Clever sillies: Why high IQ people tend to be deficient in common sense

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 867-870

  Charlton, Bruce G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70449726534     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.016     Document Type: Editorial

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