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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Relative roles of cognitive ability and practical intelligence in the prediction of success.
TL;DR: Results of structural equation modeling support Sternberg and Wagner's assertion that practical intelligence and general cognitive ability are relatively independent constructs, however, results of regression analysis do not support their contention that practical Intelligence is related to success after controlling for general Cognitive ability.
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Investigating the Unique Predictors of Word-Problem Solving Using Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling
TL;DR: In this paper, the contributions of cognitive skills (nonverbal reasoning, language comprehension, working memory, attention, mathematics vocabulary, and reading comprehension) in performing mathematics word problems among elementary school students were clarified.
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IQ and Alcohol Consumption: International Data
Ariel R. Belasen,Rik Hafer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically test whether the relationship holds at the national level as well using national IQ measures and data on per capita alcohol consumption, and they test the hypothesis that higher-IQ countries are characterized by higher levels of beer and wine consumption.
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Lived experiences of women leaders regarding their spiritual intelligence and its use in higher educational leadership settings in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative and existential phenomenological study was conducted to understand the experience of women academic leaders concerning their spiritual intelligence and its use within the higher educational institutions leadership, which revealed four approaches of integrating spiritual intelligence into leadership practices which include creating sense of meaning and purpose within people, empowering employees, viewing things in larger patterns and understand its relationships and connections by being holistic and cultivating and demonstrate values as part of the organisational culture.
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Finding the missing Einsteins: Expanding the breadth of cognitive and noncognitive measures used in academic services
Jonathan Wai,Joni M. Lakin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors leverage three nationally representative samples of the U.S. population at different time points that include both novel cognitive measures and non-cognitive measures (e.g., conscientiousness, creativity or word fluency, leadership skill, and artistic skill) to uncover which measures would improve proportional representation of marginalized groups in talent identification procedures.
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