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Robert J. Sternberg , an influential psychologist and psychometrician known for his extensive work on intelligence , has published an article: “ What is intelligence, really? The futile search for a Holy Grail ” (2024). In this piece, Sternberg, Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, rethinks the nature of intelligence and criticizes the ongoing search for an all-encompassing definition of intelligence.

  A recent study by Renoux et al. (2024) sheds interesting light on how preschoolers think about differences in school performance. This study, conducted among 610 French preschoolers, reveals that children tend to pointed to inherent factors (such as intelligence) rather than extrinsic factors (such as access to educational resources) as explanations for why some children perform better at school than others. Read more about what this inherence bias means and what its consequences are.