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| Title |
On the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence and Specific Cognitive Abilities
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Psychological Science, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1177/0956797613493292 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kees-Jan Kan, Jelte M. Wicherts, Conor V. Dolan, Han L. J. van der Maas |
| Abstract |
To further knowledge concerning the nature and nurture of intelligence, we scrutinized how heritability coefficients vary across specific cognitive abilities both theoretically and empirically. Data from 23 twin studies (combined N = 7,852) showed that (a) in adult samples, culture-loaded subtests tend to demonstrate greater heritability coefficients than do culture-reduced subtests; and (b) in samples of both adults and children, a subtest's proportion of variance shared with general intelligence is a function of its cultural load. These findings require an explanation because they do not follow from mainstream theories of intelligence. The findings are consistent with our hypothesis that heritability coefficients differ across cognitive abilities as a result of differences in the contribution of genotype-environment covariance. The counterintuitive finding that the most heritable abilities are the most culture-dependent abilities sheds a new light on the long-standing nature-nurture debate of intelligence. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 65 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 | 8 | 12% |
| Netherlands | 8 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 2% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 36 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 49 | 75% |
| Scientists | 14 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 264 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 249 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 54 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 13% |
| Researcher | 34 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 10% |
| Other | 15 | 6% |
| Other | 58 | 22% |
| Unknown | 42 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 118 | 45% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 12 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 4% |
| Other | 37 | 14% |
| Unknown | 56 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 83. 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 20 April 2024.
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#523,979
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#1,089
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#4,153
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#49
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Altmetric has tracked 25,782,229 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,330 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 86.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its peers.
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