David C. Geary

David C. Geary received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of California at Riverside and from there held faculty positions at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Missouri, first at the Rolla campus and then in Columbia. Dr. Geary is Department Chair and Professor of Psychological Sciences, and from 2000 to 2003 was the University of Missouri’s Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences.

He has published more than 110 articles and chapters across a wide range of topics, including cognitive and developmental psychology, education, evolutionary biology, and medicine. His first two books, Children’s mathematical development (1994) and Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences (1998), were also published by the American Psychological Association.

He has given invited addresses in a variety of departments (anthropology, biology, behavior genetics, computer science, education, government, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and psychology) and Universities throughout the United States, as well as in Belgium, Canada, Germany, and Italy. In addition to these activities, he was one of the primary contributors to the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten through grade twelve. Among many distinctions is the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1996).

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