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10 - Personality and Intelligence

from Part II - Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Julie Aitken Schermer  and
Donald H. Saklofske
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Summary

What are intelligent people like? The goal of this chapter is to outline the relationships between personality and intelligence. First the correlations between personality and intelligence at the phenotypic (observed) level will be described. This section will include personality trait and factor studies as well as recent research examining the relationship between general intelligence and the General Factor of Personality (GFP). Then we discuss how intelligence and personality may be jointly influenced developmentally and we conclude with a summary of behavior genetic studies which have examined the correlations between personality and intelligence at the genetic and environmental levels. This chapter concludes with a review of how each construct influences responses to the other measures, in particular, how personality is more differentiated (variable) at higher levels of intelligence and how intelligence score variability possibly differs for individuals with certain personality profiles.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 142 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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