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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Olympics of the mind as a method to identify giftedness: Soviet and Russian experience
TL;DR: In this article, a research done on over 800 participants in the final round of a Moscow intellectual competition is reported, where tests assessing intelligence, creativity, and personality were administered, and the consistency of Olympics' results scales is found to be weak.
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Cognitive Ability in Everyday Life: The Utility of Open-Source Measures
TL;DR: The measurement of individual differences in cognitive ability has a long and important history in psychology as mentioned in this paper, but it has been impeded by the proprietary nature of most assessment measures with respect to individual differences.
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Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: exploring the role of confounding by prior cognitive ability
TL;DR: The positive and significant associations observed between ‘healthy’ lifestyle factors and better cognitive functions at age 70 were consistent with previous research; their effect size was around 1% of the variance in cognitive tests scores.
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Are There More Gifted People Than Would Be Expected in a Normal Distribution? An Investigation of the Overabundance Hypothesis.
TL;DR: This article found that the overabundance hypothesis was mostly unsupported by the data and that most datasets included approximately the same (or fewer) gifted individuals than would be predicted from a normal distribution.
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A mixed-methods study of physiological reactivity to domain-specific problem solving : methodological perspectives for process-accompanying research in VET
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-methods design was chosen to investigate in-depth processes during domain-specific problem-solving, using a computer-based office simulation, and personal characteristics were assessed by questionnaires and tests before the task.
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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
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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
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