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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| author | Jens Egeland |
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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 | doaj.art-c56f4a04e66041a8a541deebe6a796d82022-12-22T00:50:46ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-01-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027409616Emotion Perception in Members of Norwegian MensaJens EgelandAre 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027/fullsuperior intelligenceemotion recognitionEmoBioMensapositive manifold |
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| 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 | superior intelligence emotion recognition EmoBio Mensa positive manifold |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00027/full |
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