Stuart J. Ritchie

Stuart James Ritchie is a Scottish psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He works at the artificial intelligence research company Anthropic.^[1]

Stuart Ritchie
Ritchie in 2024
Born	Stuart James Ritchie
Nationality	Scottish
Education	University of Edinburgh
Known for	Research on human intelligence
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	King's College London Anthropic
Thesis	Studies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014)
Doctoral advisors	Sergio Della Sala Robert McIntosh

Career

Ritchie has served as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London since the summer of 2018. He was previously active in researching intelligence as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh.^[2][3][4] In 2021, his book Science Fictions was nominated for the £25,000 Royal Society Prize for Science Books but lost to Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.^[5] Ritchie writes a newsletter titled Science Fictions for the newspaper i (on Substack prior to 2023) which, like his book of the same name, focuses on scientific controversies and bias and fraud in scientific research.^[6]

Since 2023, he has co-hosted a weekly podcast called The Studies Show with science writer Tom Chivers, where they discuss the studies behind controversial scientific issues.^[7]

Publications

• Intelligence: All That Matters (2016, part of Teach Yourself's All That Matters series^[8])
• Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (2020)^[9]