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General mental ability and pay: Nonlinear effects.

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This paper examined the relationship between cognitive ability and pay in a large, nationally representative sample, using pay as an indicator of economic success and found that the effect of general mental ability on pay depends on occupational complexity.
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This article is published in Intelligence.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 14 citations till now.

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Can super smart leaders suffer from too much of a good thing? The curvilinear effect of intelligence on perceived leadership behavior.

TL;DR: A direct empirical test of a precise curvilinear model of the intelligence-leadership relation is tested, indicating that the optimal IQ for perceived leadership will appear at about 1.2 standard deviations above the mean IQ of the group membership.
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Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes:

TL;DR: The authors found that cognitive ability measured in youth has a positive association with most occupational, educational, health, and social outcomes later in life, and no support for any downside to higher ability and no evidence for a threshold beyond which greater scores cease to be beneficial.
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Are genetic and environmental influences on job satisfaction stable over time? A three-wave longitudinal twin study

TL;DR: Environmental influences on job satisfaction were related to interpersonal conflict at work and occupational status, and these influences were relatively stable across the 3 time points, which offer important implications for organizations and employees to better understand and implement practices to enhance job satisfaction.
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Adolescents’ intelligence is related to family income

TL;DR: The authors examined their finding in two large, nationally representative American samples and found that in these samples (log) income had a strong positive relationship with intelligence, and that adolescents' intelligence is related to parents' educational levels but not to family income.
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How stock-flow failure and general cognitive ability impact performance in operational dynamic control tasks

TL;DR: It is found that the total impact of general cognitive ability on control performance is higher than the direct effect of stock-flow thinking, which contributes to theory building in behavioral operational research and demonstrates how adoption of perspectives other than the traditional paradigms used can help.
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Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences

TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
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The nature of human intelligence.

TL;DR: There is a lot of books, user manual, or guidebook that related to The Nature Of Human Intelligence PDF, such as : classical mechanics upadhyaya bond more third papers in non verbal reasoning 9 10 years fiesta mk4 manual a visit of charity origami insects dover origami papercraft robert j lang author powerone bdsm big magic creative living beyond fear the weaver of tomorrow and dawn strider two stories calculus finney demana waits kennedy 3rd edition mathematical models in population biology and epidemiology texts in applied mathematics as discussed by the authors.
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The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of cognitive class and education in the United States and the role of race and ethnicity in cognitive ability in the development of cognitive ability and the level of American education.
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The Provision of Incentives in Firms

TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing work on the provision of incentives for workers is presented, and the authors evaluate this literature in the light of a growing empirical literature on compensation from two perspectives: first, an underlying assumption of this literature is that individuals respond to contracts that reward performance.
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