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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Enhanced classroom interaction and the quality of teaching in practice
TL;DR: The study conveys the challenges I faced as a student teacher in a career path of initial teacher education aggravated by an unfamiliar education dispensation, my subsequent initiation into my career as a professional teacher, and my quest to remain a scholarly practitioner by enrolling for post graduate teacher education studies.
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The Whole-Brain N-Acetylaspartate Correlates with Education in Normal Adults
Lidia Glodzik,William E. Wu,James S. Babb,Lutz Achtnichts,Michael Amann,Marc Sollberger,Andreas U. Monsch,Achim Gass,Oded Gonen +8 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that late-life WBNAA may be more affected by other factors acting at midlife and later, rather than formal educational attainment, a common proxy for cognitive reserve.
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Importance of Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence for Physicians.
TL;DR: The authors highlighted emotional intelligence (EQ) as an alternative to IQ, but other predictors of success in medicine should be considered as well, and there is not a binary choice between IQ and EQ.
Life Interrupted: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Doctoral Persistence with a Diagnosis of Cancer
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an autoethnographic approach to examine the factors that lead to successful completion of a doctoral degree after the devastating diagnosis of cancer, and found a strong relationship to spiritual faith as a basis for resilience and persistence.
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Can a Neandertal meditate? An evolutionary view of attention as a core component of general intelligence
Emiliano Bruner,Roberto Colom +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors consider the paleontological and archaeological evidence that may provide information on the evolution of the human attention system in the human genus and suggest that the parietal cortex experienced a relative enlargement in Neandertals and, most prominently, in modern humans.
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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.