Cross-cultural differences in cognitive performance and spearman's hypothesis: G or c?

Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-29

  Helms Lorenz, Michelle ^a   Van De Vijver, Fons J R ^a   Poortinga, Ype H ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

"g"; Cognitive complexity; Cultural complexity; Intelligence; Minority groups; Spearman's hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINORITY GROUP; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; STUDENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 0037210205     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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