Study of national intellect: indirect criteria and their association with instant measuring sets

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Abstract

The review regards the link between indices of national intellect and a number of socio-economic, demographic and other indices (average income, life expectancy and so on).These interrelations are analyzed at different population levels: population of the country, population of a region inside the country and so on. For the majority of the reviewed indices average and high levels of correlation with national intellect are typical. In some studies there is evidence for cause and effect character of these correlations.

General Information

Keywords: national intellect; life expectancy; infant mortality; crime-rate; birth rate; education achievements; ideological orientations

Journal rubric: General Psychology

Article type: review article

For citation: Grigoriev A.A. Study of national intellect: indirect criteria and their association with instant measuring sets [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sovremennaia zarubezhnaia psikhologiia = Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2012. Vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 40–49. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Andrei A. Grigoriev, Doctor of Philology, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Psychology and Psychophysiology of Creative Activity, Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6186-2320, e-mail: andrey4002775@yandex.ru

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