Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
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In this paper, the authors provide evidence that intelligence has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essentially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing, and the more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well.About:
This article is published in Intelligence.The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1300 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Everyday life & Cognitive complexity.read more
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The associations between spindle characteristics and cognitive ability in a large adolescent birth cohort
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted the largest study into sleep spindles in a birth cohort of 17-year old adolescents using all-night polysomnography and two different sleep spindle detectors.
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The correlation between g loadings and heritability in Japan: A meta-analysis
TL;DR: The authors carried out a meta-analysis of Japanese studies reporting heritabilities of all subtests of IQ batteries to examine whether they would give the same outcomes as Western studies and concluded that there is a clear link between the g factor and heritability coefficients in Japan, but that it contrasts with the quite strong correlations found in Western studies.
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Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed skills demand and supply in Sri Lanka and scrutinised how skills are formed, the factors shaping skills demand, and the responsiveness of the system, and offered suggestions for how skills development can be improved so that Sri Lanka can meet its economic growth and poverty reduction goals.
Invalidating the Full Scale IQ Score in the Presence of Significant Factor Score Variability: Clinical Acumen or Clinical Illusion?
TL;DR: In this paper, the structural and predictive validity of the KABC-II for participants in the normative sample who were observed to have significant variability in their factor scores was investigated and support for a five-factor extraction was obtained consistent with publisher theory.
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The effects of education, self-regulation, social support and cultural participation on physical activity variety in the Baby Boomer generation
TL;DR: Alderson et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the role of formal education and self-agency in current participation in physical activity variety by the baby boomer generation and found that self-regulation, seeking social support and cultural participation (e.g. visiting museums and cultural festivals) were the main determinants of activity variety.
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Marc H. Bornstein,Howard Gardner +1 more
TL;DR: The ten-year edition of the 10th anniversary edition as mentioned in this paper is devoted to the theory of multiple intelligences and its application in the socialization of human intelligence through Symbols Implications And Applications.
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
TL;DR: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Intelligence explains the development of intelligence in the 21st Century through the applications of language, linguistics, mathematics, and more.
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The big five personality dimensions and job performance: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation of the Big Five personality dimensions (extraversion, emotional stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience) to three job performance criteria (job proficiency, training proficiency, and personnel data) for five occupational groups (professionals, police, managers, sales, and skilled/semi-skilled).
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Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology
TL;DR: An up-to-date handbook on conceptual and methodological issues relevant to the study of industrial and organizational behavior is presented in this paper, which covers substantive issues at both the individual and organizational level in both theoretical and practical terms.
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A nation at risk: the imperative for educational reform
TL;DR: Because of the extraordinary clarity and importance of the Commission's Report, the editors of the Communica t ions decided to reprint the Report's main section in its entirety and present it to you here.