Journal of Intelligence | Knowns and Unknowns about Cognitive Excellence
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1st Journal of Intelligence Webinar
Knowns and Unknowns about Cognitive Excellence
Research into characteristics of gifted individuals has shown that exceptionally high cognitive abilities are typically associated with desirable life outcomes. Large-scale efforts such as the Terman study or more recently the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) consistently yielded positive correlations between cognitive abilities and, for instance, job prestige, salary, or self-reported life-satisfaction but negative ones with morbidity or mortality. Recent evidence, however, indicates the cognitive ability and desirable life outcome link may not be entirely unequivocal. In fact, some findings suggest that high cognitive abilities may conceivably represent a risk factor for cer-tain types of physical or psychological conditions (e.g., overexcitabilites). In the present webinar, two expert speakers discuss benefits and costs of being gifted and present novel empirical evidence about prevalences of physical and psychological overexcitabilities in two large samples of gifted individuals.
Date: 24 June 2022
Time: 10:00 am CEST | 4:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 822 8095 6050
Webinar Secretariat: jintell.webinar@mdpi.com
Chair
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
Jakob heads the Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment Unit at the School of Psychology at the University of Vienna. In his research, he focusses on human intelligence, its cognitive bases, and generational IQ test score changes (i.e., the Flynn-effect).
Invited Speakers
Department of Business and Media, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
Tanja Gabriele Baudson is a professor of Differential Psychology and psychological giftedness research at the Fresenius University Heidelberg. Her research interests include giftedness, intelligence, creativity, and identity development of gifted individuals. She has developed two IQ tests, edited books, and authored numerous papers, book chapters, and articles for the gen-eral public. In 2018, she received the "Professor of the Year" award by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband). She received the Men-sa Foundation's "Award for Excellence in Research" in 2014 and 2016.
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
I am a pre-doctoral researcher currently working on the associations of intelligence and various aspects of physical and mental health. In addition, my research interests are meta-analysis and statistics – I like tinkering in R. In my leisure time I like to dust off my road bike or go on a scary amusement park ride in Vienna’s Prater.
Webinar Content
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
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Chair Introduction Chair Dr. Jakob Pietschnig |
10:00 - 10:10 am |
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Prof. Dr. Tanja Gabriele Baudson The ambivalence of being gifted: Representative findings from Germany and what they mean |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
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Mr. Jonathan Fries Gifted individuals exhibit elevated rates of mental health troubles: Evidence from an international survey of MENSA members |
10:40 - 11:10 am |
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Q&A Session |
11:10 - 11:40 am |
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Closing of Webinar Chair Dr. Jakob Pietschnig |
11:40 - 11:50 am |
Relevant SI
Guest Editors: Dr. Jakob Pietschnig and Prof. Dr. Tanja Gabriele Baudson
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2022
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