Secular trends in cognitive test performance: Swedish conscript data 1970-1993

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-24

  Rönnlund, Michael ^a   Carlstedt, Berit ^b   Blomstedt, Yulia ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c   Weinehall, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b National Defense College   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort effects; Flynn effects; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869194061     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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