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.

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. 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. Ritchie writes a newsletter titled Science Fictions for the newspaper i which, like his book of the same name, focuses on scientific controversies and bias and fraud in scientific research.
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.

Publications

Intelligence: All That Matters
''Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth''