Nathan R. Kuncel is the Marvin D. Dunnette Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a McKnight Presidential Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he also earned his doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Nathan’s research focuses on how individual characteristics such as intelligence, personality, and interests influence subsequent work, academic, and life success as well as efforts to model and measure success. His staffing research focuses on the predictive power of different characteristics, effective measurement of cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics, and the effects of decision making on the utility of hiring and admissions decisions.