Intelligence and Personality
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OVERVIEW For more than half a century now psychologists have been exploring the avenues linking human intelligence to a wide array of personality traits in the hope of unravelling the mutual impact of intelligence and personality in the course of development and day-to-day behavior. Although these constructs are frequently kept apart, the artificiality of the distinction has been recognized by many of the key figures of differential psychology, including Binet, Terman, Thorndike, and Thurstone. Most notably, David Wechsler (1950) viewed intelligence as a manifestation of personality as a whole and argued that certain affective and motivational factors (interest, volition, etc.) are integral components of the construct of intelligence. According to Wechsler, because conative and affective factors function in concert with intelligence in determining intellectual performance, what is needed are not tests from which personality factors have been eliminated but tests in which these nonintellective factors are clearly present and objectively appraisable. Today, it is commonly agreed that some of the most interesting work in individual differences is being done at the interface of personality and intelligence (Snow, 1995). Because intelligence is often construed as the cognitive part of the construct of personality, the two constructs are in effect mutually intertwined (Brody, 1972). This chapter sets out to survey some of the past and present attempts at shedding light on the nexus…
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Results have been inconsistent with respect to attentional selectivity tasks, reaction-time tasks, and general intelligence tests.
“Results have been inconsistent with respect to attentional selectivity tasks, reaction-time tasks, and general intelligence tests (Zeidner & Matthews, 2000).”
From Extraversion and intelligence: A meta-analytic investigation (2005) · cites this paper as Zeidner & Matthews, 2000
The relationship between extraversion and intelligence may be importantly moderated by the measures used to assess each construct.
“Thus, the relationship between extraversion and intelligence may be importantly moderated by the measures used to assess each construct (Roberts, 2002; Zeidner & Matthews, 2000).”
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All of the estimated effect sizes were close to zero.
“Consistent with past research (Ackerman and Heggestad, 1997; Zeidner and Matthews, 2000; Zeidner, 1995), all of the estimated effect sizes were close to zero.”
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Past research has demonstrated the complicated nature of the relationship between different measures of extraversion and different measures of intelligence.
“Past research has demonstrated the complicated nature of the relationship between different measures of extraversion and different measures of intelligence (Roberts, 2002; Zeidner & Matthews, 2000; Zeidner, 1995).”
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- Authors
- Zeidner, M., & Matthews, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Haifa (IL)
- University of Dundee (GB)
- ORCID
- Matthews, Gerald
- Venue
- Handbook of Intelligence
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2000-03-13
- Pages
- 581-610
- OpenAlex
- W2243055478
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 46.10
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- intelligence, personality, individual differences, conative factors, emotional factors, motivational factors, differential psychology
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