What emotional intelligence is, what it’s not, and three questions that will help you improve yours.

Asking people to exert more effort on a test of mental ability does not actually improve their score. A recent study ...

In my work advising trading and sales leaders on building high-performing teams, I've noticed how Wall Street is obsessed with intelligence—quantitative, analytical, algorithmic. I once partnered with ...

David Hambrick’s recent New York Times opinion piece—“I.Q. Points for Sale, Cheap”—warns that we should be skeptical of the recent studies that claim to show that intelligence can be improved through ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...