Intelligence in Jordan: Norms for the Advanced Progressive Matrices

Mankind Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 114-119

  Lynn, Richard ^a   Abdel Khalek, Ahmed M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Jordan; Progressive Matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 72349095426     PISSN: 00252344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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