Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

作者: Ian J. Deary

Series: Very Short Introductions

Paperback: 184頁

出版社: Oxford University Press (2020年3月26日)

語種: 英語

ISBN: 9780198796206                                                   

產品尺寸及重量: 182 x 123 x 10 (mm) | 142g

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

有些人比別人聰明。這種日常觀察是學術領域的一個主題，單經常被描述為混亂，有爭議的，而事實上，智力領域擁有一些心理學上最好的重複發現。

這本書介紹了心理學家發現的關於人們在思維能力上如何以及為什麼會有不同的發現。根據大規模的數據，作者迪瑞思考了不同類型的智力，以及智力是如何隨着年齡變化的。在此過程中，他解決了一些關於智力的最棘手的問題，比如大腦越大是否越聰明，以及基因和環境如何影響人們的智力差異。他還研究了認知流行病學這一新領域，該領域將智力與更好的健康、更少的疾病和更長的壽命聯繫起來，並詢問智力是否正在提高。在這個新版本中，迪瑞也提到了有爭議的問題，即男人和女人在智力上是否不同。他提供了一個清晰的數據描述，我們可以用來回答這些甚至更多的問題。

關於牛津通識系列：對各個學科領域進行了簡要的介紹。這些口袋般大小的書是快速學習新學科的*工具。專家作者結合事實，分析，觀點，新想法和熱情，使有趣和具有挑戰性的話題可讀性提高。

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controversial, when in fact, the field of intelligence holds some of psychology's best-replicated findings.

This Very Short Introduction describes what psychologists have discovered about how and why people differ in their thinking powers. Drawing on large scale data Ian Deary considers how many types of intelligence there are, and how intelligence changes with age. Along the way he tackles some of the most burning questions surrounding intelligence, such as whether larger brains are cleverer, and how genes and environments contribute to people's intelligence differences. He also considers the new field of cognitive epidemiology, which draws links between intelligence and better health, less illness, and longer life, and asks whether intelligence is increasing. In this new edition Deary also addresses the controversial question of whether men and women differ in intelligence. Throughout he provides a clear de*ion of the data we can use to answer these questions and more.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

作者簡介

伊恩·j·迪瑞(Ian J. Deary)是愛丁堡大學差異心理學教授。在轉入學術心理學之前，他在倫敦和愛丁堡從事精神病學工作，在那裏他的主要研究興趣包括人類的心智能力、衰老和醫療條件對心智技能的影響，以及認知能力對人們生活的影響。他是洛錫安出生隊列研究的主任，也是英國科學院、愛丁堡皇家學會、醫學科學院、皇家精神科醫學院和愛丁堡皇家醫師學院的當選院士。他寫了好幾本書，包括《人類智力的俯視:從心理測量學到大腦》(OUP, 2000)，並因其對人類智力和個性的研究而獲得多項國際獎項。

Ian J. Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He practised psychiatry in London and Edinburgh before moving to academic psychology, where his principal research interests include human mental abilities, the effects of ageing and medical conditions on mental skills, and the impact of cognitive ability on people's lives. He is Director of the Lothian Birth Cohort studies and is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books, including Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain (OUP, 2000), and is the winner of several international awards for his research on human intelligence and personality.