Emerging Role of Intelligence in the World of the Future / edited by Robert J. Sternberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sternberg, Robert J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human information processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 126 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : MDPI, 2018.

Summary:

During the 20th century, the world experienced an unprecedented rise in people's cognitive abilities. IQs increased 30 points (with the average IQ remaining 100 only because publishers reset the "average" on their tests). Yet, society's ability to confront serious problems in the world seems as challenged as ever. Problems such as air pollution, global climate change, increasing disparity of incomes, disputes that never seem to move toward resolution (such as between the Israelis and Palestinians), and increasing antibiotic resistance-all of these and many other problems seem to defy us, despite our elevated IQs. Why are there so many serious problems still confronting the world? Why is IQ insufficient for solving serious problems where differences in people's interests are at stake? How can intelligence, broadly defined, help us to create a better world and solve the seemingly intractable problems the world confronts? The essays in this book address these questions and provide some directions for answers.

Contents:

Why Real-World Problems Go Unresolved and What We Can Do about It: Inferences from a Limited-Resource Model of Successful Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg

Individual Mental Abiities vs. the World's Problems /Jonathan Baron

The Strengths of Wisdom Provide Unique Contributions to Improved Leadership, Sustainability, Inequality, Gross National Happiness, and Civic Discourse in the Face of Contemporary World Problems / Igor Grossmann and Justin P. Brienza

Creativity as a Stepping Stone toward a Brighter Future / James Kaufman

Inequality, Education, Workforce Preparedness, and Complex Problem Solving / Patrick C. Kyllonen

When Irrational Biases Are Smart: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory of Complex Decision Making / Valerie Reyna

Intellectual Brilliance and Presidential Performance: Why Pure Intelligence (or Openness) Doesn't Suffice / Dean Keith Simonton

How to Think Rationally about World Problems / Keith E. Stanovich

Speculations on the Role of Successful Intelligence in Solving Contemporary World Problems / Robert J. Sternberg.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783038972631

3038972630

OCLC:

1154292411

Publisher Number:

10.3390/books978-3-03897-263-1