Research Topics

Research at Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation suggests that spatial ability is the primary explanation for the Flynn effect.

Memory for Design shows many relationships with vocational and educational criteria that cannot be accounted for by the general intelligence factor, g.

Ideaphoria scores and occupations.

As part of the Research Department's mission to communicate our research findings to the public, we continue to make presentations at professional conferences, write articles published in scholarly journals, and collaborate with other researchers.

Students were tested when they began their studies at the University of Texas.

Aptitude test scores for examinees in writing occupations.

Two-dimensional occupational plots show simultaneously the mean performance of various occupational groups on two of our standard battery tests.

The Foundation’s founder and namesake, Johnson O’Connor, had an abiding interest in the biological substrate of individual differences in aptitudes.

Studies of twins suggest a genetic component to aptitudes.

We also studied the long-term stability of English Vocabulary.

For a number of years, we have been studying the long-term stability of our tests. In 2013, David Schroeder carried out a study on Pitch Discrimination and Rhythm Memory and reported his findings in Statistical Bulletin 2013-12, Long-Term Stability for Pitch Discrimination and Rhythm Memory.

Past examinees were asked about their satisfaction with our aptitude testing.

Auditory aptitudes correlate with other aptitude measures.

We test three auditory abilities: Tonal Memory, Pitch Discrimination, and Rhythm Memory. We did a study that showed that scores on these tests are indeed high for musicians, but also for people in a range of other occupations.

Theatre artists as a whole scored higher than our general testing population on many of our aptitude tests.

“Person-job fit” is a term from industrial-organizational psychology used to describe how well people fit into their occupational environments.

The Foresight aptitude shows a correlation with scores on the Creative Achievement Questionnaire.