Michael A. McDaniel

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| fields = Industrial psychology

| workplaces = Virginia Commonwealth University

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| alma_mater = George Washington University

| thesis_title = The evaluation of a causal model of job performance: the interrelationships of general mental ability, job experience, and job performance {{cite web |last1=McDaniel |first1=Michael |title=The evaluation of a causal model of job performance: the interrelationships of general mental ability, job experience, and job performance |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/c2291a7816e2ebe9c80a42535747e4b7/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |website=ProQuest |access-date=8 April 2023 |date=1986}}

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| thesis_year = 1986

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| known_for = Personnel selection

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| awards = Dean's Scholar from Virginia Commonwealth University (2016-2017)

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Michael A. McDaniel is an American industrial and organizational psychologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Management at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was concurrently a research professor in the Department of Psychology. He is known for his research on personnel selection and publication bias,{{Cite web |url=http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mamcdani/ |title=Michael McDaniel |website=Virginia Commonwealth University |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228122029/http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mamcdani/ |archivedate=2016-02-28 }} as well as on the relationship between brain size and intelligence.{{Cite web |url=http://www.livescience.com/3862-bigger-brains-smarter-people.html |title=Bigger Brains Make Smarter People |last=Britt |first=Robert Roy |website=LiveScience.com |date=20 June 2005}} His current research interests include personnel selection, publication bias, and research integrity. He was employed at Work Skills First, Inc., a human resource consulting firm specializing in personnel selection and expert witness services related to personnel selection. He retired in 2024. He was elected as a Fellow into the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In 2015, he served a one-year term as president of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR).{{Cite web|url=http://www.isironline.org/isir-officers/|title=ISIR Officers|website=ISIR|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-27}}