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The variable nature of cognitive control: a dual mechanisms framework Todd S. Braver A core component of cognitive control – the ability to regulate thoughts and actions in accordance with internally represented behavioral goals – might be its intrinsic variability. In this article, I describe the dual mechanisms of control (DMC) framework, which postulates that […]

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri Abstract Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability […]

The Mere Anticipation of an Interaction with a Woman Can Impair Men’s Cognitive Performance Sanne Nauts • Martin Metzmacher • Thijs Verwijmeren • Vera Rommeswinkel • Johan C. Karremans Abstract Recent research suggests that heterosexual men’s (but not heterosexual women’s) cognitive performance is impaired after an interaction with someone of the opposite sex (Karremans et […]

TITLE: What No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: The Roles of IQ and Self-Control in Predicting Standardized Achievement Test Scores and Report Card Grades AUTHORS: Angela L. Duckworth, Patrick D. Quinn, Eli Tsukayama ABSTRACT The increasing prominence of standardized testing to assess student learning motivated the current investigation. We propose that standardized achievement test scores […]

TITLE: Role of test motivation in intelligence testing AUTHORS: Angela Lee Duckwortha,1, Patrick D. Quinnb, Donald R. Lynamc, Rolf Loeberd, and Magda Stouthamer-Loeberd ABSTRACT Intelligence tests are widely assumed to measure maximal intellectual performance, and predictive associations between intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and later-life outcomes are typically interpreted as unbiased estimates of the effect of […]