Jack M. Feldman

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Jack Michael Feldman is an American psychologist best known for his work in industrial and organizational psychology. Feldman earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 1972 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently teaches at Georgia Institute of Technology.

In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence, [1] " an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal , which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to the controversy about intelligence research that followed the publication of the book The Bell Curve . Feldman is also a gun enthusiast. [2]

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