Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty The relationship between intelligence and creativity remains controversial. The present re- search explored this issue by studying the role of fluid intelligence (Gf) in the generation of creative metaphors. Participants (n=132 young adults) completed six nonverbal tests of […]

Cognitive ability, self-assessed intelligence and personality: Common genetic but independent environmental aetiologies Denis Bratko, Ana Butkovic, Tena Vukasovic, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Sophie von Stumm Self-perceived abilities (SPA), which play an important role in academic achievement, have been recently reported to be fully attributable to genetic and non-shared environmental influ- ences. To replicate and extend this finding, […]

Trends in intelligence research Robert J. Sternberg and Scott Barry Kaufman ► Intelligence research has been of several kinds, three of which are (a) finding new correlates of g and (b) understanding better the nature of g, (c) expanding our conceptions of intelligence beyond g. ► In the Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, authors who have […]

Links Between Attention, Performance Pressure, and Movement in Skilled Motor Action     Rob Gray     The attentional focus adopted during the execution of a skilled motor action can have a profound effect on performance outcomes. Furthermore, it has been proposed that an “inward” shift in the focus of attention may be one of […]

Creative reasoning across developmental levels: Convergence and divergence in problem creation  Saskia Jaarsveld, Thomas Lachmann, Cees van Leeuwen We recently proposed the Creative Reasoning Test (CRT), a test for reasoning in ill-defined problem spaces. The test asks children who first performed the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) to next generate an SPM-style test item themselves. […]

STUDY ALERT: The Small World of Psychopathology Denny Borsboom, Angelique O. J. Cramer, Verena D. Schmittmann, Sacha Epskamp, Lourens J. Waldorp Abstract Background: Mental disorders are highly comorbid: people having one disorder are likely to have another as well. We explain empirical comorbidity patterns based on a network model of psychiatric symptoms, derived from an […]

“It’s ok — Not everyone can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students Aneeta Rattan, Catherine Good, Carol S. Dweck Can comforting struggling students demotivate them and potentially decrease the pool of students pursuing math- related subjects? In Studies 1–3, instructors holding an entity (fixed) theory of math intelligence […]

The Road Not Taken: Creative Solutions Require Avoidance of High-Frequency Responses Nitin Gupta, Yoonhee Jang, Sara C. Mednick, and David E. Huber To investigate individual differences in creativity as measured with a complex problem-solving task, we developed a computational model of the remote associates test (RAT). For 50 years, the RAT has been used to […]

Intelligence and the brain: A model-based approach Rogier A. Kievit, Hilko van Rooijen, Jelte M. Wicherts, Lourens J. Waldorp, Kees-Jan Kan, H. Steven Scholte, and Denny Borsboom Various biological correlates of general intelligence (g) have been reported. Despite this, however, the relationship between neurological measurements and g is not fully clear. We use structural equation […]

Sex Differences in the Brain: The Not So Inconvenient Truth Margaret M. McCarthy, Arthur P. Arnold, Gregory F. Ball, Jeffrey D. Blaustein, and Geert. J. De Vries The arguments for studying sex differences in the brain are as follows. (1) There is compelling evidence of pervasive and robust differences between males and females in both […]