How Intelligence Can Be a Solution to Consequential World Problems

• Altri autori: Sternberg, Robert J. (Redattore), Conway, Andrew (Redattore), Halpern, Diane (Redattore)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Soggetti: Humanities; Social interaction; intelligence; IQ; giftedness; transactional giftedness; transformational giftedness; critical thinking; real-world problems; innovation; talent selection and development; gifted education; social returns; cognitive aptitudes and creativity; grand societal challenges; Sustainable Development Goals; complex problems; consequential world problems; mental tests; cognitive ageing; cognitive epidemiology; mortality; cognitive development; wisdom; education; conflict resolution; problem-solving; decision making; history-wars; Wechsler scales; WAIS-IV; federal judges; Supreme Court; fluid reasoning; processing speed; crystallized knowledge; working memory; aging-IQ research; computerized adaptive testing; test construction; collective intelligence; metacognition; wellbeing; inequity; social issues; functional literacy; job complexity; nonadherence to treatment; noncommunicable disease; diabetes; diabetes self-management; behavioral risk factors; global burden of disease; epidemiological transition; social movements; theory of social change, cultural evolution, and human development; social intelligence; practical intelligence; abstract intelligence; COVID-19; cultural evolution; adaptive intelligence; George Floyd protests; higher-order thinking; real-world environments; infectious diseases
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Intelligence research is mainly concerned with basic science questions; what is the psychometric structure of intelligence? What are the cognitive bases of intelligence? What are the brain-based correlates of intelligence? What does intelligence predict? Such research is needed, but there are also p...