Haier is a professor emeritus in the Pediatric Neurology Division of the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine. He has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University where he studied personally and individual differences with Robert Hogan and with Julian Stanley on the Study of Mathematically and Scientifically Precocious Youth. Following his PhD from Hopkins in 1975, he was a Staff Fellow at NIMH with David Rosenthal and worked on data from the Denmark Adoption Studies of schizophrenia. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Intelligence since 2016.[1]
Haier, Richard J. (2016-12-28). The Neuroscience of Intelligence. Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1107461437. OCLC951742581.
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence & Cognitive Neuroscience (co-edited with Aron Barbey and Sherif Karama, Cambridge University Press, 2021)
The Science of Human Intelligence (with Roberto Colom and Earl Hunt, Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Journal articles
Haier RJ, White NS, Alkire MT (2003). "Individual differences in general intelligence correlate to brain function during non- reasoning tasks". Intelligence. 31 (5): 429–441. doi:10.1016/s0160-2896(03)00025-4.
Haier RJ, Alkire MT, White NS, Uncapher M, Lott IT, Head E, Cotman CW (2003). "Temporal cortex hyper-metabolism in Down syndrome prior to the onset of dementia". Neurology. 61 (12): 1673–1679. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000098935.36984.25. PMID14694028. S2CID11526800.