Immigrant-majority group differences on work-related measures: The case for cognitive complexity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1213-1221

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

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional tests; Cognitive complexity; Group differences; Immigrants; Intelligence; Perceptual motor tests; Spearman's hypothesis; Training outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444265953     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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