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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Linking workplace literacy skills and transfer system perceptions
Reid Bates,Elwood F. Holton +1 more
TL;DR: Workplace literacy refers to the ability of individuals to respond effectively to the literacy demands of the workplace (Gowen, 1992), Workplace literacy skills are the basic skills needed by employees to successfully perform job duties, learn, and apply learning on the job as discussed by the authors.
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Is there a relationship between political orientation and cognitive ability? A test of three hypotheses in two studies
TL;DR: In this paper, two studies tested one linear and two curvilinear hypotheses concerning the relationship between political conservatism-liberalism and cognitive ability and found that some dimensions of conservatism are linked to lower verbal ability, whereas other dimensions are linked with higher verbal ability.
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The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether IQ relates systematically to denomination and income within the framework of the g nexus, using representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY97) and found that modern Atheists are reacting rationally to cognitive and emotional challenges, whereas Liberals and Dogmatics still rely on ancient, pre-rational, supernatural and wishful thinking.
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Cognitive sex differences in reasoning tasks: Evidence from Brazilian samples of educational settings
Carmen Flores-Mendoza,Keith F. Widaman,Heiner Rindermann,Ricardo Primi,Marcela Mansur-Alves,Carla Couto Pena +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the principal axis factoring of test scores to determine whether sex differences existed at the level of general intelligence and found that females outperformed males on the Attention Test (AC), the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and the Brazilian Cognitive Battery (BPR5), using four large samples (total N = ǫ6780), residing in the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.
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Executive function processes predict mobility outcomes in older adults.
Neha P. Gothe,Jason Fanning,Elizabeth A. Awick,David Chung,Thomas R. Wójcicki,Erin A. Olson,Sean P. Mullen,Michelle W. Voss,Kirk I. Erickson,Arthur F. Kramer,Edward McAuley +10 more
TL;DR: To examine the relationship between performance on executive function measures and subsequent mobility outcomes in community‐dwelling older adults, a large number of older adults are randomly assigned to a one-size‐fits‐all or two-size-fits-all model.
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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