correlates. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 55B (2), P69-P84.
• Kanfer, R., & Ackerman, P. L. (2000) Individual differences in work motivation: Further explorations of a trait framework. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49 (3), 469-481.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Cianciolo, A. T. (2000). Cognitive, perceptual speed, and psychomotor determinants of individual differences during skill acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 259-290.
• Kanfer, R., & Ackerman, P. L. (2000) Individual differences in work motivation: Further explorations of a trait framework. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49 (3), 469-481.
• Ackerman, P. L., Beier, M. E., & Bowen, K. R. (2000). Explorations of crystallized intelligence: Completion tests, cloze tests and knowledge. Learning and Individual Differences: A Multidisciplinary Journal in Education, 12, 105-121.
• Ackerman, P. L., Bowen, K. R., Beier, M. B., & Kanfer, R. (2001). Determinants of individual differences and gender differences in knowledge. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 797-825.
• Beier, M. E., & Ackerman, P. L. (2001). Current events knowledge in adults: An investigation of age, intelligence and non-ability determinants. Psychology and Aging, 16, 615-628.
• Ackerman, P. L. (2002). Gender differences in intelligence and knowledge: How should we look at achievement score differences? Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology, 8(1), 21-29.
• Ackerman, P. L., Beier, M. B., & Bowen, K. R. (2002). What we really know about our abilities and our knowledge. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 587-605.
• Ackerman, P. L., Beier, M. E., & Boyle, M. O. (2002). Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network of cognitive and perceptual speed abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 567-589.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Cianciolo, A. T. (2002). Ability and task constraint determinants of complex task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8(3), 194-208.
• Ackerman, P. L. (2003). Aptitude complexes and trait complexes. Educational Psychologist, 38, 85-93.
• Ackerman, P. L. (2003). Cognitive ability and non-ability trait determinants of expertise. Educational Researcher, 32(8), 15-20.
• Ackerman, P. L., & Beier, M. E. (2003). Intelligence, personality, and interests in the career choice process. Journal of Career Assessment, 11(2), 205-218.
• Beier, M. E., & Ackerman, P. L. (2003). Determinants of health knowledge: An investigation of age, gender, abilities, personality, and interests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84 (2), 439-448.

Contact Information

Dr. Phillip Ackerman School of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology 654 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Telephone: (404) 894-5611 Fax: (404) 894-6904 E-mail: Office Location: 227 J.S. Coon Bldg. Lab Information: Kanfer-Ackerman Laboratory