People who are high on Openness to experience are generally receptive to entertaining new and challenging facets of cultural life, as well as personal thoughts and emotions (McCrae & Costa, 2003), and ...

A UNIGE team has found that a class of drugs can protect the development of intellectual abilities in people at risk of psychosis, if prescribed before adolescence One person in 2000 suffers from a ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene associated with human intellectual ability is necessary for normal memory formation in mice. The study shows that mice with only one copy of the gene replay ...

Children's personalities may influence how they perform in math and reading, according to a new study. Children's personalities may influence how they perform in math and reading, according to a study ...

Mary Meeker, a psychologist who developed a widely used program to test and strengthen the intellectual abilities of children, died of breast cancer Oct. 4 in Vida, Ore. She was 82. Meeker’s program ...

Brain size matters for intellectual ability and bigger is better, McMaster University researchers have found. The study, led by neuroscientist Sandra Witelson, a professor in the Michael G. DeGroote ...