Keith Stanovich

Keith Edward Stanovich (born 1950) is an American psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto, where he was also Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science. His main research areas are the psychology of reasoning and the psychology of reading. His work on reading, including an influential article on the Matthew effect in education, helped shape the scientific consensus on how reading works, and he coined the term dysrationalia for irrational thinking despite adequate intelligence. He theorizes that the thinking mind has an autonomous mind, an algorithmic mind and a reflective mind, and his later work argues that a test of rational thinking is scientifically possible and that rationality and intelligence are only weakly correlated. His 2009 book What Intelligence Tests Miss won the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education, and in 2012 he received the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association.