General Intelligence as a Domain-Specific Adaptation

Psychological Review

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 512-523

  Kanazawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 1942475394     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.2.512     Document Type: Review

References (65)

1. Barash, D. P. (1982). Soclobiology and behavior (2nd ed.). New York: Elsevier.
2. Barkow, J. H., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (Eds.). (1992). The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
4. Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"? Cognition, 21, 37-46.
5. Baum, W. M. (1994). Understanding behaviorism: Science, behavior, and culture. New York: HarperCollins.
6. Betzig, L. L. (1986). Despotism and differential reproduction: A Darwinian view of history. New York: Aldine.
7. Betzig, L. (1993). Sex, succession, and stratification in the first six civilizations: How powerful men reproduced, passed power on to their sons, and used power to defend their wealth, women, and children. In L. Ellis (Ed.), Social stratification and socioeconomic inequality. Vol. I: A comparative biosocial analysis (pp. 37-74). Westport, CT: Praeger.
8. Bowman, D. B., Markham, P. M., & Roberts, R. D. (2002). Expanding the frontier of human cognitive abilities: So much more than (plain) g! Learning and Individual Differences, 13, 127-158.
9. Buss, D. M. (1994). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. New York: BasicBooks.
10. Buss, D. M., Haselton, M. G., Shackelford, T. K., Bleske, A. L., & Wakefield, J. C. (1998). Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. American Psychologist. 53, 533-548.
11. Byrne, R. (1995). The thinking ape: Evolutionary origins of intelligence. Oxford. England: Oxford University Press.
12. Byrne, R. W. (2002). The primate origins of human intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The evolution of intelligence (pp. 79-95). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. Byrne, R. W., & Whiten, A. (1988). Machiavellian intelligence: Social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
14. Chiappe, D., & MacDonald, K. (2003). The evolution of domain-general mechanisms in intelligence and learning. Unpublished manuscript, California State University - Long Beach.
15. Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31, 187-276.
16. Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2002). Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind. In R. J. Sternberg & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The evolution of intelligence (pp. 145-198). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
17. Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1987). The Darwinian psychology of discriminative parental solicitude. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 35, 91-144.
18. Davies, M., Stankov, L., & Roberts, R. D. (1998). Emotional intelligence: In search of an elusive construct. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 989-1015.
19. Derksen, J., Kramer, I., & Katzko, M. (2002). Does a self-report measure for emotional intelligence assess something different than general intelligence? Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 37-48.
20. DeShon, R. P., Smith, M. R., Chan, D., & Schmitt, N. (1998). Can racial differences in cognitive test performance be reduced by presenting problems in a social context? Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 438-451.
21. de Waal, F. B. M. (1982). Chimpanzee politics: Power and sex among apes. London: Jonathan Cape.
22. Dunbar, R. I. M. (1996). Determinants of group size in primates: A general model. In W. G. Runciman, J. Maynard Smith, & R. I. M. Dunbar (Eds.), Evolution of social behaviour in primates and man (pp. 33-57). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
23. Ford, M. E., & Tisak, M. S. (1983). A further search for social intelligence. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 196-206.
24. Fox, S., & Spector, P. E. (2000). Relations of emotional intelligence, practical intelligence, general intelligence, and trait affectivity with interview outcomes: It's not all just "G." Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 203-220.
25. Fryer, D. (1922). Occupational-intelligence standards. School and Society, 16, 273-277.
26. Geary, D. C. (2002). Principles of evolutionary educational psychology. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 317-345.
27. Geary, D. C., & Huffman, K. J. (2002). Brain and cognitive evolution: Forms of modularity and functions of mind. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 667-698.
28. Gordon, R. A. (1997). Everyday life as an intelligence test: Effects of intelligence and intelligence contexts. Intelligence, 24, 203-320.
29. Gottfredson, L. S. (1997). Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life. Intelligence, 24, 79-132.
30. Gould, S. J. (1991). Exaptation: A crucial tool for evolutionary psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 46, 43-65.
31. Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behavior. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-52.
