Reconceptualizing Intelligence

Dysrationalia as an Intuition Pump

Bibliographic Data

ID9733830
AuthorsKeith E Stanovich (0000-0001-7395-329X, Department of Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6. He specializes in the psychology of reading and critical thinking, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume23
Issue4
Pages11-21
Publication date1994-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x023004011
OpenAlexW2036988417
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited122

The concept of intelligence is usually conceived of and operationalized in terms of cognitive capacities—relatively fixed information processing operations that determine the efficiency with which preestablished goals are achieved. Intelligence, as operationalized in standardized assessment instruments, has not included the measurement of dispositions toward rational thought and behavior (i.e., the thought processes that fix beliefs proportionately to evidence and that maintain consistency among beliefs). This contrasts with the vernacular use of the term intelligence, which does subsume dispositions toward rationality. It is argued that educational researchers and social scientists should begin to consider the consequences of the discrepancy between scientific/professional and vernacular concepts of intelligence. In order to provoke thought about the discrepancy and the effects that it has on educational practice and social policy, it is proposed that the field consider the implications of a new psychological concept, dysrationalia: the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Intuition · Operationalization · Rationality · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Emotional Intelligence and Performance · Psychology · Social Psychology

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