What is it about?
This is a book about personality and intelligence. Personality is what a person typically does, thinks, and feels. Intelligence is what a person is cognitively capable of. How are personality and intelligence related, and why? Using data from millions of individuals and thousands of studies from around the world, we examine their components at an unprecedented level of depth to uncover hidden connections between these fundamental domains of human individuality.
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Why is it important?
These personality-intelligence connections illuminate the constellations that guide our behavior as we traverse ever-changing environments. These patterns harken back to our evolutionary roots and have profound implications for humanity's present and future. From your own life to diverse societies to the future of our species, this book illuminates deep truths about who we are and why we are.
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Piecing together this mosaic took over a decade of meticulous effort. The resulting 3,500+ meta-analyses each served as a pixel that together revealed the broader constellations of traits and abilities of human diversity. We undertook this massive study because we not only wanted to understand how these core pillars of individuality are related but also why.
Kevin Stanek
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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This page is a summary of: Of Anchors & Sails: Personality-Ability Trait Constellations, November 2023, University of Minnesota,
DOI: 10.24926/9781946135988.
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