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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Unwrapping Gifts: Understanding the Inner Workings of Giftedness Through a Panoply of Paradigms in the Field of Psychology
TL;DR: In this paper , the implications of many of the major schools in the history of psychology for understanding giftedness and its inner workings are reviewed, including operationist, psychometric, psychoanalytic, associationist, behaviorist, Gestalt, cognitive, humanistic/positive psychology, functionalist/pragmatic/constructivist, cultural, and biological.
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Economics, Values, and Cognitive Ability
Randy Thornhill,Corey L. Fincher +1 more
TL;DR: The parasite-stress hypothesis of economics proposes that variation in infectious disease across regions causes variation in economic productivity by three proximate causes: (1) Infectious diseases cause morbidity, reducing people's capability to produce; (2) Parasite stress evokes people's values, which, in turn, cause regional economic parameters.
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Investigating cognitive ability using action-based models of structural brain networks
TL;DR: This research proposes variants of the action-based model that combine a variety of generative factors capable of explaining the topology of the human connectome and provides evidence that geometric constraints are vital for connectivity between brain regions and an action- based model relying on both topological and geometric properties can account for between-subject variability in structural network properties.
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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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Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology
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A nation at risk: the imperative for educational reform
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