(1998). Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor analytic studies. Gifted and Talented International: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 97-98.

Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor analytic studies

While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended--for example, in dreams and trancelike states. All who read The Act of Creation will find it a compelling and illuminating book.

The Act of Creation

http://www.iapsych.com/wmfhcaarchive/LinkedDocuments/mcgrew2009.pdf

CHC theory and the human cognitive abilities project: Standing on the shoulders of the giants of psychometric intelligence research

Response bias continues to be the most frequently cited criticism of personality testing for personnel selection. The authors meta-analyzed the social desirability literature, examining whether social desirability functions as a predictor for a variety of criteria, as a suppressor, or as a mediator. Social desirability scales were found not to predict school success, task performance, counterproductive behaviors, and job performance. Correlations with the Big Five personality dimensions, cognitive ability, and years of education are presented along with empirical evidence that (a) social desirability is not as pervasive a problem as has been anticipated by industrial-organizational psychologists, (b) social desirability is in fact related to real individual differences in emotional stability and conscientiousness, and (c) social desirability does not function as a predictor, as a practically useful suppressor, or as a mediator variable for the criterion of job performance. Removing the effects of social desirability from the Big Five dimensions of personality leaves the criterion-related validity of personality constructs for predicting job performance intact.

Role of social desirability in personality testing for personnel selection: The red herring

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schacterlab/files/beatybenedecksilviaschacter2016.pdf?m=1462893201

Markus Sommer

Papers

Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity.

Neural efficiency as a function of task demands.

Self-disgust in mental disorders — symptom-related or disorder-specific?

Using Automatic Item Generation to Meet the Increasing Item Demands of High-Stakes Educational and Occupational Assessment.

The effect of different types of perceptual manipulations on the dimensionality of automatically generated figural matrices