Hereditary genius: An inquiry into its laws and consequences.

Galton, Francis

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“…The modern human sciences developed two distinct forms of normalization. Historians of 19th century statistics (e.g., Gigerenzer, Swijtink, Porter, & Daston, 1989;Hacking, 1990) have distinguished Durkheim's socially conservative understanding of the average as the ideal -flanked by symmetrical pathological deviations -from Galton's socially progressive notion of people of unusual intelligence as cherished exceptions that might drag society forward from its currently mediocre state (e.g., Galton, 1869). Indeed, there is some evidence that Foucault understood this distinction.…”

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From genius inverts to gendered intelligence: Lewis Terman and the power of the norm.

Hegarty¹

2007

History of Psychology

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The histories of "intelligence" and "sexuality" have largely been narrated separately. In Lewis Terman's work on individual differences, they intersect. Influenced by G. Stanley Hall, Terman initially described atypically accelerated development as problematic. Borrowing from Galton, Terman later positioned gifted children as nonaverage but ideal. Attention to the gifted effeminate subjects used to exemplify giftedness and gender nonconformity in Terman's work shows the selective instantiation of nonaverageness as pathological a propos of effeminacy, and as ideal a propos of high intelligence. Throughout, high intelligence is conflated with health, masculinity, and heterosexuality. Terman's research located marital sexual problems in women's bodies, further undoing possibilities for evaluating heterosexual men's practices as different from a normative position. Terman's research modernized Galton's imperialist vision of a society lead by a male cognitive elite. Psychologists continue to traffic in his logic that values and inculcates intelligence only in the service of sexual and gender conformity.

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Section: The Power Of the Normmentioning

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From genius inverts to gendered intelligence: Lewis Terman and the power of the norm.

Hegarty¹

2007

History of Psychology

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“…Beginning with Galton (1869Galton ( , 1962 there has been a consensus among intelligence researchers and psychometricians that there is a general cognitive ability, important to many pursuits in life inclusive of academic and work achievements as well as developmental (life-history) trajectories. This general dimension was empirically validated through factor analytic techniques by Spearman (1904), who identified high positive intercorrelations among many different facets of intelligence.…”

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A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

Sefcek

Figueredo

2010

Biodemography and Social Biology

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“…Although archival methods constitute the oldest scientific approach in psychology (see, e.g., Galton, 1869;Quételet, 1835Quételet, /1968, this methodology does not represent a mainstream technique in the discipline (Simonton, 2000). Therefore, I should point out that more standard methods can help tease out the psychological foundations of cinematic success, including how those foundations help address marketing issues.…”

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Cinematic success criteria and their predictors: The art and business of the film industry

Simonton

2009

Psychology and Marketing

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The author reviewed the empirical research on the factors underlying the success of feature-length narrative films. After specifying some methodological caveats, the review examined the three main criteria by which a film's success can be evaluated: critical evaluations (both early and post-theatrical run), financial performance (including first weekend and gross), and movie awards (including dramatic, visual, technical, and music categories). To what extent do these criteria represent distinct aesthetic and economic assessments? The review then turned to the various predictors of these success criteria. How is success connected with the film's production and distribution characteristics? To what extent do the predictors converge and diverge across alternative criteria? The article then closes with a discussion of some psychological issues raised by the reviewed findings.

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Hereditary genius: An inquiry into its laws and consequences.

Cited by 1,642 publications

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From genius inverts to gendered intelligence: Lewis Terman and the power of the norm.

From genius inverts to gendered intelligence: Lewis Terman and the power of the norm.

A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

Cinematic success criteria and their predictors: The art and business of the film industry

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