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| Title |
The Nature and Nurture of High IQ
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| Published in |
Psychological Science, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1177/0956797612473119 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Angela M. Brant, Yuko Munakata, Dorret I. Boomsma, John C. DeFries, Claire M. A. Haworth, Matthew C. Keller, Nicholas G. Martin, Matthew McGue, Stephen A. Petrill, Robert Plomin, Sally J. Wadsworth, Margaret J. Wright, John K. Hewitt |
| Abstract |
IQ predicts many measures of life success, as well as trajectories of brain development. Prolonged cortical thickening observed in individuals with high IQ might reflect an extended period of synaptogenesis and high environmental sensitivity or plasticity. We tested this hypothesis by examining the timing of changes in the magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on IQ as a function of IQ score. We found that individuals with high IQ show high environmental influence on IQ into adolescence (resembling younger children), whereas individuals with low IQ show high heritability of IQ in adolescence (resembling adults), a pattern consistent with an extended sensitive period for intellectual development in more-intelligent individuals. The pattern held across a cross-sectional sample of almost 11,000 twin pairs and a longitudinal sample of twins, biological siblings, and adoptive siblings. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 74 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 8% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Peru | 1 | 1% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 44 | 59% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 57 | 77% |
| Scientists | 11 | 15% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 216 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 196 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 36 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 10% |
| Professor | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 55 | 25% |
| Unknown | 27 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 111 | 51% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 14% |
| Unknown | 33 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 122. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2024.
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#347,331
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Outputs from Psychological Science
#807
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#2,344
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Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#21
of 85 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,663,438 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,324 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 85.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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