Rate My Professor Philip Ackerman

Ackerman has authored numerous influential publications, including 'Motivation and cognitive abilities: An integrative/aptitude-treatment interaction approach to skill acquisition' (1989), 'Intelligence, personality, and interests: evidence for overlapping traits' (1997), 'Aging, adult development, and work motivation' (2004), 'Trait complex, cognitive ability, and domain knowledge predictors of baccalaureate success, STEM persistence, and gender differences' (2013, with Kanfer and Beier), and 'Investment and intelligence: A review and meta-analysis' (2013, with von Stumm). He served as editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and edited or co-edited four books on individual differences, such as Cognitive Fatigue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Current Research and Future Applications (2011). An elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Psychonomic Society, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, American Educational Research Association, and Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Ackerman has received the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (applied research/psychometrics), the Franklin V. Taylor Award for Outstanding Contributions in Applied Experimental/Engineering Psychology, the 2024 SIOP Dunnette Prize (with Kanfer) for transformative research on individual differences influencing workplace learning and performance, the 2019 APA Master Lecturer award in Personality and Individual Differences, and the 2019 Julius E. Uhlaner Award for the Knowledge and Skill Lab's contributions to military selection and recruitment tools for unmanned aircraft systems personnel. In 2019, his lab received an Army Research Institute grant to develop new measures of adult intellectual abilities and trait complexes for performance prediction. His integrative approach has advanced personnel selection, adult learning, and workforce sustainability.