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Journal of Intelligence, Volume 13, Issue 9

2025 September - 19 articles

Cover Story: We report a study that explored the influence of a short, 10-minute mindfulness exercise on sustained attention, attentional inhibition, and convergent thinking. Participants who completed the mindfulness session responded faster and made fewer errors on tasks measuring sustained attention and attentional inhibition when compared to an active control group. However, participants who engaged in mindfulness practice showed no improvement in their convergent thinking on creative problem-solving tasks (rebus puzzles). Although these findings suggest that the benefits of brief mindfulness practice are confined to enhanced attentional control, further research with longer or repeated mindfulness practice and with other convergent thinking tasks may reveal improvements in aspects of creative cognition that often draw upon attentional processes. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,741 Views
27 Pages

19 September 2025

This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and thematic analysis of social and emotional learning (SEL) research in primary education, aiming to map its evolution, key contributors, and conceptual structure. Drawing on 915 peer-reviewed article...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,968 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2025

While theoretical frameworks posit mindfulness as a catalyst for wisdom development, longitudinal evidence remains scarce. This study examines the developmental trajectory of wisdom during emerging adulthood and investigates the intra-person and with...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1,418 Views
14 Pages

19 September 2025

In most Western societies, intelligence testing has evolved beyond simple measures of language and numerical abilities. Although these measures are valuable in predicting academic achievement and career success, it is widely recognized that modern in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,227 Views
12 Pages

Creative Self-Efficacy, Academic Performance and the 5Cs of Positive Youth Development in Spanish Undergraduates

  • Diego Gomez-Baya,
  • Francisco Jose Garcia-Moro,
  • Gina Tomé and
  • Margarida Gaspar de Matos

17 September 2025

(1) Background: Creative self-efficacy is associated with better psychological well-being and academic performance in adolescent and youth samples. Positive youth development is a strength-based model of youth transition to adulthood, which states th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,141 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2025

There remains little understanding of how short-term mindfulness interventions influence creative cognition. We report an experiment that examined the impact of a brief mindfulness intervention on sustained attention, attentional inhibition, and conv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,844 Views
17 Pages

Objective Assessment of Cognition for Detecting Subjective Cognitive Decline Is More Accurate than Subjective Estimations: The Role of Trait Affect

  • Nikoleta Frantzi,
  • Despina Moraitou,
  • Eudokia Emmanouilidou,
  • Eleni Poptsi,
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias,
  • Andreas L. Symeonidis,
  • Georgia Papantoniou,
  • Maria Sofologi,
  • Elvira Masoura and
  • Magda Tsolaki
  • + 2 authors

11 September 2025

The early identification of cognitive decline is crucial for well-timed intervention and diagnosis, particularly in the context of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this study, we investigated the complex interplay between trait affect,...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,481 Views
21 Pages

11 September 2025

Metaphorical competence—the capacity to comprehend and produce metaphors in a second language (L2)—is essential for nuanced, accurate, and contextually appropriate English usage. Synthesizing 40 independent studies (N = 15,786), this meta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,289 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2025

We present a new measure of emotion perception called PAGE (Perceiving AI Generated Emotions). The test includes 20 emotions, expressed by ethnically diverse faces, spanning a wide range of ages. We created stimuli with generative AI, illustrating a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,320 Views
33 Pages

Implicit learning describes learning from experience that is not available to conscious awareness. The question of whether some individuals are better implicit learners than others has suggested and may contribute to difference in performance among e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,042 Views
16 Pages

The Nature and Measure of Critical Thinking: The PACIER Framework and Assessment

  • Hyo Jeong Shin,
  • Seewoo Li,
  • Ji Hoon Ryoo,
  • Alina von Davier,
  • Todd Lubart and
  • Salah Khalil

Based on the PACIER model of critical thinking, involving six facets for critical thinking (Problem solving, Analysis, Creative thinking, Interpretation, Evaluation, Reasoning), the empirical results of a new computer-based assessment (PACIER Critica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,463 Views
20 Pages

With the rapid evolution of technology and the continuous deepening of digital transformation in education, personalized and adaptive learning have emerged as inevitable trends in the educational landscape. This study focuses on a Computerized Adapti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,831 Views
16 Pages

A strong sense of school belonging is essential for students’ academic achievement, emotional well-being, and overall development. This study explores the role of emotional intelligence and the social environment in shaping students’ sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,713 Views
17 Pages

Creative and Critical Thinking and Modelling: Confluences and Implications for Science Teaching

  • Marta Gómiz-Aragón,
  • María del Mar Aragón-Méndez,
  • Rui Marques Vieira,
  • Celina Tenreiro-Vieira and
  • José María Oliva

Contemporary society demands the development of creative critical thinking (CCT) as a fundamental objective in science education. However, there appears to be a dissonance between this recognised need and its actual implementation in educational prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,781 Views
28 Pages

Effects of Proctoring on Online Intelligence Measurement: A Literature Overview and an Empirical Study

  • Vsevolod Scherrer,
  • Nicolai Petry,
  • Moritz Breit,
  • Julian Urban,
  • Julian Preuß and
  • Franzis Preckel

Remote intelligence testing has multiple advantages, but cheating is possible without proper supervision. Proctoring aims to address this shortcoming, yet prior research on its effects has primarily investigated reasoning tasks, in which cheating is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,266 Views
23 Pages

Emotional Intelligence and the Big Five as Predictors of Students’ Performance in Collaborative Problem Solving

  • Ana Altaras,
  • Zorana Jolić Marjanović,
  • Kristina Mojović Zdravković,
  • Ksenija Krstić and
  • Tijana Nikitović

We examined the effects of emotional intelligence (EI) and the Big Five on students’ performance in collaborative problem solving (CPS). 162 secondary-school students completed the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test and the Big Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,107 Views
22 Pages

In spite of the ever-growing body of research in achievement goal profiles and their contribution to performance, the research on young children is quite limited. This study examined achievement goal profiles related to mathematics and literacy perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,765 Views
19 Pages

Learning Natural Categories: Effects of Interleaving Practice in Children and Young Adults

  • Xiaoxiao Dong,
  • Xiaoxiao He,
  • Lingyu Fang,
  • Qiang Xing and
  • Rongxia Ren

While interleaved learning has been shown to enhance young adults’ acquisition of confusable natural categories, its effects on children’s natural category learning remain underexplored. The present study investigated the effects of study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,740 Views
18 Pages

This study examined the neural characteristics of belief-bias reasoning in order to reveal the neurocognitive basis of critical thinking. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy was utilized to capture the real-time brain hemodynamic activity of 74 col...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,471 Views
14 Pages

Intelligence, academic achievement and an unfavorable discrepancy between them (i.e., underachievement) have been proposed to influence students’ subjective well-being. However, previous research on these effects remains scarce and inconsistent...

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