Is Intelligence Critical Thinking? Why We Need a New Definition of Intelligence

Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 293-310

  Halpern, Diane F ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410617880-27     Document Type: Chapter

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