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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Intermittent Lack of Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Preventive Services
Joseph J. Sudano,David W. Baker +1 more
TL;DR: Findings showed that, among individuals who obtain insurance coverage after histories of intermittent coverage, relatively long periods may be necessary to reestablish clinically appropriate care patterns.
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Time is on my side: time, general mental ability, human capital, and extrinsic career success.
TL;DR: GMA affected growth in 2 indicators of extrinsic career success (income and occupational prestige) over a 28-year period, such that the careers of high-GMA individuals ascended more steeply over time than those of low-Gma individuals.
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Cognitive Ability, Thinking Dispositions, and Instructional Set as Predictors of Critical Thinking.
TL;DR: This paper examined the predictors of belief bias in a formal reasoning paradigm (a syllogistic reasoning task) and myside bias in two informal reasoning paradigms (an argument generation task and an experiment evaluation task).
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Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market
TL;DR: This paper found that the work-related skills of the labor force do not match the requirements of jobs and that this explains a large part of the growth of wage inequality in the United States in the past 20 years.
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Cognitive ability predicts objectively measured counterproductive work behaviors
TL;DR: This study presents the first focal investigation of the cognitive ability-CWB relationship, and finds that for a large sample of law enforcement job applicants, a standardized psychometric test of cognitive ability predicted CWB, whereas educational attainment did not.
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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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Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology
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A nation at risk: the imperative for educational reform
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