Forty-Year Secular Trends in Cognitive Abilties

By T. Teasdale, D. R. Owen. 2000

93 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Statistics and Probability

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. D. R. Owen
2. T. Teasdale
3. J. Flynn
4. Clancy Blair
5. Diane F. Halpern
6. Eric Turkheimer
7. Richard E. Nisbett
8. W. Dickens

In Genetics

1. D. R. Owen
2. T. Teasdale
3. Andreas Demetriou

In Statistics and Probability

1. D. R. Owen
2. T. Teasdale
3. Joshua Aronson
4. Diane F. Halpern
5. Richard E. Nisbett
6. Eric Turkheimer
7. Jarkko Hautamäki
8. Clancy Blair

Citations in the corpus

• A long-term rise and recent decline in intelligence test performance: The Flynn Effect in reverse (2005, background): “In the present study we update our earlier reports to include the time period up to and including 2004, particularly to investigate whether in Denmark, as in Norway, the Flynn Effect has ended.”
• Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect (2008, background): “…gains in test scores, particularly at the low end of the distribution, through the 1960's and 1970's (Teasdale & Owen, 1987, 1989), that by the 1990's they had substantially plateaued (Teasdale & Owen, 2000) and indeed have begun to decline somewhat into the present decade (Teasdale & Owen, 2005).”
• Can we be intelligent about intelligence?: Why education needs the concept of plastic general ability (2007, background): “…quality education (Sundet et al. (in press) present evidence that gains have ceased in Norway and Emanuelsson, Reuterberg, and Svensson (1993) and Teasdale and Owen (2000) present evidence that gains have flattened since the late 1980s in Sweden and Denmark, respectively), the evidence that…”
• Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012, background): “In the Turkheimer et al. (2003) study, the correlation of SES with IQ was .”
• The end of the Flynn effect?: A study of secular trends in mean intelligence test scores of Norwegian conscripts during half a century (2004, background): “Teasdale and Owen (1989, 2000) found that the secular gains mainly were caused by lower prevalence of low scorers.”