The Role of General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: Why There Cannot Be a Debate

Abstract. General cognitive ability is one of the best predictors of job performance, but applicant reactions are often poor. In two samples, we experimentally tested game-framing, the labeling of an ability test as a “game” without changing its content, as a way to improve applicant reactions. Results were analyzed through the lens of applicant reactions theory. Game-framing was associated with decreases in perceived length, perceived length was positively related to test motivation, and in one sample perceived length mediated the relationship between game-framing and test motivation. The direction of the relationship between motivation and perceived length was observed in both samples and opposite that proposed by reactions theory.

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The role of general cognitive ability in moderating the relation of adverse life events to emotional and behavioural problems

British Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02106.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 104 (1) ◽

pp. 130-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Eirini Flouri ◽

Stella Mavroveli ◽

Constantina Panourgia

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Life Events ◽

Behavioural Problems ◽

General Cognitive Ability ◽

Emotional And Behavioural Problems ◽

Adverse Life Events

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Sex Differences in Childhood Associations between DNA Markers and General Cognitive Ability

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.28.3.161 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 161-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rosalind Arden ◽

Nicole Harlaar ◽

Robert Plomin

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽

Cognitive Ability ◽

Dna Markers ◽

Community Sample ◽

Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽

General Cognitive Ability ◽

Single Nucleotide ◽

The Difference

Abstract. An association between intelligence at age 7 and a set of five single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) has been identified and replicated. We used this composite SNP set to investigate whether the associations differ between boys and girls for general cognitive ability at ages 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, and 10 years. In a longitudinal community sample of British twins aged 2-10 (n > 4,000 individuals), we found that the SNP set is more strongly associated with intelligence in males than in females at ages 7, 9, and 10 and the difference is significant at 10. If this finding replicates in other studies, these results will constitute the first evidence of the same autosomal genes acting differently on intelligence in the two sexes.

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