Professor Lazar Stankov

Professor Lazar Stankov earned his BA at the University of Belgrade in former Yugoslavia and a PhD in psychology at the University of Denver, USA. He worked in the Department of Psychology, at the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia for two years and at the University of Sydney, Australia for more than thirty years. He has taught courses in assessment and individual differences. The focus of his research has been on intelligence, personality and issues related to the assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive traits. After retiring from the University of Sydney he spent five years working as the Principle Research Scientist within the Research & Development Division at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a member of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), Australian Psychological Society, American Psychological Association (APA) and American Educational Research Association (AERA). He has served on editorial boards of several journals including Intelligence, Learning and Individual Differences, Australian Journal of Psychology, Psihologija, Personality and Individual Differences and has authored over 120 articles and book chapters.

Professor Stankov has been particularly interested in studying neuropsychological aspects of intelligence, in developing cognitive tests based on sensory modalities other than vision (auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory), in the role of basic cognitive processes (attention, working memory, mental speed), and in the distinction between task difficulty and task complexity. On a more applied side, he studied cognitive changes during adulthood and he has developed tests that are currently used for personnel selection. Much of his current work is on the role of metacognitive processes in test-taking and in the area between intelligence and personality. This includes the study of self-confidence, amoral social attitudes and the effects of cultural factors on test performance. Currently he is also doing research in social and cross-cultural psychology and has carried out large-scale studies of cross-cultural differences in personality, social attitudes, values and social norms.  Part of this work involves the development of scales for the assessment of a militant extremist mindset.

Professor Stankov's major research interests include:

  • Intelligence
  • Self-confidence/Metacognition
  • Personality
  • Values
  • Social Norms
  • Cross-cultural Psychology
  • Methodology
  • Individual Differences
  • Personnel Selection


Qualifications

BA (Belgrade), PhD (Denver)

Selected Publications
BooksExtending Intelligence

Kyllonen, P.C., Roberts, R.D. & Stankov, L. (Eds) (2008) Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Book Chapters

Stankov, L., Saucier, G. & Kneževiæ, G. (2011) Militant Extremist Mindset. In S. Boag & N. Tiliopoulos (Eds) Personality & Intelligence: Theory, Assessment & Applications. Nova Science Publishers, INC.

Roberts, R.D., Stankov, L., Schulze, R. & Kyllonen, P.C. (2008) Extending Intelligence: Conclusions and future directions. In P.C. Kyllonen, R.D. Roberts & L. Stankov (Eds) (2008) Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kyllonen, P.C., Stankov, L. & Roberts, R.D. (2008) Enhancement and New constructs: Overview and rationale. In Kyllonen, P.C., Roberts, R.D., and Stankov, L. (Eds) (2008) Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Stankov, L. & Kleitman, S. (2008) Processes on the borderline between cognitive abilities and personality: Confidence and its realism. In G.J. Boyle, G. Matthews & D. Saklofske (Eds) The Handbook of Personality Theory and Testing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Stankov, L. & Lee, J. (2008) Culture: Ways of thinking and believing. In G.J. Boyle, G. Matthews, & D. Saklofske (Eds) The Handbook of Personality Theory and Testing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Stankov, L. (2005) ‘g’ factor: Issues of design and interpretation. In O. Wilhelm & R. Engle (Eds) Understanding and Measuring Intelligence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Stankov, L. (2005) Reductionism versus charting: Ways of examining the role of lower-order processes in intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg and Jean E. Pretz (Eds) Cognition and Intelligence:¨Identifying the mechanisms of the mind. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Stankov, L. (2004) Similar thoughts under different stars: Conceptions of intelligence in Australia. In R. Sternberg (Ed) International handbook of the psychology of human intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stankov, L. (2003) Complexity in human intelligence. In R. Sternberg, J. Lautrey & T. Lubart (Eds) Models of Intelligence: International Perspectives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Stankov, L. (2001) 'g': A diminutive general. In R. Sternberg and E. Grigorenko (Eds) General Factor of Intelligence: How general is it? Los Angeles: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Journal Articles 

Stankov, L. (2011) Individual, country and societal cluster differences on measures of personality, attitudes, values and norms. Learning and Individual Differences, 21 (1), 55–66.

