Who are the "Clever Sillies"? The intelligence, personality, and motives of clever silly originators and those who follow them

Intelligence

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-65

  Dutton, Edward ^a   van der Linden, Dimitri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clever sillies; Intelligence; Personality; Scientific artistic geniuses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921059032     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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