Today it’s great to have Robert Sternberg on the podcast. Robert is a psychology professor at Cornell University. Among his major contributions to psychology are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories relating to creativity, thinking styles, love, and hate. A Review of General Psychology survey ranked Sternberg as the 60th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He’s authored and co-authored over 1,500 publications including articles, book chapters, and books. Topics · Robert’s childhood experience with IQ tests · Robert’s passion for psychometrics · Development of the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence · How the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence relates to Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences · The world’s fixation on general intelligence · How society and the environment create correlations with intelligence · Expanding college admissions’ metrics of intelligence · Is psychological testing still valuable today? · Real world problems VS academic problems · Rethinking adaptive intelligence as a species · Application of intelligence to transcend hate Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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