Immigrant-majority group differences in cognitive performance: Jensen effects, cultural effects, or both?

Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 443-459

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a   van der Flier, Henk ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural bias effect; Jensen effects; Language bias effect

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037412143     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(03)00027-8     Document Type: Article

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