Stankov, L., Saucier, G. & Knezevic, G. (2010) Militant extremist mindset: Pro-Violence, Vile World, and Divine Power.  Psychological Assessment, 22(1), 70-86.

Stankov, L., Higgins, D., Saucier, G. & Knezevic, G. (2010) Contemporary militant extremism: A linguistic approach to scale development. Psychological Assessment. 22(2), 246-258.

Stankov, L. (2010) Unforgiving Confucian culture: A breeding ground for high achievement, anxiety and self-doubt? Learning and Individual Differences, 20(6), 555–563.

Stankov, L. (2010) Unforgiveness, method and beyond. Learning and Individual Differences, 20(6), 577–578.

Stankov, L., Lee, J. & Paek, I. (2009) Realism of confidence judgments. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 25, 123-130.

Stankov, L. (2009) Conservatism and cognitive ability. Intelligence, 37, 294–304.

Saucier, G., Akers, L.G., Miller, S.S., Stankov, L. & Knezevic, G. (2009) Patterns of thinking in militant extremism. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(3), 256-271.

Stankov, L. & Lee, J. (2009) Dimensions of cultural differences: Pancultural, etic/emic, and ecological approaches. Learning and Individual Difference, 19(3), 339-354.

Stankov, L. (2009) Large-scale Cross-cultural Studies of Cognitive and Noncognitive Constructs. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(3), 327-330.

Stankov, L. & Lee, J. (2008) Confidence and cognitive test performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 961-976.

Burns, N., Nettelbeck, T., McPherson J. & Stankov, L. (2007) Perceptual learning on inspection time and motion perception: Correlations of neural plasticity with intelligence. Journal of General Psychology, 134, 83 -100.

Kleitman, S. & Stankov, L. (2007) Self-confidence and Metacognitive Processes. Learning and Individual Differences, 17, 161–173.

Stankov, L. (2007) The structure among measures of personality, social attitudes, values, and social norms. Journal of Individual Differences, 28(4), 240-251.

Stankov, L. & Schweizer, K. (2007) Raven’s Progressive Matrices, manipulations of complexity and measures of accuracy, speed and confidence. Psychology Science, 49, 326-342.

Stankov, L., Danthiir, V., Williams, L., Pallier, G., Roberts, R. & Gordon, E. (2006) Intelligence and the tuning–in of brain networks. Learning and Individual Differences, 16, 116-146.

Stankov, L. & Kneževiæ, G, (2005) Amoral social attitudes and value orientations among Serbs and Australians. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57(5)115-128.

Pallier, G., Wilkinson, R. Danthiir, V., Kleitman, S., Knezevic, G., Stankov, L. & Roberts, R. (2002) The role of individual differences in the realism of confidence judgments. Journal of General Psychology, 129, 257-300.

Stankov, L., Seizova-Cajic, T. & Roberts, R. (2001) Tactile and kinesthetic perceptual processes within the taxonomy of human abilities. Intelligence, 29, 1-29.

Danthiir, V., Roberts, R.D., Pallier, G. & Stankov, L. (2001) What the nose knows: Olfaction and cognitive abilities. Intelligence, 29, 337-361.

Kleitman, S. & Stankov, L. (2001) Ecological and person-driven aspects of metacognitive processes in test-taking. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 321-341.

Stankov, L. (2000) Complexity, metacognition, and fluid intelligence. Intelligence, 28(2), 121-143.

Pallier, G., Roberts, R. & Stankov, L. (2000) Biological vs. Psychometric Intelligence: Halstead’s(1947) distinction re-visited. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 15(3), 205-226.

Stankov, L. (2000) Intelligence debates & some Australian confusions. Australian Psychologist, 35, 73-76.

Stankov, L. & Dolph, B. (2000) Metacognitive aspects of test-taking and intelligence. Psychologische Beitrage, 42, 213-227.

Roberts, R.D., Goff, G.N., Anjoul, F., Kyllonen, P.C., Pallier, G. & Stankov, L. (2000) The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB): Not much more than acculturated learning (Gc)!?  Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 81-103.

Stankov, L. (2000) Structural extension of a hierarchical view on human cognitive abilities. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 35-51.

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