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Wat maakt een briljante schaker?
Metro Netherlands: Wat onderscheidt een goede van een briljante schaker? Moet je aanleg hebben of is het een kwestie van oefenen? Als we de bestseller auteur Malcolm Gladwell moeten geloven hoef je geen geniaal brein
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Curiosity Doesn’t Kill The Student
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it’s good for the student. In fact, personality traits like curiosity seem to be as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in school.
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It pays to forget, new study claims
Toronto Sun: Just forget it. New research published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science claims that if you forget pointless facts you have a better memory for important things. Benjamin Storm, an assistant
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Deliberate Practice: Necessary But Not Sufficient
Psychological scientist Guillermo Campitelli is a good chess player, but not a great one. “I’m not as good as I wanted,” he says. He had an international rating but not any of the titles that
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Psychologists Defend The Importance Of General Abilities
“What makes a great violinist, physicist, or crossword puzzle solver? Are experts born or made? The question has intrigued psychologists since psychology was born—and the rest of us, too, who may secretly fantasize playing duets
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IQ Isn’t Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teens
NPR: For as long as there’s been an IQ test, there’s been controversy over what it measures. Do IQ scores capture a person’s intellectual capacity, which supposedly remains stable over time? Or is the Intelligent
