Colin Cooper is a British

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and was a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at

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until 2012, when he took early retirement and moved to Picton, and latterly London Ontario,

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. Cooper also devised the multiple-choice IQ tests for the

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television programme ''

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.'' Among the questions, Cooper said that he had managed to "sneak in a few things that interested me", including questions "exploring the link between intelligence and genetics, height and the number of accidents they have had."

Bibliography

Books

*''Individual Differences and Personality (4th ed.)'' (2020) *''Psychological Testing: theory and practice'' (2019) *''Intelligence and Human Abilities'' (2015) *''Individual Differences and Personality (3rd ed.)'' (2010) *''Test the Nation: The IQ Book'' (2003) *''Individual Differences (2nd ed.)'' (2002) *''Intelligence and Abilities'' (2002) *''Individual Differences'' (1997)

Articles

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References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of Queen's University Belfast 21st-century British psychologists Alumni of the University of Exeter {{UK-psychologist-stub