Joseph Lee Rodgers

Joseph Lee Rodgers III (born February 9, 1953)[2] is an American psychologist who specializes in quantitative psychology and topics in developmental psychology and social biology. He is the Lois Autrey Betts Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, and he is also the George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught from 1981 to 2012.

Joseph Lee Rodgers III
Born (1953-02-09) February 9, 1953
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
SpouseJacci Rodgers[1]
ChildrenTwo daughters[1]
AwardsFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Scientific career
FieldsQuantitative psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oklahoma
Vanderbilt University
ThesisEffects of Family Configuration on Mental Development (1981)
Doctoral advisorVaida Thompson

Education and Career

Rodgers graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1975 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981, with a minor in biostatistics. His dissertation was on the effects of family configuration on mental development.

He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology, the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and Divisions 5 and 34 of the American Psychological Association. From 2006 to 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Multivariate Behavioral Research. He has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012.[3]

His substantive research has focused on topics such as the relationship between birth order and human intelligence,[4][5] as well as adolescent risk behaviors, like sexual activity and drug use.[6][7][8] His methodological research focuses on behavior genetics, exploratory data analysis,[9] correlation and regression,[10][11] and best practices for research methods [12]

References
  1. "Dr. Joseph L. Rodgers". SMEP. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  2. "Rodgers, Joseph Lee, 1953-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  3. "Joseph Lee Rodgers". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  4. Eakin, Emily (2004-02-14). "What Runs In the Family Isn't Success". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  5. Bazelon, Emily (2007-06-26). "Out of Order". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  6. "Summer Sexy Time for Teens". NewsOK.com. 1991-08-07. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. Kluger, Jeffrey (2006-07-10). "The New Science of Siblings". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  8. Roan, Shari (1996-10-21). "The Path of No Return". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  9. Fife, D. A., & Rodgers, J. L. (2022). Understanding the exploratory/confirmatory data analysis continuum: Moving beyond the "replication crisis". American Psychologist, 77(3), 453–466. doi:10.1037/amp0000886
  10. Rodgers, Joseph Lee; Nicewander, W. Alan (1988-02-01). "Thirteen Ways to Look at the Correlation Coefficient". The American Statistician. 42 (1): 59–66. doi:10.1080/00031305.1988.10475524. ISSN 0003-1305.
  11. Hadd, Alexandria Ree; Rodgers, Joseph Lee (2021). Understanding correlation matrices. Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-5443-4110-1. OCLC 1289850692.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. Rodgers, J. L. & Shrout, P. E.(2018). Psychology’s replication crisis as scientific opportunity: A précis for policymakers. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(1), 134-141. doi:10.1177/2372732217749254.


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