Was Einstein a genius because he inherited good genes? That is just one of the questions some new research may be able to determine. According to the article A Genetic Code for Genius in the Wall Street Journal, “In China, a research project aims to find the...
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IQ and the Flynn Affect
Professor James Flynn is a New Zealand researcher who is known for studying intelligence. The Flynn Affect refers to, “the substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present...
Are Women Making Teams Smarter?
Harvard Business Review recently published an article about how having women on a team makes the team smarter. Although they didn’t find a correlation between the collective intelligence of the group and the IQ of individuals within that group, they did find that if...
Important Facts about IQ Tests
In the old Bob Newhart Show where Newhart plays a psychologist, there is a great episode where his wife Emily takes an intelligence test and discovers she is smart enough to be included in Mensa Society. Newhart’s score was not nearly as high as his wife’s which...
Young Boy Has Higher IQ Than Einstein
The video below of young Jake Barnett shows his amazing brain and abilities at the young age of 12. With the recent movie release of Limitless with Bradley Cooper, there is a lot of focus on the brain and its potential. At the age of 3, young Jake was diagnosed with...
Controlling Emotions at Work: Part of Core Employment Skills?
Lesley Wright’s recent article in the Arizona Republic offered some insight into a new book by author and ASU professor Vincent Waldron. Waldron’s book, titled, “Communicating Emotion at Work”, due later this year, will include information from his 20 years of...
Are Humans Getting Dumber as Our Brains are Shrinking?
via google.com Did you know that our brains are actually shrinking? NPR.org reported, “Cro-Magnon man, who lived in Europe 20,000 to 30,000 years ago, had the biggest brains of any human species. In comparison, today's human brain is about 10 percent smaller.” The...
How to Get a Job: Why Employers Value Emotional Intelligence
Check out why it is so important to understand how your emotional intelligence may impact your ability to get a job. If you are interested in reading the book by Daniel Goleman that I refer to here, it is called Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than...
Facial Recognition and Emotional Intelligence
I have quite a few of my doctoral students who are working on their dissertation on emotional intelligence. In our book, It's Not You It's Your Personality, Toni Rothpletz and I include a chapter about emotional intelligence. When I wrote my dissertation on the...
You May Be Looking For A Job But Your Emotional Intelligence May Be What Needs Work
The job market is over-crowded with applicants all applying for the few coveted jobs. What makes one person stand out in the crowd over another? One thing may be their emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI) has become a buzz word in the last 10-15...
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