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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Sex differences in mental abilities: g masks the dimensions on which they lie
Wendy Johnson,Thomas J. Bouchard +1 more
TL;DR: Johnson et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the structure of abilities after removing the effects of general intelligence, identifying three underlying dimensions termed rotation, focus-diffusion, and memory, with men more likely to be positioned towards the rotation and focus poles of those dimensions and women displaying generally greater memory.
Ethical issues in human enhancement
Nick Bostrom,Rebecca Roache +1 more
TL;DR: Human enhancement has emerged in recent years as a blossoming topic in applied ethics, with continuing advances in science and technology, and it is important to consider the normative questions raised by such prospects.
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Assessing Gender-Based Circumscription of Occupational Aspirations
TL;DR: The circumscription and compromise theory of vocational aspirations draws attention to the possibility that many adolescents may unnecessarily limit their vocational options as discussed by the authors, which can lead them to choose careers they might actually find interesting and perform well.
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Can’t we make it any shorter? The limits of personality assessment and ways to overcome them.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the advantages of short scales as alternative measures in large-scale surveys and highlight possible reasons for the assumed limited psychometric qualities of short scale estimators.
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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
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