Dr. Fergus Craik - Personally

Dr. Craik met his wife, Anne, at the University of Edinburgh. Fergus had asked people, for his undergraduate thesis, to make judgments about how long they had been working based on complexity of the task given. "I ended up testing 120 participants, possibly the largest scale study I have ever run. But I did the decent thing and married one of them - my wife Anne."

Fergus and Anne had two children, now with children of their own. Dr. Craik states about his family: "they were often shortchanged while I struggled to meet yet another deadline. I was somewhat taken aback on one occasion by being asked by one of my children's friends (teenagers at the time) whether I was 'actually a workaholic' but my alarm was reduced when the same youth later commented to my wife (who, like me, has mildly leftist views) that 'he had never met a real communist before!'"