Intelligence: Bibliography

Intelligence

Bibliography

This is a short list of references on human intelligence and intelligence testing.

Eysenck, Hans

Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Cambridge Mass: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Eysenck explains "genius" in terms of his personality model.

Feldman, David Henry, with Lynn T. Goldsmith

Nature's Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991). A study of six prodigies.

Galton, Francis

Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (London: Macmillan, 1869). A very early treatment of the distribution of intelligence according to the normal curve.

Herrnstein, Richard J., and Charles Murray

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: The Free Press, 1994). The book that outraged liberal America, providing evidence that intelligence is, in large part, hereditary and that there are real differences between ethnic groups in intelligence. The authors' scientific conclusions are not even controversial in the field of psychometrics. Their policy recommendations are less objective.

Hollingworth, Leta S.

Children above 180 IQ (Stanford-Binet): Origin and Development. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1942). A pioneering study of highly-gifted children (equivalent to four-sigma-plus on deviation IQ tests).

Jensen, Arthur R.

Bias in Mental Testing (New York: The Free Press, 1980). Jensen outlines the basics of mental testing theory and goes on to demonstrate that IQ tests are not ethnically biased but reflect real cognitive differences.
The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998). Jensen's definitive explanation of what psychometricians call g, the general factor in intelligence, which accounts for the lion's share of the variance in scores on all types of cognitive tests.

Karlsson, Jon L.

Genetics of Human Mentality (New York: Praeger, 1991). Karlsson reports on his work on the genetic relationship between intelligence and alcohol and schizophrenia.

Lehrke, Robert

Sex Linkage of Intelligence: The X-Factor (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997). Lehrke explains the genetics of sex differences.

Vernon, Philip E.

Intelligence: Heredity and Environment (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979). An examination of the nature of intelligence and the factors influencing its development.

See also "Intelligence and Testing Bibliography" (Vincent W. Hevern) <http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/testbib.html>.