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Theory of Adaptive Intelligence

Our latest work on adaptive competence is based on my theory of adaptive intelligence (Sternberg, 2019, in press-a,b,c). The basic idea of the theory is that we no longer can afford to define intelligence merely as g or IQ. Doing so has been a disaster—literally, not merely figuratively. At the same time that IQs have “benefited” from the 30-point increase of the 20th century, the world has been coping—or often failing adequately to cope--with disasters that are perhaps unprecedented in human history. These disasters include human-induced global warming, air and water pollution that are killing millions of people, income disparity that has resulted in staggering gains for the wealthiest 1% of the population at the expense of everyone else, hunger, poverty, a global pandemic, and a country torn apart (my own—the United States by deliberate and cynical manipulation on the part of politicians and their self-serving sycophants), to name a few problems. Where exactly have the high IQs of our

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Robert Sternberg

Overview

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology in the Cornell Human Ecology college at Cornell University. He was previously Provost, Senior Vice President, Regents Professor of Psychology and Education, and George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair of Ethical Leadership at Oklahoma State University. He also is Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University.

He was previously Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Education at Tufts University, and before that, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. He is a Past President of the American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, as well as Treasurer of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He has been Editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological

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Robert Sternberg

American psychologist (born 1949)

Robert J. Sternberg (born December 8, 1949)^[1] is an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is a Professor of Human Development at Cornell University.^[2]

Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University, under advisor Gordon Bower. He holds thirteen honorary doctorates from two North American, one South American, one Asian, and nine European universities, and additionally holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. He is a Distinguished Associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge.

Among his major contributions to psychology, the most notable are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate, and leadership. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sternberg as the 60th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.^[3]

Early life

Sternberg was born on December 8, 1949, to a Jewish family,