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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Income differences among grade skippers and non-grade skippers across genders in the Terman sample, 1936–1976
Russell T. Warne,Jonathan K. Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impacts of grade skipping in adulthood using data from Terman's longitudinal study of gifted children and found no association between grade skipping and income for women in this historic dataset, but suggest a slight relationship between the two variables for men.
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Signaling Smarts? Revealed Preferences for Self and Social Perceptions of Intelligence
T. Clay McManus,Justin M. Rao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors design a laboratory experiment to test for image motives in a setting where decisions signal intelligence to a social audience, and find that intrinsic only subjects were significantly more likely to choose the high-type action than the control.
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Psychological constructions of learning potential and a systemic approach to the development of excellence
TL;DR: In this article, a systemic framework for the development of learning potential to professional excellence inspired by the Actiotope model of giftedness is introduced, where the goal is to identify the potential of a learner to achieve professional excellence.
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Three models for the regulation of polygenic scores in reproduction.
Sarah Munday,Julian Savulescu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 9Welfarist Model9 which limits embryo selection according to the impact of the predicted trait on well-being is proposed. But the model does not consider the potential for existing embryo selection technologies to predict a wider range of predicted genetically influenced characteristics including continuous traits.
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A Differential–Developmental Model (DDM): Mental Speed, Attention Lapses, and General Intelligence (g)
TL;DR: The paper proposes a Differential–Developmental Model (DDM), which focuses on factors common to intelligence and cognitive development (e.g., mental speed and attention lapses), and proposes a complementary method based on Jensen’s box, a chronometric device.
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Marc H. Bornstein,Howard Gardner +1 more
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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