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 Validity of Conscientiousness for Predicting Job Performance: A meta-analytic test of two hypotheses
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which the structural characteristics and cognitive ability requirements of jobs influence the role of conscientiousness in predicting performance, and found that conscientiousness is a stronger predictor of performance in jobs that are highly routinized, and a weaker predictor in jobs with high levels of cognitive ability requirement.
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Identifying g: A review of current factor analytic practices in the science of mental abilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed articles reporting factor analyses of cognitive ability tests administered to adult samples over a 12-year period and found that, in aggregate, the science of mental abilities seems to be doing well with respect to the issues of sample size, number of indicators, and breadth of indicators.
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There is more to fluid intelligence than working memory capacity and executive function
TL;DR: It is argued that any satisfactory neurobiological explanation of fluid intelligence needs to include abstraction as an important computational component of brain processing.
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Fluid intelligence and empathy in association with personality disorder trait-scores: exploring the link
Michael Pascal Hengartner,Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross,Stephanie Rodgers,Mario Müller,Helene Haker,Wulf Rössler +5 more
TL;DR: The total PD trait-score was significantly associated with low scores on DSCT and IRI empathic concern and high scores on IRI personal distress, which indicates a dose–response relationship in those measures, and further research is needed that examines the association between cognitive empathy and personality pathology.
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Intelligence as a Developing Function: A Neuroconstructivist Approach
TL;DR: This paper describes how a neuroconstructivist approach better explains why intelligence can rise or fall over development, as a result of a fluctuating interaction between the developing system itself and the environmental factors involved at different times across ontogenesis.
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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