Adrian Furnham

Furnham has a broad range of research interests within the field of psychology. He has explored topics within applied, economic, health, occupational, social and differential psychology. As of 2018, he has published 92 books and over 1,200 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Furnham is a fellow of the British Psychological Society; he was granted the British Psychological Society Award for Academic Contribution to Practice in 2011.

Early life Furnham was born on 3 February 1953 to British parents in Port Shepstone, in the Union of South Africa. He was an only child. His father was a newspaper printer and publisher, and his mother was a nurse. Alongside his books, Furnham has written newspaper pieces for Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Times Higher Education Supplement, Sunday Times, and contributed to various magazines, including: The Spectator, Personnel Management, New Scientist, Across the Board and Spotlight, in both Europe and North America. He has been a columnist in multiple management magazines such as Mastering Management and Human Resources. He also developed the High Flyer Trait Inventory (formerly High Flying Personality Inventory), with his colleague Ian Macrae in 2014.

The relationship between tests of preference and power To this day, Furnham has maintained an interest in the distant relationship between the two pillars differential psychology. Furnham had given his opinion on this topic to the International Society for the Study of Individual differences. He works on this topic with the help of his PhD students. Dark side personality research was based on the DSM-III. Using the Hogan Development Survey in various studies, Furnham was able to collect sufficient amounts of data, which later on aided in studying misbehaviour at work. According to the HDS, mischievous people were considered to be extraverts, disagreeable, deliberate, and stable. They scored high on the excitement scale and low on the consciousness scale. Furnham has written multiple papers as well as two books on this topic.

Publications Books As of 2019, he has written over 92 books and over 1,200 scientific papers, including:

1990: The Protestant Work Ethic 1994: Culture Shock 1994: Personality at Work 1995: The New Economic Mind 1996: The Myths of Management 1997: The Psychology of Behaviour at Work 1998: The Psychology of Money 2003: The Incompetent Manager 2004: The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work 2005: The People Business 2006: Management Mumbo-Jumbo 2007: Head and Heart Management 2008: Management Intelligence 2009: 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know 2009: The Elephant in the Boardroom: The Psychology of Leadership Derailment 2012: The Talented Manager 2015: High Potential 2017: Motivation and Performance

Awards and achievements

2010: Elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust 2010: Elected Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences