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Giorgio Bertini
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Category Archives: Intelligence
Sociality and the Evolution of Intelligence
Human intelligence appears to be unique in the biological world, but how did it arise? Its very existence raises two fascinating and difficult questions. What evolutionary factors have given rise to human intelligence? How great is the discontinuity between the … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Evolution, Intelligence
Tagged cognition, evolution, intelligence
The Language Instinct – The New Science of Language and Mind
Language is so tightly woven into human experience that it is scarcely possible to imagine life without it. Chances are that if you find two or more people together anywhere on earth, they will soon be exchanging words. When there … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Culture, Dialogue, Humans, Instinct, Intelligence, Interaction, Language, Mind
Tagged conversations, culture, dialogue, humans, instinct, intelligence, interaction, language, mind
Chess Grandmastery: Nature, Gender and Genius
In the late 1960s, a Hungarian teacher named László Polgár resolved to try an educational experiment. The author of a brassy parenting book called Bring Up Genius!, he sought to prove that, as one of his kids later put it, … Continue reading
Posted in Intellect, Intelligence, Women
Tagged intellect, intelligence, women
The Power of Social Conversation Analysis
Every day there are millions of conversations happening in social media — including ones about your organization. In order to capitalize on the sheer amount of social buzz, you need to understand what’s resonating in regards to your organization. An … Continue reading
The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System Model for Organizations
This paper proposes a new model for organizations that live in a dynamic, complex environment. The model proposes to represent a new theory of the organization, one that starts with the fact that organizations are not metaphors of living systems … Continue reading
The Originality of Systems Intelligence
We have proposed that the work on emotional, social and multiple intelligence has missed a key form of human intelligence that we have called “systems intelligence.” By “systems intelligence” we mean “intelligent behavior in the context of complex systems involving … Continue reading
The Intelligence of Complexity
To better appreciate the contribution of the ‘paradigm of complexity’ in Educational sciences, this paper proposes a framework discussing its cultural and historical roots. First, it focuses on Giambattista Vico’s critique of René Descartes’ method, contrasting Cartesian’s principles (evidence, disjunction, linear causality and … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Intelligence
Tagged complexity, intelligence
IQs Changes Over Time
We’re getting more stupid. That’s one point made in a recent article in the New Scientist, reporting on a gradual decline in IQs in developed countries such as the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. Such research feeds into a long-held … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, IQ
Tagged intelligence, IQ
Global Leadership Success through Emotional and Cultural Intelligences
Culturally attuned and emotionally sensitive global leaders need to be developed: leaders who can respond to the particular foreign environments of different countries and different interpersonal work situations. Two emerging constructs are especially relevant to the development of successful global … Continue reading
Intelligence, Creativity, and Cognitive Control
Intelligence and creativity are known to be correlated constructs suggesting that they share a common cognitive basis. The present study assessed three specific executive abilities – updating, shifting, and inhibition – and examined their common and differential relations to fluid … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Creativity, Intelligence
Tagged cognition, creativity, intelligence
