Symen A. Brouwers

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-cultural and historical meta-analysis of Raven's Progressive Matrices was performed, and the authors found that the Flynn effect can be found in high as well as low GNP countries.

TL;DR: This article made a historical analysis of the contents of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JCCP) in the period between 1970 and 2004, and found that a persistent strong focus on cross-cultural differences and a simultaneous underrating of cross-culture similarities was found.

TL;DR: This article evaluated the construct validity of the Dutch LEAS-C in a sample of 318 children, aged 10 to 17 years, and found that the pattern of relationships with ability and trait-oriented emotional intelligence, intelligence, person- ality, social and emotional impairment, and gender was generally consistent with previous theorizing and adult studies on the LEAS.

TL;DR: The confounding of chronological and educational age and of schooling and socioeconomic status are persistent problems in the study of the cognitive consequences of schooling as discussed by the authors, and the educational system among the Kharwar in India provides a natural experiment to overcome these problems.

TL;DR: The relationship between educational age and chronological age and measures of information processing and intelligence was studied in a group of children of 7 to 14 years of age (N = 268) in a rural area in the Ntcheu district (Malawi) as discussed by the authors.