General intelligence predicts reasoning ability even for evolutionarily familiar content

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 311-322

  Kaufman, Scott Barry ^a   DeYoung, Colin G ^b   Reis, Deidre L ^c,d   Gray, Jeremy R ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; Evolutionary psychology; G factor; Intelligence; Wason Card Selection Task

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052038562     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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