32. Harrell, T. W., & Harrell, M. S. (1945). Army general classification test scores for civilian occupations. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 5, 229-239.
33. Harris, S., Handleman, J. S., & Burton, J. L. (1990). The Stanford Binet profiles of young children with autism. Special Services in the Schools, 6, 35-143.
34. Herrnstein, R. J., & Murray, C. (1994). The bell curve: Intelligence and class structure in American life. New York: Free Press.
35. Jencks, C. (1972). Inequality: A reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America. New York: BasicBooks.
36. Jensen, A. R. (1980). Bias in mental testing. New York: Free Press.
37. Jensen, A. R. (1998). The g factor: The science of mental ability. Westport, CT: Praeger.
38. Jensen, A. R., & Sinha, S. N. (1993). Physical correlates of human intelligence. In P. A. Vernon (Ed.), Biological approaches to the study of human intelligence (pp. 139-242). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
39. Jerisen, H. J. (1985). Animal intelligence as encephalization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 308, 21-35.
40. Kanazawa, S. (2001). De gustibus est disputandum. Social Forces, 79, 1131-1163.
41. Kanazawa, S. (2002). Bowling with our imaginary friends. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 167-171.
42. Kanazawa, S. (2003). Can evolutionary psychology explain reproductive behavior in the contemporary United States? Sociological Quarterly, 44, 291-302.
43. Kanazawa, S. (2004). The savanna principle. Managerial and Decision Economics, 25, 41-54.
44. Locurto, C. (1997). On the comparative generality of g. Advances in Cognition and Educational Practice, 4, 79-100.
45. Lynn, R., & Vanhanen, T. (2002). IQ and the wealth of nations. Westport, CT: Praeger.
46. Marlowe, H. A., Jr. (1986). Social intelligence: Evidence for multidimensionality and construct independence. Journal of Educational Psychology, 78, 52-58.
47. Marlowe, H. A., & Bedell, J. R. (1982). Social intelligence: Further evidence for the independence of the construct. Psychological Reports, 51, 461-462.
48. Miller, G. (2000). How to keep our metatheories adaptive: Beyond Cosmides, Tooby, and Lakatos. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 42-46.
49. Orians, G. H., & Heerwagen, J. H. (1992). Evolved responses to landscapes. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 555-579). New York: Oxford University Press.
50. Pérusse, D. (1993). Cultural and reproductive success in industrial societies: Testing the relationship at the proximate and ultimate levels. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 267-322.
51. Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct. New York: Morrow.
52. Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9, 557-568.
53. Salovey, P., Mayer, J. D., Goldman, S. L., Turvey, C., & Palfai, T. P. (1995). Emotional attention, clarity, and repair: Exploring emotional intelligence using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. In J. Pennebaker (Ed.), Emotion, disclosure, and health (pp. 125-154). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
54. Scarr, S. (1995). Psychology will be truly evolutionary when behavior genetics is included. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 68-71.
55. Scheuffgen, K., Happé, F., Anderson, M., & Frith, U. (2000). High "intelligence," low "IQ"? Speed of processing and measured IQ in children with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 83-90.
56. Segal, N. L., & MacDonald, K. B. (1998). Behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology: Unified perspective on personality research. Human Biology, 70, 159-184.
57. Silverman, I., Choi, J., Mackewn, A., Fisher, M., Moro, J., & Olshansky, E. (2000). Evolved mechanisms underlying wayfinding: Further studies on the hunter-gatherer theory of spatial sex differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 201-213.
58. Silverman, I., & Eals, M. (1992). Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 533-549). New York: Oxford University Press.
59. Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (2000). Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 645-726.
60. Thorndike, E. L. (1911). Animal intelligence: Experimental studies. New York: Macmillan.
61. Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man 1871-1971 (pp. 136-179). Chicago: Aldine.
62. Vining, D. R., Jr. (1986). Social versus reproductive success: The central theoretical problem of human sociobiology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 167-216.
63. Weiss, A., Morales, A., & Jacobs, W. J. (2003). Place learning in virtual space IV: Spatial navigation and general intelligence appear independent. Unpublished manuscript, University of Arizona.
64. Yamagishi, T., Tanida, S., Mashima, R., Shimoma, E., & Kanazawa, S. (2003). You can judge a book by its cover: Evidence that cheaters may look different from cooperators. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 290-301.
65. Zentall, T. R. (2000). Animal intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of intelligence (pp. 197-215). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.