We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Part IV - Applications of Intelligence Research
People differ in intelligence, and they also differ psychologically in many other important ways. Psychologists use the term “personality” to describe all relatively stable individual differences in behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition (McAdams & Pals, 2006). This chapter explores how intelligence is related to the rest of personality. Does knowing that someone is high or low in intelligence tell us anything else about that person? Can we make educated guesses about people’s personalities if we know their IQs? The short answer to this question is yes. We know a lot about how intelligence is associated with personality. It turns out that there are only a few other traits with which intelligence is strongly or even moderately associated, but there are a number of others with which it is at least weakly associated. Thus, although knowing someone’s IQ certainly does not allow us to be very confident about most other aspects of his or her personality, it does give us some clues about what might be likely.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
