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Mental Ability Books
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Upkar's Mental Ability Test* (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Quantitative Aptitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 3.98 — 676 ratings — published 2010
A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.20 — 128 ratings — published
Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing : Spiritual Preparation for an Emerging World (New Knowledge Library)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.72 — 90 ratings — published 1999
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,237 ratings — published 2011
Focusing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,664 ratings — published 1978
Tao Te Ching: The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.30 — 178 ratings — published 2011
The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,791 ratings — published 2006
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,063 ratings — published 1999
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,544 ratings — published 1978
The Presence Process: A Healing Journey into Present Moment Awareness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,124 ratings — published 2005
The Bad Seed (The Food Group #1)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.31 — 41,336 ratings — published 2017
The Cool Bean (The Food Group #3)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,599 ratings — published 2019
What If Everybody Thought That? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 3.85 — 782 ratings — published 2019
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,850 ratings — published 2019
Islandborn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,801 ratings — published 2018
What If Everybody Did That? (What If Everybody? Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,307 ratings — published 1990
A Modern Approach To Verbal & Non Verbal Reasoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 4.12 — 598 ratings — published 2012
Mind Hacking Secrets: Control Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Reclaim Your Attention, and Unlock Your Limitless Potential (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mental-ability)
avg rating 3.62 — 16 ratings — published
“When studies using mental ability test scores from children are considered, the heritability of mental ability is typically found to be about .40, and the effect of the common or shared environment is found to be almost as strong, about .35. In contrast, when studies using mental ability test scores from adults (or older adolescents) are considered, estimates of the heritability of mental ability are much higher, typically about .65, whereas estimates of common or shared environment effects are much lower, probably under .20 (see review by Haworth et al., 2010). These findings indicate that differences among children in their levels of mental ability are attributable almost as much to their common environment—that is, to features of their family or household circumstances—as to their genetic inheritances. However, the findings also suggest that as children grow up, the differences among them in mental ability become less strongly related to the features of their common environments, and more strongly related to their genetic inheritances. In other words, the effect on one's mental ability of the family or household in which one is reared tends to become less important as one grows up, so that by adulthood one's level of mental ability is heavily dependent on one's genetic characteristics. It is as if one's level of mental ability—relative to that of other persons of the same age—can be raised (or lowered) during childhood by a particularly good (or poor) home environment, but then gradually returns to the level that one's genes tend to produce.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
― Individual Differences and Personality
“Another socially important variable associated with mental ability is that of marriage, or more specifically that of who marries whom. A consistent finding in several studies of the characteristics of spouses is that there is a tendency for spouses to be similar in some—but not all—aspects of mental ability; in other words, some aspects of mental ability do show substantial “assortative mating.”
For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks—a vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about .45.
But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about .10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).
Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation—as you might guess—is that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks—a vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about .45.
But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about .10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).
Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation—as you might guess—is that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Individual Differences and Personality
