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Personality, cognitive ability, and academic performance: Differential associations across school subjects and school tracks.

Journal of Personality, 2020
AIM Personality traits and cognitive ability are well-established predictors of academic performance. Yet, how consistent and generalizable are the associations between personality, cognitive ability, and performance?
N. D. Brandt, Clemens M. Lechner, Julia Tetzner, Beatrice Rammstedt   +3 more
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Cognitive Ability

Behavioral Finance, 2019
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is known for his pithy insights. He once observed that in finance “you don’t need to be a rocket scientist.
H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, John R. Nofsinger   +2 more
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Cognitive Ability

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2020
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Cognitive Abilities of Musicians

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2011
Playing music may involve different cognitive domains, but previous studies of musicians and patients with brain lesions have reported inconsistent associations between music performances and other cognitive functions. Fine musical performance may be associated with high executive and control functions.
Giovagnoli A. R., RAGLIO, Alfredo
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Cognitive ability, cognitive self-awareness, and school performance: From childhood to adolescence

, 2020
This study explored relations between academic performance, cognition, cognitive self-evaluation and self-representation. We examined 408 participants, from 10 to 16 years, by a cognitive battery addressed to several reasoning domains (mathematical ...
A. Demetriou, Smaragda Kazi, N. Makris, G. Spanoudis   +3 more
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Critical thinking predicts academic performance beyond general cognitive ability: Evidence from adults and children

, 2020
The present research investigated whether critical thinking predicts academic performance above and beyond general cognitive ability. Both critical thinking (CT) skills and dispositions were investigated in order to obtain a complete picture of CT and ...
Xuezhu Ren, Yan Tong, Peng Peng, Tengfei Wang   +3 more
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The relationship between Big-5 personality traits and cognitive ability in older adults – a review

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2015
R. Curtis, T. Windsor, A. Soubelet
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Schooling, cognitive ability and health [PDF]

Health Economics, 2005
A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same increase in health as two years of schooling and that ...
M. Christopher Auld, Nirmal Sidhu
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Cognitive Abilities and Lipomyelomeningocele

Psychological Reports, 1993
Ten children with lipomyelomeningocele were evaluated with the WISC—R, the Wide Range Achievement Test—Revised, the Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration, and the Child Behavior Checklist. These children were consecutive referrals to a birth defects clinic.
W N, Friedrich, D B, Shurtleff, J, Shaffer   +2 more
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Cognitive Abilities

2012
AbstractThis chapter describes measures of cognitive ability (general mental ability and specific abilities) and examines their usefulness for personnel selection. An overview of definitional and theoretical issues as they apply to use of such measures in personnel decision making is provided first. Then, issues of reliability of measures are discussed,
Deniz S. Ones, Stephan Dilchert, Chockalingam Viswesvaran   +2 more
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