Cultural Explorations of Human Intelligence Around the World

The goal of this article is to review cultural explorations of human intelligence around the globe. The article opens in the first part with a consideration of cultural studies that suggest that there is more to intelligence than IQ. It continues with the suggestion for what that more might be, namely, successful intelligence. The second part of the article thus describes the theory of successful intelligence, as well as data from various cultures that support the theory. The third part of the article considers cultural conceptions, of implicit theories of intelligence. It is concluded that cultural studies suggest that conventional notions of intelligence are narrow and limited

Teaching for Ethical Reasoning

This article argues for the importance of teaching for ethical reasoning.Much of our teaching is in vain if it is not applied to life in an ethical manner.The article reviews lapses in ethical reasoning and the great costs they have had for society.It proposes that ethical reasoning can be taught across the curriculum. It presents an eight-step model of ethical reasoning that can be applied to ethical challenges and illustrates its application. The eight steps range from recognizing there even is a situation to which to respond, to acting.It is argued that ethical behavior requires the completion of all eight steps.It further points to a source of frustration in the teaching and application of ethics: ethical drift.Finally it draws conclusions

The WICS Model of Organizational Leadership

Leadership is essential to the successful functioning of virtually any organization. Scholars of leadership attempt to understand what leads to success in leadership. Successful leaders need to do two things, among others. First, they need to have a story that followers can understand, accept, and, hopefully, support (see also Gardner, 1995). Second, they need to engage in complex processing that results in the creation, implementation, and monitoring of the story (see also Sternberg, 2003). The WICS model of leadership addresses both aspects of the leadership process. This model synthesizes many aspects of previous models. Thus it draws on much that is old, including trait, situational, behavioral, contingency, and transformational models. What do these models have to say about leadership? First, I present WICS. Then I relate it to past theories. Finally, I draw conclusions

Creatividad e inteligencia

A review of the most important theories and studies about intelligence and creativity. Both human abilities are considered from the different perspectives of relation, from inclusive ones to separate categories. The author shows us the variety and depth of present analysis that study creativity as a vital element to open new stances of cognitive world. The author exposes his essential triarchic intelligence theory.Revision de las mas importantes teorias y estudios sobre las relaciones entre inteligencia y creatividad. Ambas capacidades humanas se consideran desde muy diferentes relaciones, desde las inclusivas hasta las completamente independientes. El autor nos muestra la variedad y profundidad de los analisis actuales que estudian la creatividad como un rasgo vital para abrir las perspectivas sobre el mundo cognitivo. El autor expone su esencial teoria triarquica de la inteligencia

Academic Intelligence is not Enough! WICS: An Expanded Model for Effective Practice in School and in Later Life

Is there a psychological basis for teaching and learning in the context of a liberal education, and if so, what might such a psychological basis look like? Traditional teaching and assessment often emphasize remembering facts and, to some extent, analyzing ideas. Such skills are important, but they leave out of the aspects of thinking that are most important not only in liberal education, but in life, in general. In this article, I propose a theory called WICS, which is an acronym for wisdom, intelligence, and creativity, synthesized. The basic idea underlying this theory is that, through liberal education, students need to acquire creative skills and attitudes to generate new ideas about how to adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing world, analytical skills and attitudes to ascertain whether these new ideas are good ones, practical skills and attitudes to implement the new ideas and convince others of their value, and wisdom-based skills and attitudes in order to ensure that the new ideas help to achieve a common good through the infusion of positive ethical values

Optimal measurements for relative quantum information

We provide optimal measurement schemes for estimating relative parameters of the quantum state of a pair of spin systems. We prove that the optimal measurements are joint measurements on the pair of systems, meaning that they cannot be achieved by local operations and classical communication. We also demonstrate that in the limit where one of the spins becomes macroscopic, our results reproduce those that are obtained by treating that spin as a classical reference direction.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, published versio

TRACE GLUCOSE ELECTRODE FOR CLINICAL, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATIONS

International audienceA very sensitive method has been devised for the determination of glucose using electrochemical sensors. The differential device includes a glucose electrode, consisting of a platinum disk covered by a Beta-D-glucose oxidase collagen membrane, and a compensating electrode mounted with a non-enzymatic collagen membrane. Current outputs of both electrodes are substracted and differentiated giving steady-state and dynamic responses proportional to glucose concentration in the 100 nM - 2mM range. The glucose sensor has been successfully tested in clinical (human whole blood, plasma or serum and human seminal plasma), food (fruit, wines, preserved food) and environmental analysis (polluted river, whey) illustrating the high selectivity and versatility of the device