The Flynn effect in Korea: Large gains

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-151

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a   Cho, Sun Hee ^b   Murphy, Raegan ^c   Lee, Kun Ho ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flynn Effect; Intelligence; IQ tests; Secular score gains; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860667875     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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