Brain Books discussion -- What Intelligence Tests Miss

Why do "smart" people do so many "stupid" things? Keith Stanovich shows that what we generally think of as "intelligence," and how it is measured on tests, fails to include abilities for rational thought--what we might call good critical thinking. Yet these abilities can be identified, examined, and evaluated. Stanovich extends standard models of brain/mind (including the much-discussed "dual systems" model of Kanovich, Haidt, and others) to examine the need to decouple from automatic, autonomous functions before one can genuinely think and reflect. (If you missed the discussion of this book in the Jeff Center Group in January 2013, you can join this discussion at 1:30 pm in the Ashland Public Library, Guanajuato Room.) -- Sandra Coyner