Eric Nathan Turkheimer is an American psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.

He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) in 1986, where he studied under Lee Willerman and John Loehlin.

[12][13] Since then, along with his University of Virginia colleague David Fask, he has published other studies that also suggest that IQ is more heritable among wealthy families than among poor ones.

[14][15] In a 2011 commentary about environmental influences on human behavior,[16] he wrote that “The nonshared environment, in a phrase, is free will.

Not the kind of metaphysical free will that no one believes in anymore, according to which human souls float free above the mechanistic constraints of the physical world, but an embodied free will, tethered to biology, that encompasses our ability to respond to complex circumstances in complex and unpredictable ways and in the process to build a self.”[17] Turkheimer has been featured on multiple YouTube talk shows, including Stefan Molyneux,[18] The Majority Report with Sam Seder,[19] and The David Pakman Show.