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{{Short description|Canadian psychologist}}
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'''Keith E. Stanovich''' is a Canadian psychologist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the [[Organization:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]] and former Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science. His research areas are the [[Philosophy:Psychology of reasoning|psychology of reasoning]] and the psychology of reading. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is, how it works, and what it does for the mind. His research on the cognitive basis of rationality has been featured in the journal ''Behavioral and Brain Sciences'' and in recent books by Yale University Press and University of Chicago Press. His book ''What Intelligence Tests Miss'' won the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education. He received the 2012 [[Social:E. L. Thorndike Award|E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award]] from the American Psychological Association.

==Academic career==
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Stanovich has done extensive research on reading, language disabilities, and the psychology of rational thought. His classic article on the Matthew effect in education has been cited over 1,000 times in the scientific literature.  He is the author of over 175 scientific articles, several of which have become Current Contents Citation Classics. Stanovich coined the term [[Philosophy:Dysrationalia|dysrationalia]] to refer to the tendency toward irrational thinking and action despite adequate intelligence. In several recent books, he has explored the concept as well as the relation between rationality and intelligence. In his book ''The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking'', Stanovich and colleagues follow through on the claim that a comprehensive test of rational thinking is scientifically possible, given current knowledge.

In a three-year survey of citation rates during the mid-1990s,<ref>Byrnes, J. P. (1997). Explaining citation counts of senior developmental psychologists. Developmental Review, 17, 62–77</ref> Stanovich was listed as one of the fifty most-cited developmental psychologists. He has also been named one of the 25 most productive educational psychologists.<ref>Smith, M. C., et al., Productivity of educational psychologists in educational psychology journals, 1997–2001. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 28, 422–430</ref> In a citation survey of the period 1982–1992, he was designated the most cited reading disability researcher in the world.<ref>Nicolson, R. I. Developmental dyslexia: Past, present and future. Dyslexia, 1996, 2, 190–207</ref>

Stanovich is also a fellow of the [[Organization:Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CSI Fellows and Staff|url=http://www.csicop.org/about/csi_fellows_and_staff/|access-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref>

==Awards==
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Stanovich is the only two-time winner of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for influential articles on reading. In 1995, he was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame as the youngest member of that honorary society. In 1996, he was given the Oscar Causey Award from the National Reading Conference for contributions to research and in 1997, he received the Sylvia Scribner Award from the [[Organization:American Educational Research Association|American Educational Research Association]]. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. He was awarded the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Education from the [[Organization:University of Louisville|University of Louisville]] and was selected as a 2010 Grawemeyer Award winner for his 2009 book, ''What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought.''<ref name=grawemeyer.org>{{cite web|title=Video interview with Keith Stanovich, winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education|url=http://grawemeyer.org/news-updates/video-interview-with-keith-stanovich-winner-of-the-2010-grawemeyer-award-in-education}}</ref> Stanovich is a Fellow of the [[Organization:American Psychological Association|American Psychological Association]] (Divisions 3 [experimental], 7 [developmental], 8 [Personality & Social], & 15 [Educational]), the American Psychological Society, the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, and is a Charter Member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. He was a member of the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences.  From 1986 to 2000, he was the associate editor of ''Merrill-Palmer Quarterly'', a leading journal of human development.

==Publications==
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = Lawrence Erlbaum
| isbn = 0-8058-2473-1
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = Who Is Rational?: Studies of individual Differences in Reasoning
| date = March 1, 1999
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = Guilford Press
| isbn = 1-57230-565-7
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = Progress in Understanding Reading: Scientific Foundations and New Frontiers
| date = April 21, 2000
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = [[Organization:University of Chicago Press|University of Chicago Press]]
| isbn = 0-226-77089-3
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
| date = May 15, 2004
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = Yale University Press
| isbn = 978-0-300-12385-2
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
| date = January 27, 2009
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/whatintelligence00stan
}}
* {{Cite book
| publisher = [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]]
| isbn = 978-0-19-532812-7
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
| date = July 30, 2009
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]]
| isbn = 978-0-19-534114-0
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = Rationality and the Reflective Mind
| year = 2011
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 10
| publisher = Pearson
| isbn = 978-0-205-91412-8
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = How to Think Straight About Psychology
| date = September 29, 2012
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = MIT Press
| isbn =  978-0-262-03484-5
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
| year = 2016
}}
* {{Cite book
| edition = 1
| publisher = MIT Press
| isbn =  978-0-262-04575-9
| last = Stanovich
| first = Keith E.
| author-mask=1
| title = The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Bias
| year = 2021
}}

==See also==
* [[Cognitive miser]]
* [[Philosophy:Great Rationality Debate|Great Rationality Debate]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/aphd/Research/Faculty_Members/Adjunct_Professors/Keith_Stanovich/index.html Keith Stanovich's page] at the [[Organization:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]]
* [http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/stanovich.htm How reading works and what it does for the mind], an interview with Keith Stanovich
* {{cite web |last1=Stanovich |first1=Keith E. |url=http://www.keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning.html |title=Publications on reasoning and rationality |website=keithstanovich.com |access-date=October 16, 2016}}


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