Robert J. Sternberg - The Nature of Human Intelligence

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This book is dedicated to the memory of Earl Hunt, a pioneer in the field of intelligence and a scholar whose influence only will become stronger in the years to come .

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). The rest, as they say, is history. Today, the field of intelligence research is about as active as any field could be. Indeed, its form seems to change every few years, or, arguably, every few months!

), but these handbooks were intended to be comprehensive reviews rather than updates regarding current research on particular topics. Yet, the field continued to advance rapidly.

So I recently decided to edit a volume of updates on intelligence research. In the past, I had just chosen colleagues to write whose work I admired because of its impact on the field. But at the same time, I realized that my selections were always colored by my own biases about what kinds of research were worthwhile to the field. Those biases led to some kinds of work being included, but not others. This time I wanted to do things a bit differently.

When I started this volume, I recently had coedited a volume of essays by eminent to have made the highest-impact contributions to the study of intelligence.

had these scholars lived and been willing to contribute.

are many excellent scholars, especially ones early in their careers, who have not written for it. But this certainly will not be the last edited book of advances in the field of human intelligence, and later volumes (edited by others) doubtless will include approaches that may be underrepresented here.

Although intelligence always has been important to society, one might argue that, in some respects, was a good question to ask. I hope the essays in this book provide some enlightenment as to the answer!