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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Assessing the U.S. presidents using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory
TL;DR: The use of objective psychological instruments, including the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), to assess the personalities of all 41 U.S. presidents to date is described.
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Too smart for their own good? A study of perceived cognitive overqualification in the workforce
Saul Fine,Baruch Nevo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the concept of cognitive overqualification, the possession of a higher level of cognitive ability than is required for a given job, and found that cognitive over-qualification was associated with job dissatisfaction, but was only weakly related to measures of job and training performance.
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Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that individual differences in intelligence are consistently associated with leader performance, including the assessed performance of presidents of the United States, including George W. Bush and his presidency.
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The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians.
Andrea Danese,Terrie E. Moffitt,Louise Arseneault,Ben Bleiberg,Perry Dinardo,Stephanie Gandelman,Renate Houts,Antony Ambler,Helen L. Fisher,Richie Poulton,Avshalom Caspi +10 more
TL;DR: Findings from two population-representative birth cohorts totaling more than 3,000 individuals and born 20 years and 20,000 km apart suggest that the association between childhood violence victimization and later cognition is largely noncausal, in contrast to conventional interpretations.
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On why “emotional intelligence” will not predict leadership effectiveness beyond iq or the “big five”: an extension and rejoinder
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the importance of using methodologically defensible scientific criteria for conducting or evaluating research and show that support for the EI construct may be based more on tangential speculation than on empirical findings.
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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
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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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