Intelligence A term referring to a variety of mental capabilities, including the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience. Throughout the 20th century scientists have...

In everyday life people commonly refer to each other as being smart or slow. The perception that individuals differ widely in mental adeptness—in intelligence—long preceded development of the IQ test, and there is indeed a large...

The roles of genes and environment in the determination of intelligence have been controversial for more than 100 years. Studies of the question have often been marred by untested assumptions, poor design, and even racism, faults that more modern...

Participants completed measures of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), happiness, personality, and cognitive ability. Neuroticism was negatively related to happiness, whereas Extraversion and Openness to Experience were positively related to it. Cognitive ability was not related either to happiness or to trait EI. A...

The construct of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI or trait emotional self-efficacy) provides a comprehensive operationalization of emotion-related self-perceptions and dispositions. In the first part of the present study (N = 274, 92 males), we performed two joint factor analyses to determine the location...

The Senate has scrapped its bid to obtain the archive of daily intelligence briefings given to the president on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion.That request was among several controversial provisions dropped from an intelligence bill, leading to the measure's unanimous Senate passage Wednesday.The provision...

Rex Jung says researchers need to understand how the brain is put together to better understand how it unravels.To that end, Jung _ a research scientist at the Mind Research Network _ and psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California Irvine's School of...

Although some people believe otherwise, knowledge and intelligence are two different things. Intelligence involves the ability to use what knowledge one has in order to succeed. While it is important to gain knowledge, one must also possess the intelligence to do something with that knowledge.

Argues that intelligence is better than social intelligence.