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Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa
Are people with superior intelligence also superior in interpreting the emotions of others? Some studies find that an underlying g-factor links all mental processes leading to an expectation of a positive answer to the question, while other studies find that there is a cost to giftedness. No previou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30728794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027 |
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author | Egeland, Jens |
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description | Are people with superior intelligence also superior in interpreting the emotions of others? Some studies find that an underlying g-factor links all mental processes leading to an expectation of a positive answer to the question, while other studies find that there is a cost to giftedness. No previous study have tested social cognition among highly gifted, or the Mensa society specifically. The study measures emotion recognition in 63 members of the Norwegian Mensa and 101 community controls. The Mensa group had a higher total score on the EmoBio test and was specifically better at differentiating the anger emotion, otherwise hypothesized to be mediated by subcortical processes. There was no difference in heterogeneity between the groups, contrary to the expectation of an autistic subgroup in Mensa. The study indicate that the positive manifold extends also to social cognition, and runs counter to the concept of a cost to giftedness. |
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spelling | pubmed-63514592019-02-06 Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa Egeland, Jens Front Psychol Psychology Are people with superior intelligence also superior in interpreting the emotions of others? Some studies find that an underlying g-factor links all mental processes leading to an expectation of a positive answer to the question, while other studies find that there is a cost to giftedness. No previous study have tested social cognition among highly gifted, or the Mensa society specifically. The study measures emotion recognition in 63 members of the Norwegian Mensa and 101 community controls. The Mensa group had a higher total score on the EmoBio test and was specifically better at differentiating the anger emotion, otherwise hypothesized to be mediated by subcortical processes. There was no difference in heterogeneity between the groups, contrary to the expectation of an autistic subgroup in Mensa. The study indicate that the positive manifold extends also to social cognition, and runs counter to the concept of a cost to giftedness. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6351459/ /pubmed/30728794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027 Text en Copyright © 2019 Egeland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Egeland, Jens Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title | Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title_full | Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title_fullStr | Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title_short | Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian Mensa |
title_sort | emotion perception in members of norwegian mensa |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30728794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027 |
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