The Wonderlic Personnel Test and elementary cognitive tasks as predictors of religious sectarianism, scriptural acceptance and religious questioning

Intelligence

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-237

  Bertsch, Sharon ^a   Pesta, Bryan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary cognitive tasks; Intelligence; Religious belief

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949182069     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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