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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“Keep on Keeping On, Even When It’s Hard!”: Predictors and Outcomes of Adolescent Persistence
TL;DR: This article examined adolescent persistence as a mediator between authoritative parenting and adolescents' school engagement, prosocial behavior, and delinquency, and found that adolescents' persistence served as mediators between authoritative parents and adolescents.
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Class Origin and Elite Position of Men in Business Firms in Sweden, 1993–2007: The Importance of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Personality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the impact of class origin on becoming part of the business elite between 1993 and 2007 for men aged 35-44 years. And they find a clear working class disadvantage and, with time, a polarization between those of working class origin and others.
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Racially gerrymandering the content of police tests to satisfy the U.S. Justice Department: A case study.
TL;DR: In this article, the content of a police entrance examination in Nassau County, New York, was stripped of crucial cognitive demands to change the racial composition of the applicants who seemed most qualified.
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Attentional Control and Intelligence: MRI Orbital Frontal Gray Matter and Neuropsychological Correlates
Paul G. Nestor,Motoaki Nakamura,Margaret A. Niznikiewicz,James J. Levitt,Dominick T. Newell,Martha E. Shenton,Robert W. McCarley +6 more
TL;DR: Examination of full-scale IQ and attentional control and OFC gray matter to intelligence provided evidence of the unique contributions of attentionalControl and OfC graymatter to intelligence.
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Independent evidence for an association between general cognitive ability and a genetic locus for educational attainment
Joey W. Trampush,Joey W. Trampush,Todd Lencz,Todd Lencz,Emma Knowles,Gail Davies,Saurav Guha,Itsik Pe'er,David C. Liewald,John M. Starr,Srdjan Djurovic,Ingrid Melle,Ingrid Melle,Kjetil Sundet,Andrea Christoforou,Andrea Christoforou,Ivar Reinvang,Semanti Mukherjee,Pamela DeRosse,Astri J. Lundervold,Astri J. Lundervold,Vidar M. Steen,Vidar M. Steen,Majnu John,Thomas Espeseth,Thomas Espeseth,Katri Räikkönen,Elisabeth Widen,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Johan G. Eriksson,Ina Giegling,Bettina Konte,Masashi Ikeda,Panos Roussos,Stella G. Giakoumaki,Katherine E. Burdick,Antony Payton,William Ollier,Michael A Horan,Matthew A. Scult,Dwight Dickinson,Richard E. Straub,Gary Donohoe,Derek W. Morris,Aiden Corvin,Michael Gill,Ahmad R. Hariri,Daniel R. Weinberger,Neil Pendleton,Nakao Iwata,Ariel Darvasi,Panos Bitsios,Dan Rujescu,Jari Lahti,Stephanie Le Hellard,Stephanie Le Hellard,Matthew C. Keller,Ole A. Andreassen,Ole A. Andreassen,Ian J. Deary,David C. Glahn,Anil K. Malhotra,Anil K. Malhotra +63 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between cognitive ability and variants associated with educational attainment in the Cognitive Genomics Consortium (COGENT) dataset and found that a SNP (rs1906252) located at chromosome 6q16.1, previously associated with years of schooling, was significantly associated with cognitive ability.
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