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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The evolution of general intelligence
TL;DR: Empirical analyses support Richard Lynn’s cold winters theory and the evolutionary novelty theory of the evolution of general intelligence, which can account for the observed race difference in intelligence.
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National Intelligence and National Prosperity.
Earl Hunt,Werner W. Wittmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the Lynn and Vanhanen data set and find that although the correlation between the IQ scores and GDP/c is approximately the same in developed and developing nations, the absolute error in prediction of GDP from IQ is greater in the developing than the developed nations.
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General mental ability and two types of adaptation to unforeseen change: Applying discontinuous growth models to the task-change paradigm
Jonas W. B. Lang,Paul D. Bliese +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis revealed that GMA was negatively related to transition adaptation and found no evidence for a relationship between GMA and reacquisition adaptation, and implications of using the described discontinuous growth modeling framework to study adaptability are discussed.
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Handbook of Giftedness in Children: Psychoeducational Theory, Research, and Best Practices
TL;DR: Gifted identification beyond the IQ test: Rating scales and other assessment procedures as mentioned in this paper have been used to assess the giftedness in school-aged children using measures of intelligence or cognitive abilities.
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The Measure of All Minds: Evaluating Natural and Artificial Intelligence
TL;DR: Using algorithmic information theory as a foundation, the book elaborates on the evaluation of perceptual, developmental, social, verbal and collective features and critically analyzes what the future of intelligence might look like.
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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
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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