Sophie von Stumm

Email: psp01svs (@gold.ac.uk)

Biography

In 2006, I completed my BSc hons in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, and subsequently, I graduated from an MSc in the Psychology of Individual Differences (with Distinction) at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2007, I am a PhD student at the Goldsmiths’ Department of Psychology (recipient of the Departmental Bursary) and supervised by Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

Research

My research interest roots in the field of individual differences; my doctoral thesis investigates intelligence-personality associations. In this context, I specifically concentrate on (a) the evaluation of traditional psychometric and mathematical approaches to intelligence-personality associations, (b) experimental research to design and validate novel assessment instruments for mental ability and trait dispositions, and (c) theoretical approaches to a developmental framework of adult intellect.

Publications

von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Ackerman, P. L. (2011). Re-visiting intelligence-personality associations: Vindicating intellectual investment. In T. Chamorro-Premuzic, S. von Stumm, & A. Furnham (eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

von Stumm, S., Chung, A., & Furnham, A. (2010). Creative ability, creative ideation and latent classes of creative achievement: What is the role of personality? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and Arts, in press.

von Stumm, S., Macintyre, S., Batty, D. G., Clark, H., & Deary, I. (2010). Childhood intelligence, social class of origin, childhood behavior disturbance and education as predictors of occupational social status attainment in midlife: Longitudinal evidence from the UK. Intelligence, 38, 202-211.

von Stumm, S., Gale, C. R., Batty, D., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Childhood Intelligence, Behaviour and Locus of Control as Determinants of Intergenerational Social Mobility: the British Cohort Study 1970. Intelligence, 37, 329-340.

Furnham, A., von Stumm, S., Makendrayogam, A., & Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2009). A Taxonomy of Self-estimated Human Performance: The General Factor í. Journal of Individual Differences, 30, 188-193.

von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T.,  Quiroga, M. A., & Colom, R. (2009). Separating narrow and general variance in intelligence-personality associations. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 336-341.

von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2009). Decomposing self-estimates of intelligence: Structure and sex differences across 12 nations. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 429–442.

von Stumm (2008). Waking up from the American Dream? Culture Wars: Battle in Print, Battle of Ideas (Winner of the ESRC Essay Competition).

Posters & Presentations

von Stumm, S. (2010). Creative ability, creative ideation and latent classes of creative achievement: What is the role of personality? Paper presentation at the British Society of the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) in Edinburgh, UK, April 2010.  

von Stumm, S., Macintyre, S., Batty, D. G., Clark, H., & Deary, I. J. (2009). Childhood intelligence, social class of origin, childhood behavior disturbance and education as predictors of occupational social status attainment in midlife: Longitudinal evidence from the UK. Paper presentation at the International Society of Intelligence Research (ISIR) in Madrid, Spain, December 2009 (Winner of the ISIR Templeton award).

von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Quiroga, M. A., Colom, R. (2009). Predicting Academic Performance in the UK and Spain. Paper presentation at La Sociedad Española para la Investigación de las Diferencias Individuales, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 2009.

von Stumm, S., & Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2009). Shaping adult intellect: Are investment traits simply curiosity? Empirical and meta-analytic results. Symposium paper presentation at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Evanston, Chicago, Illinois, July 2009.

von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Quiroga, M. A., Colom, R. (2008). Separating Narrow and General Variances in Intelligence-Personality Associations: A Response to Reeve et al. (2006).Poster presentation at La Sociedad Española para la Investigación de las Diferencias Individuales, Salamanca, Spain, September 2008.

von Stumm, S., & Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2007). Implicit theories of intelligence and self-betrayal: The effects of negative feedback on entity and incremental theory holders. Paper presentation at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Giessen, Germany, July 2007.

Grants & Awards

von Stumm (2009). Winner of the ISIR Templeton Prize for Best Student Paper, Madrid, Spain, December 2009. 2,000 USD. John Templeton Foundation.

von Stumm (2009). A study of intellectual competence: the assessment of ability and non-ability factors. £5,000. Central Research Fund of the University of London.